Re: Font opinions?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <6lha9f$sps$1@supernews.com>,
Clairemont High School  <clairmnt@n2.net> wrote:
>well, to the point, I am willing to loosen up & install more.
>so come the questions: w/  1 meg of ram free & plenty of hard
>drive space, any idea of a good limit to numbers of fonts to run?

   Fonts are semi-intelligently cached, though things definitely are
better with Pointless 2.x's much saner caching mechanisms. [Pointless
is commercian and for sale from Joe Kohn's Shareware Solutions II, see
http://www.crl.com/~joko ] You'll probably run into problems on the
stock GS with more than about 800K of fonts used in an open file.

>Are not too ornate and will look good on a LASERWRITER! 
>(as Venice does not, for example)

   Only fonts built into the Laserwriter's ROM will look good under
any and all circumstances. Pointless can help a lot by rendering
TrueType fonts on demand, but due to a stupid lack of foresight from
Apple (along the lines of "640K should be enough for everyone), the
largest that Pointless can feed a Laserwriter is 63-point fonts. [The
laserwriter wants fonts 4x larger than the GS's screen, and Apple's
Font Manager tops out at 255-point fonts.] As long as people don't
want huge text, use Pointless.

Nathan Mates

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