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CGFonts and Such

    07-Jul-91 18:07:28
Sb: #27655-CGFonts and Such
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: Gary Brusanowski 70304,2516
As with most things, it seems the only possibility for getting something done involves ignoring Commodore, and cursing ourselves for believing they'd even come up with something adequate… I think there's room for a library that provides scaled fonts and outlines for any application, using Type 1. One limitation: the Amiga bitmap font format can't handle big fonts. Geeze, as bad as the early Mac… So you'd need to create a new bitmap font standard, probably, then work up a way to give programmers a way to interface to it so it could work on any screen type, then document it all and start convincing companies to pay you to use the technology. Thanks, CBM.