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Windows Debate

    26-Nov-90 18:18:57
Sb: #4151-Windows Debate
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: Jane R. Hansen 72377,3621
If a program asks for bitmap fonts through Windows calls, as all Windows programs must do, then Bitstream's add-on support and Adobe's add-on support works just fine in any program, unmodified. Unfortunately, on the Amiga, the method by which you ask for fonts is "backwards" in this respect. You ask for a list of fonts from the system, and then you're supposed to choose from them… as opposed to asking for something, and letting the system (or an add-on font system) for a certain font, size and weight. So it's not possible to make an ATM for the Amiga, until they change Intuition. As we've agreed, any given program can strike up a relationship with any font company, as Gold Disk and Soft Logik have done. On the Mac, you drop something in your system drawer and it's installed. Easy as pie.