Re: Windows at 30

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Bill,

Maybe, but most of us do not need that kind of screen candy. I have
tinkered with custom printer and screen bitmap fonts for quite a few
years, and when ATM became available for Win 3.0 that changed
everything. No more bitmaps, easily editable outlines (using simple
tools like Fontographer), good printing results every time. When Win 3.1
was introduced, the machines of that time choked on TT fonts, which were
too complicated to handle. While Win 3.0 was on the whole a fragile
system, Win 3.0 + ATM handled fonts much better than Win 3.1. There are
other complicated font systems like Agfa's that allow for even finer
tweaking than TT, but for desktop publishing Type 1 and its descendants
has been a boon.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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> TrueType [...] was capable of vastly better screen output than ATM,
> Postscript,