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From: tbandit@athena.mit.edu (Carlos E Reategui)
Subject: Re: StyleWriter printer
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In article <F5ED72BA0020142F@UALR.BITNET> RXBROWN@UALR.BITNET ("MR.FANTASTIC") writes:
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>problems with it when you are talking about using it with you Apple II.
>Frist it won't work with the // line simply because it uses TrueType fonts.

The printer is not a TrueType printer. All the font rendering is done on the
computer.  The TrueType init will work on most printers out there.

>Right now it only has four fonts, but that can be changed if you convert Post-

You cannot upload fonts to the StyleWriter.  You place the TrueType fonts in
your system and then the init takes care of the rest.

>What would be cool, is Apple implementing that technology into the // line if
>they can. I would think they could at least implement it into the GS.

Pretty much what TrueType does is to Patch the Font' manager so that it does
the font rendering instead of the standard doubling of dots to make larger
font sizes.

>
>Robert
>
>p.s. I can't remember the exact price, but I think the StyleWriter costs about
>$599.

LIst price is $599, street price is about 450 and student discount are around
375 (tahts what I paid for mine).


Carlos
tbandit@athena.mit.edu

