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- From: idg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (I.D. Griffiths)
- Subject: Re: Thanks for Help ! and some new ?'s
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.122144.4557@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Keywords: VIDC, FontManager
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- References: <1jph4kINNqur@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1993Jan24.125726.13112@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:21:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.125726.13112@cs.nott.ac.uk>, smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
- |> In article <1jph4kINNqur@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig06@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Goetz) writes:
- |> >Does the FontManager 2.44 rely on some 'hardware configuration' ?
- |>
- |> It's interesting that CC does not supply version 2.44 with any of its software.
- |> Even Artworks is supplied with version 2.42 - I doubt if this is for technical
- |> reasons, more likely that they would have to pay Acorn more to distribute
- |> version 2.44.
-
- Don't know about that, but they really wanted to supply Artworks with Ro3's
- font manager. Acorn wouldn't let them, which is why it needs the FontDraw
- module loaded. Incidentally, there's an interresting bug in Artworks printing
- to an Ro2 printer driver (e.g. Turbodrivers) under Ro3: When printing sideways,
- it forgets that Ro2 drivers can at least rotate through 90 degrees, and decides
- to render all fonts itself using fontdraw. If there is any reasonable amount
- of text on the page this takes forever! Generally faster to make shapes on
- everythin...
-
-
- |> Also, can anyone comment on stories that there are RISC OS 3.10 ROM sets
- |> in circulation which contain different versions of the FontManager? I
- |> have had great trouble printing with my LaserDirect using the built-in
- |> fontmanager (not FastText), and have heard that Acorn brought out a
- |> newer fontmanager which fixes this problem without telling anybody.
- |>
- |> Simon
-
- Seems very unlikely, I don't think Ro3.10 has been altered since April.
- Possibly if you acquired some of the EPROMed versions from Acorn before the
- release date there would be a difference.
-
-
- Ian Griffiths
-