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Subject: Re: Demo ideas
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Date: 13 Jul 88 09:30:00 GMT
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Keith Rollin  writes:

>2) Font Previewer - there is one guy here who is working on a Font Stats
>program. It is his first GS program, so he is not coming along with it fast
>enough to get it out on the first disk. However, he does have it showing what
>the fonts look like (amoung other things). Hey! How about HodgePodge!?! that
>shows fonts. Granted, it is not the ideal Font Previewer program, but it'll do
>in a pinch.

Hodgepodge needs to have fonts in the /system/fonts directory of your boot
disk (I think). I already gave up swapping 150 font files to a system disk

>3) Make for APW. That certainly seems to be a big request. I think I have a
>copy of your program (there is a file in my directory called GSMake that does
>what you described), but the programmers working on APW will probably want to
>do their own. However, it may not happen for a while, as resources for APW are
>kinda scarce right now while we are working on the MPW IIGS cross-development
>system.
>
>If you have any other suggestions, let me know!

Duh, me is right dumb, but why spend time, money and sweat to develop a
cross-development system on the mac for the GS, instead of improving the GS
development system now that it has one ?

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