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Subject: Fonts included with System 7.0
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Date: 26 Sep 89 22:02:02 GMT
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One other item of interest that I picked up from one of the articles
on the font wars; a representative from Linotype AG announced that his
company would support all three major formats, and said, "We are
producing 30 new typefaces a month now, and have licensed a full set
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
of fonts to Apple's System 7.".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This implies to me that when Apple ships System 7, we'll be getting
more than just a minimal sets of fonts (i.e. more than just Times,
Helvetica, Symbol, Courier).  Of course, I suppose there's a lot of
room for argument as to what constitutes a "full set".

Also, I wonder what will become of all of those old Apple bitmap fonts
that we have come to know and love (i.e. Geneva, Los Angeles, Cairo,
New York, London, etc.)  At the Mac Expo, an Apple engineer
demonstrating the outline font software showed an outline version of
San Francisco that he had done, basically just for laughs.  I wonder
if the others will get converted as well.

Can anyone from Apple shed any light on exactly what fonts we can
expect to be included with System 7 (or at least how many)?

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Mark Vita                              vita@crd.ge.com
General Electric CRD               	..!uunet!crd.ge.com!vita
Schenectady, NY