lil pointy things

Rick Gaskin rgaskin at wdt.net
Tue Apr 22 14:44:38 CDT 2008


Ah yes ATM those were the days..C4 had to have its ATM

Steve Mills wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2008, at 14:27:30, Rick Gaskin wrote:
>
>> actually i have two
>>
>> Freestyle_Script (adobe) what does FFIL mean??
>>
>> FreeScr a postscript outline font type 1 ...LWFN??
>
>
> 'FFIL' is a font suitcase that might contains bitmap and/or TrueType 
> versions of the font. 'LWFN' is a "LaserWriter" font, otherwise know 
> as a PostScript Type 1 outline font. Years ago, the Mac OS could only 
> display bitmap fonts onscreen. Then along came Adobe Type Manager 
> which could rasterize Type 1 fonts for onscreen use. Then (my timeline 
> might be a bit wrong) along came TrueType fonts and the ability for 
> the OS to rasterize those to the screen. Then ATM got "built into" the 
> OS. These days, I'm not sure if the bitmaps fonts are even used. They 
> might be, since common small size fonts like Monaco 9 that I see and 
> use daily still look like their perfect bitmap form and are not 
> antialiased.
>
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