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A new version of the font manager employing "new-style outline fonts" was made available after the release of RISC OS,<ref name="acornuser198904_fonts">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser081-Apr89/page/n8/mode/1up | title=New fonts for DTP | work=Acorn User | date=April 1989 | access-date=3 May 2021 | pages=7 }}</ref> offering full support for the printing of scalable fonts, and was provided with Acorn Desktop Publisher.<ref name="acornuser198910">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser087-Oct89/page/n135/mode/2up | title=Hold the Font Page | work=Acorn User | date=October 1989 | access-date=14 April 2021 | last1=Bell | first1=Graham | pages=134–135 }}</ref> It was also made available separately and bundled with other applications.<ref name="acornuser199004_font">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser093-Apr90/page/n20/mode/1up | title=Acorn Customer Hotline | work=Acorn User | date=April 1990 | access-date=2 May 2021 | pages=19 }}</ref> This [[outline font]] manager provides support for the rendering of font outlines to bitmaps for screen and printer use, employing [[spatial anti-aliasing|anti-aliasing]] for on-screen fonts, utilising sub-pixel anti-aliasing and caching for small font sizes.<ref name="raine1991">{{ cite conference | url=https://archive.org/details/1989-proceedings-5th-comp-graphics-workshop/page/25/mode/1up | title=The Acorn Outline Font Manager | last1=Raine | first1=Neil | last2=Seal | first2=David | last3=Stoye | first3=William | last4=Wilson | first4=Roger | conference=Fifth Computer Graphics Workshop | ___location=Monterey, California | date=November 1989 | publisher=USENIX Association | pages=25–36 }}</ref> At the time of the introduction of Acorn's outline font manager, the developers of rival desktop systems were either contemplating or promising outline font support for still-unreleased products such as Macintosh [[System 7]] and [[OS/2]] version 2.<ref name="acornuser198911_mytype">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser088-Nov89/page/n69/mode/2up | title=My Type | work=Acorn User | date=November 1989 | access-date=7 May 2021 | last1=Bell | first1=Graham | pages=68–69 }}</ref>

Since 1994, in RISC OS 3.519, it has been possible to use an outline anti-aliased font in the WindowManager for UI elements, rather than the [[Bitmap fonts|bitmap system font]] from previous versions.<ref name="acorn_an253">{{ cite tech report | url=http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/docs/Acorn/AN/253.pdf | title=Acorn Computers Support Group Application Notice 253 – New features of RISC OS version 3.5 | publisher=Acorn Computers Limited | last1=Murphy | first1=Dean | date=29 March 1994 | access-date=2 March 2022 | issue=0.02 }}</ref> RISC OS 4 does not support [[Unicode]] but "RISC OS 5 provides a Unicode Font Manager which is able to display Unicode characters and accept text in [[UTF-8]], UTF-16 and UTF-32. Other parts of the RISC OS kernel and core modules support text described in UTF-8."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Unicode_in_RISC_OS|title=Unicode in RISC OS|work=riscos.info|access-date=28 April 2015|archive-date=11 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411221409/http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Unicode_in_RISC_OS|url-status=live}}</ref><!--

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