Re: Font Technology Update

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From: Richard Sexton
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1989 04:12

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In article <12405@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
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>In the magazie _Computer Currents_ it is reported that Bitstream
>has cracked the Adobe font magic, and we can expect Adobe compatible
>fonts from them. Ones that look good at small sizes.

Yeah, well, *ahem*. Don't believe everything you read.

Bitstream call me back finally, today, and what they HAVE done is got
some of their fonts to work in an Adobe engine. (maybe they typed in
the example in the blue book, I don't know...).

What they havn't done is incorperated the Adobe ``hints''.

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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Font Technology Update
Summary: never mind
Keywords: Bitstream
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Date: 1 Mar 89 04:12:20 GMT
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