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Article #3336Re: Three new "open" font formats...
From: Robert Claeson
Date: Sat, 27 May 1989 08:12
Date: Sat, 27 May 1989 08:12
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In article <7438@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Sun, Adobe, and Apple have all announced the "opening" of their
>outline font technologies. Each one has its own features and
>drawbacks:
Mr. Gilmore then describes the merits and drawbacks with each format
and gives his comments on them.
>It's my analysis that these companies talked to each other, but none
>of them was willing to let the others co-control their format, so
>eventually all three were released.
>
>Any comments from the peanut gallery?
There will soon be four formats, I think... Microsoft is reportedly
working on their very own page description language that they eventually
hope will replace Adobe's PostScript as the de-facto standard (so what's
wrong with PostScript besides that Mr. Gates can't buy it?) It will
supposedly contain yet another outline font format.
--
Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!maxim!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Three new "open" font formats... Summary: Make that four, soon. Keywords: outline font format proprietary Message-ID: <719@maxim.erbe.se> Date: 27 May 89 08:12:33 GMT References: <7438@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: The Peanut Gallery? Lines: 25