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Re: PostScript vs TrueType?

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From: Carl M. Fongheiser
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 1990 20:00
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In article <1990Aug14.124450.7262@ddsw1.MCS.COM> hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen) writes:
>Another question is compatibility. We've got a bunch of PostScript clones
>in-house for testing purposes, and they both failed to work with the font
>scaling code (and the more ironic thing is that one of them uses the Bauer
>PS clone that's the basis for Microsoft's TrueImage!). It's very important
>for this code to work on non-680x0-based controllers, now that Adobe has
>introduced many of these.

Yeah, and non-680x0 controllers have been out for years.  The DEC
PrintServer 40 is based on a MicroVAX, and it's been out for around
3 years now.

				Carl Fongheiser
				cmf@unix.cis.pitt.edu
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