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Article #7368

Re: PostScript compatible printers

#7368
From: Curt
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 01:39
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In article <5122@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <1766@imagen.UUCP> geof@imagen.UUCP (Geoffrey Cooper) writes:
>>In article <5090@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>> So it works with Adobe fonts ?
>>
>>No. 
>This part I understand.
>> Adobe fonts are not part of PostScript.
>This I don't.  Adobe fonts may use secret stuff, but you cant really say
>they are not PostScipt
>> Look at News.
>They coldnt figure it out either, huh ?

In the package you receive with the fonts, It is illegal to break into the
fonts, or if you do, use any knowledge derived form that.  That is part of
the agreement when you open the package.

Its the legal aspects of it that generate the problem.  Not the technical

>Thats what I like about standards.

Standards!!?  They are only standard for Adobe's PostScript.  If you want to 
call that a standard, you better tell Webster.

>I already use QMS printer, so my real intrest is how different companies
>and handling font technology.

Do you mean font scaling technologies?
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From: curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curt )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: PostScript compatible printers
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Date: 4 Aug 88 01:39:36 GMT
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Reply-To: curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curt (Jutz) Jutzi)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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