🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1657@basser.oz>, jaa@basser.oz (James Ashton) writes:
| I think you'll find that Apple made very sure that this sort of thing
| was extremely difficult to do

	Yes.

| (read impossible using postscript)

	No.

| and
| that Adobe and indirectly the copyright holders on the fonts used would
| have made sure of this also.  Otherwise any fool could get in and get
| bitmap copies of all the copyrighted fonts at any size.  This would be
| bad for Apple but very good for us.  In this vein, if by some miracle
| you have found a way (read extremely unlikely bug in the PostScript
| implementation) to do this:  please PLEASE tell me now so I can make
| a fortune pirating fonts.

	It is possible to access the VM image but it probably isn't
worth the effort unless either (1) the commercial product doesn't
do what you want (and I have never seen it, so...) or (2) you want
to compete with that commercial product.  If you just want to make
a fortune pirating the fonts and you think you can do this with
only the bitmap representation and not the outline format then why
not try an image scanner?  It is probably even less subject to suit.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*