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Re: Royal Fonts vs. ATM

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From: John Nelson
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 15:09
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In article <6523@wpi.wpi.edu> macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg) writes:
>PK> Surely everyone who has invested a great deal of money in Adobe
>PK> fonts will want to use both font types. Sure would be nice if
>PK> System 7 could display the Adobe fonts. Anyways, nice job Apple!
> 
>According to some reports that i've heard, System 7 MAY support Adobe fonts.
>At least Apple is willing to make the effort at doing that... whether this
>becomes a reality with the actual release of system 7, who knows...

Even if Apple doesn't support Adobe fonts in system 7, it's clear that
some enterprising hacker will write conversion programs to translate
Adobe fonts into Royal fonts and vica versa.  Possibly even some DEFS
to do it in the living operating system.

Wonder what the legalities of this are.



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From: jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Royal Fonts vs. ATM
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Date: 9 Jan 90 15:09:57 GMT
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