🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <37@fleet.UUCP> mel@.UUCP () writes:
>Yes it locks you to their fonts but they are of the highest quality available.
>Other manufacturers will be shipping product that conforms to their specs that
>will also work with ATM.  If you want to wait 1 year or more for the high
>end oriented 7.0 system from Apple fine.  I wonder how long after that it'll
>be before vendors (and Apple) will have the 500-1000 fonts that will be
>working with ATM by that time - maybe never?  Won't Apple be dependent on
>Adobe and others to supply their fonts in 7.0 quadratic spline format.


This is all true.  However, most people who desire nice typefaces
cannot afford Adobe fonts.  I personally would buy some Adobe fonts if
they were around $100.  However, at >=$200 a pop (discount), they are
just too much.  I would have liked to see the 'Plus Pack' priced
around $50.  However, Adobe needs to make money from their work, so no
big complaints there - I, like many other users, will settle for
Times, Helvetica, Symbol and Courier.

I don't think it will be long at all before the non-Adobe outline font
makers quickly catch up.  Since Apple is making the font format openly
known, DTP and font oriented vendors will jump on the bandwagon (if
they aren't already).  Certainly Apple will rely on others to supply
their fonts - they always have.  I would not be surprised to see the
oldies that we know and love - Athena, Cairo, London, San Fransisco,
et al - to be delivered with System 7.0 as outlines (they showed a
couple already at MacWorld Expo).

But then, this is just my $.02 anyway...



--
                Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering
                    GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414
                            Milwaukee, WI  53201
  	       (414) 548-5163 : EMAIL -  hallett@gemed.ge.com