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In article <110300005@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Basically, what Adobe is going to have to do to stay on top of
>the business is to stop being so proprietary with their font formats:
>otherwise they will fade away. And, according to the morning's
>New York Times, they will do just that.

  I'd be really surprised if that happened.  What percentage of the
font market in the U.S. does Adobe have?  I'm not sure, but it's
awfully high--I've done proofreading for three summers at various
places, and a good 80-90% of the fonts used are Adobe's.

>Actually, I am surprised that laser printer users like Adobe's fonts.
>They are really not very good looking.

  Really?  Which of their 100+ fonts?  I've found nobody yet who
prefers, say, Bitstream fonts to Adobe's.  These fonts have evolved
over a long period of time--for some of them, hundreds of years--and
been carefully hand-tuned.

>The only way to get things REALLY right on a computer is to store the
>bitmaps, hand adjusted, on a disk. That really doesn't take too
>much space [ ... ]

Depends how many fonts you're using.  A 12-point font and kerning
table (which should be stored separately for different sizes if you're
hand-tuning the bitmap) runs about 1 MB at 1200 dpi.  The font alone
runs about 1/2 MB.  Multiply this by, say, 4 style variations and 5
fonts...I don't have that much space to waste.

						Anton

P.S.  Take a look at some books and magazines sometime, and count how
      many of them use Adobe fonts.  It's awfully high.
   
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