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Article #5572Re: Jasmine LaserPrinter
From: mcdonald
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 16:18
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 16:18
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>Every major PostScript printer out there today uses Adobe [fonts]. I can't >imagine this one doesn't--they would be stupid not to. >Unless, of course, they care about a silly little thing called "cost." But fonts are different from licensing PostScript itself. All they have to do is get the font descriptions somehow and copy them (or clone them). Fonts, both bitmap and lineshape, cannot be protected by copyright (or patent for that matter.) Only the names can be.
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