Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!xanth!mcnc!ecsvax.uncecs.edu!utoddl
From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WB 1.4 outline font support
Summary: or the PostScript type 1 fonts
Message-ID: <1989Oct5.192219.13374@uncecs.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 89 19:22:19 GMT
References: <8910042015.AA26851@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Lines: 18

In article <8910042015.AA26851@jade.berkeley.edu>, FILLMORE@EMRCAN.BITNET writes:
> 
>   Rumor has it that WB 1.4 will include support for outline fonts.
> Does anybody know if these are Commodore proprietary fonts?
> Has Commodore considered licensing the outline font technology recently
> announced by Apple, and licensed by Microsoft for use on OS/2 and
> HP LaserJet printers?

Adobe has just put the PostScript type 1 font specification into PD (in
response, it seems, to the Microsoft/Apple announcement).  Is it too late
to work that in?  Native PostScript with real PostScript fonts
would seem like a Good Thing.
_____        
  |      Todd M. Lewis            Disclaimer: If you want my employer's
  ||\/|  utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu             ideas, you'll have to
  ||  || utoddl@ecsvax.bitnet                 _buy_ them. 
   |  ||     
       |___   ("Prgrms wtht cmmnts r lk sntncs wtht vwls." --TML)