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From: gak@apple.com (Greg Kimberly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Message-ID: <4319@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 21:54:46 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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References:<15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1179@adobe.UUCP> <5516@wiley.UUCP> <1227@adobe.UUCP> <2463@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1234@adobe.UUCP>

In article <1234@adobe.UUCP> bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson) writes:
> We are using the correct definition of a font. Each one is a true font,
> coming with a bitmap and outline. The variations of fonts (like roman,
> bold, italic, bolditalic) together make a font family. If you look at 
any of
> Adobe's, Linotype's, or BitStream's catalogs, you'll see they use this 
same
> 'font' definition. Apple's sales literature for the LaserWriter 
mentioned it
> coming with 13 fonts - the NTX brochures talk about the 35 resident 
fonts.

Add me to the people that were fooled by the "13 fonts" bit. Most people 
obviously think of a "font" being equivalent to "font family". Ads that 
use the word to mean "font or font style" are a bad idea because they 
leave the customer disappointed.  (And the deception is obvious before the 
poor unfortunate buys the product, so it is immediate bad business, too.) 
It isn't anything that would stop me from buying ATM, (the $300/ for some 
period price may do that) but it certainly doesn't help. 

-Opinions expressed are my own, or maybe somebody else's, but probably not 
Apple's-