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From: wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: FONTS (was Windows, Windows Write, Fonts, Epson LQ)
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Date: 5 May 90 21:25:57 GMT
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Well, I just got the latest PC Magazine(May 15, 1990 Vol. 9 Num. 9), and
boy does it have some "Good News".  When I read the Pipeline article on
page 64, I just about hit the ceiling!  I will quote the info here( note
without permision).

TRUETYPE CLAIMS SPEED, POSTSCRIPT CLAIMS IBM

Heavy maneuvers took place in the battle to control PC font standards
recently(see Pipline,November 28,1989).
   Microsoft stepped up the timetable for delivery of its font
technology in OS/2 to later this year and gave it a formal name,
TrueType (it has gone by the code name "Royal" until now).  Microsoft
also promised to include TrueType in future versions of MicroSoft
Windows and said that it expected major software publishers to include
the font manager in DOS character-based programs, too.
   Microsoft is seeking to win over developers by providing results of
its own testing that show TrueType to be far faster thath PostScript.
And Microsoft is trying to convince software developers that writing
interfaces to the TrueType page description language will be easier and
more efficient since TrueType's commands will be accessed from inside
the operating system.  It also maintains that despite Adobe's recent
publication of "The PostScript's specifications," programmers still
cannot access PostScript's proprietary algorithm for font hinting.
   Adobe, meanwhile, convinced IBM to build Display PostScript into the
emerging family of graphical SAA interfaces, including AIX and OS/2
software.  IBM also promised to support TrueType, but only on PS/2s.
   If you find this sorry state of affairs confusing, there some
consolation.  Microsoft says that TrueType will have no problem printing
out to PostScript printers.

		-pg. 64 May 15, 1990 PC MAGAZINE

Sounds like great news, but the big question is HOW LONG BEFORE WINDOWS
HAS IT?????  (also is this article 100% accurate???)

Please comment on what you think to the news group.


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-Dean wallwey