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From: phillips@tegra.COM (Steve Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: How do I find out what a font is?
Keywords: Information sources
Message-ID: <1328@io.tegra.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 90 17:20:43 GMT
References: <910@massey.ac.nz> <1990Aug23.024214.6309@unx.sas.com> <5916@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: phillips@io.UUCP (Steve Phillips)
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
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In article <5916@adobe.UUCP> dkletter@adobe.UUCP (It's all fun and games until someone PUTS AN EYE OUT) writes:
> ...
>this font scaling technology is bascially PostScript at work. Bitstream
>uses it as well. the difference between their typefaces and ours is
>that Adobe typefaces are in the Type1 format (includes the encryption
>and hinting methods) and Bitstream's are Type3.
>
>of course, with the advent of the Black Book, anyone can produce Type1
>fonts if they so desire.

My understanding was that Bitstream offers type 1 fonts as well as type 3.
I know that Bitstream announced they had cracked the type 1 format shortly
before Adobe announced they were making it public.

- Steve

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Steve Phillips                                         Tegra-Varityper, Inc.
tegra!phillips@uunet.com                               Billerica, MA
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