Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!ucsd!usc!samsung!umich!mailrus!ncar!mephisto!mcnc!rti!mozart!bts
From: bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: How do I find out what a font is?
Keywords: Information sources
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.154109.23744@unx.sas.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 15:41:09 GMT
References: <910@massey.ac.nz> <1990Aug23.024214.6309@unx.sas.com> <5916@adobe.UUCP>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Lines: 23

In article <5916@adobe.UUCP> dkletter@adobe.UUCP (It's all fun and games until someone PUTS AN EYE OUT) writes:
|bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger) writes:
|>Precisely correct, except that with (real) PostScript the fonts and
|>the font scaling technology are supplied by Adobe rather than Bitstream.
|
|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.

I will take your word for it that BitStream has fonts out in Adobe format,
which uses PostScript to do the work.  However, Bitstream also has their
*own* fonts and font-rendering technology, called Speedo.  Various software
vendors then liscense this technology and put it their products.  This gives
their products output-device-independent scalable fonts.

The entire world does not revolve around PostScript, even if it's really
nifty.
-- 
-- Brian, the Man from Babble-on.		bts@unx.sas.com
-- (Brian Schellenberger)
"And when the votes were cast, the winner was . . .
 Mister James K. Polk, Napolean of the stump."        -- THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS.