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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Freedom of Press Light and the
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Date: 18 Nov 90 09:32:00 GMT
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> Apple should stop worrying about replacing Type 1 with TrueType and put some
> serious effort into upgrading the QuickDraw graphics environment and soon...

I agree STRONGLY with this statement, but we should remember
something.  Apple's move to TrueType is THE ONLY reason you can
purchase ATM today.  Adobe was going to sit on its font technology
FOREVER, until Apple announced truetype.

ATM is Adobe's last-ditch effort to keep its font standard from being
replaced.  They sat on their duffs, and were put to shame when Apple
wouldn't stand for it.  You should have heard John Warnock, president
of Adobe, break into tears during a speech about adobe's future
directions and font standards, and the Apple/Microsoft pact.

It's likely that if Apple abandons truetype, Adobe will recall all
versions of ATM 2.0 from the market shelves.  Just remember that the
init will probably break under system 7.0, with good reason.  Adobe
needs an incentive to release ATM for system 7.0.  That's just the way
things work in the cutthroat world of proprietary corporate america.

Also, by the way, Adobe has not completely released its algorithms for
font scaling.  The type-1 hint data structures are known (just some
pointers to important locations in the character).  How to remove
detail from these locations, when the font is scaled down to say, 6
point type, has not been released to the public.