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From: altman@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: WFNBoss Patch, and who owns the fonts
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Date: 29 Jan 91 06:36:15 GMT
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Corel has posted to Compuserve a Patch for one of the 
problems related to converted WFN to ATM fonts.  I will try to
upload it to cica tomorrow.  It is called WFNPCH.LZH and 
requires the LHARC.EXE file that comes with Corel Draw to 
use it.

The patch causes WFN Boss to generate unique font ID numbers
for each subsequently generated font.  There was another patch
that was supposed to fix a problem with extra lines being 
generated when converted fonts were displayed and printed but
that was removed because it didn't work on all printers.

Corel is going to release an Update when they fix the known 
problems.

Also, the question has been posed to Corel as to who owns the
fonts that are created with WFNBoss.  They have not yet responded
but I will let you know when they do.

The general question goes like this, since Corel provides about 
$1500 worth of fonts by Adobe prices and a means of converting
their WFN fonts to ATM or other formats, does Corel own the 
fonts once they are converted?  If so, how much alteration is 
required to remove their ownership?  If a WFN is saved to a new
format, loaded and altered to add hinting info, do they still own 
it?  Etc?

If someone reads the Corel response before I do, or if I miss it
please post it here.

Thanks.


- Jeff (jaltman@ccmail.sunysb.edu)
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- Jeff (jaltman@ccmail.sunysb.edu)