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From: jim@ncd.COM (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Speedo Donated to X Consortium (Bitstream Inc. Press Release)
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Date: 6 Mar 91 18:36:44 GMT
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	Will other companies be able to produce fonts in the Speedo format

Certainly.  Everyone will have the formatting information (UTSL :-).


	or will this
	lock all X users into using Bitstream as their font vendor?

No.   The Consortium isn't standardizing an outline format; Bitstream is
donating the Speedo code and some sample fonts so that everyone in the X
community will have at least one commercial-quality outline rasterizer and
source of font art work.


							Jim Fulton
							NCD