Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!dftsrv!heawk1!hoepfner From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: TrueType problem with Word 4 Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 16:37:50 GMT References: <1991Apr5.141350.244@otago.ac.nz> <1991Apr5.154622.246@otago.ac.nz> <1991Apr8.131701.14300@cbnewsc.att.com> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Distribution: na Lines: 29 straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka) writes: >In article <1991Apr5.154622.246@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes: >|BTW, I read this morning that Microsoft are having trouble >|integrating TrueType into Windows 3.1, and Windows 3.1 will be >|delayed until about October as a result. Serves them right, ha >|ha! Apple strikes back against Microsoft! ;-) >| >|But seriously, does anyone out there know if there is a conflict >|of some sort between TrueType and Word? >My memory may be hazy here, but didn't some of the TrueType technology that >Apple is putting forward here come FROM MicroSoft? If so, it's not a good >commentary for MicroSoft. Apple and Microsoft (not MicroSoft) have an agreement about this (you can imagine how this blew Adobe's mind to see these people agreeing on something) John Warnock of Adobe almost lost it to find this out at a DTP meeting where Warnock, Skulley, and wild Bill were present. Microsoft is making the Rasterizer (the printer software to make the TrueType fonts print) and Apple developed the fonts. It is nice to see these guys taking the gloves off to work at something to everyone's advantage. Still, it is hard to believe... -- +--------------------------+---------------------------------------+ / Patrick Hoepfner | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center \ / America Online: PatrickH9 | Internet: hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov \ +-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+