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From: nate@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Nate Berggren)
Subject: Re: TrueType problem with Word 4
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.154235.8815@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University
References: <1991Apr5.141350.244@otago.ac.nz> <1991Apr5.154622.246@otago.ac.nz> <1991Apr8.131701.14300@cbnewsc.att.com>
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1991 15:42:35 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.131701.14300@cbnewsc.att.com> 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.

I was under the impression that Apple developed TrueType themselves
as a cheaper alternative to Adobe's PostScript.  Apple agreed to 
let Microsoft use TrueType in Windows 3.0 in exchange for which
Microsoft would share its PostScript clone technology with Apple.

That's what I remember from a MacWeek article I read last year.




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