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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon)
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Subject: Re: TrueType problem with Word 4
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.015625.15956@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 01:56:25 GMT
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nate@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Nate Berggren) writes:

>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.



Absolutely correct.  APPLE developed TrueType, and licensed it to Microsoft.
NOT the other way around.
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