Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) Subject: Re: TrueType problem with Word 4 Message-ID: <1991Apr16.131120.812@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University References: <1991Apr5.154622.246@otago.ac.nz> <1991Apr8.131701.14300@cbnewsc.att.com> <1991Apr9.041738.5550@eng.umd.edu> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 13:11:20 GMT Lines: 27 In article <1991Apr9.041738.5550@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: > >No. Apple licensed TrueType (Royal, at the time) to Microsoft, in return for >a PostScript Clone MS bought off someone else (but seems to have vanished, >leaving Apple holding the smelly end of the stick again. When are they going >to learn not to give anything of value to MicroSoft?) Actually, the PostScript Clone that Microsoft bought, and then traded to Apple, is now known as TrueImage. There's even a printer (all of one) on the market that uses TrueImage as its imaging software. Woo. The whole fiasco that involved Adobe, Apple, and Microsoft in font and imaging technology has actually turned out well for Apple. Adobe, in response to having its dominance attacked, has loosened up and become a much more reasonable company, opening up Type 1 and making PostScript both cheaper and better. Microsoft is adopting TrueType for Windows 3.1, thus assuring that plenty of font suppliers who wouldn't otherwise make TrueType fonts will do so. And Apple still has TrueImage, which rumor says they will use for a forthcoming printer. -- Jim Gaynor - Systems Analyst 1 + "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never Ohio State University ACS-FMS-OCES | comes to any harm. He does silly gaynor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu | things and they come out right." gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu + -Piglet, from "Winnie-The-Pooh"