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From: crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum)
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Subject: end of Microsoft printer software effort -- bad news for TrueType?
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Date: 15 Jun 91 17:40:10 GMT
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Microsoft canceled its printer software development effort, according to
an article I read yesterday (using the Company News section of Prodigy which
uses Dow Jones News Retrieval service).  The article mentioned neither
TrueType nor Apple, but it did say that the Microsoft effort failed to make
inroads into territory held by Adobe PostScript.

Does anyone have more info, especially with respect to support and development
of TrueType at Apple?  I have mixed feelings, because I would like to
simplify compatibility issues for computer users, while I don't like to
see ridiculously high prices as a result of a monopoly.

Gary