Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!keith From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Microsoft/Adobe/PostScript news Message-ID: <54054@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 16 Jun 91 22:17:13 GMT References: <1991Jun15.200359.7396@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 32 In article crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes: >> A nit: MicroSoft was working on "TrueImage," a PostScript clone. >> "TrueType" is a font technology, and it is already being shipped >> by Apple. WinDoze will probably ship with it sometime soon. > >Thanks for supplying that info. That makes more sense. TrueType _has_ >made a dent as a font (not general page description) imaging >technology; It (TrueType) does a good job in Apple Macintosh System 7. >I wonder if current Apple printers like the StyleWriter use TrueType >for font outline imaging (or just scaling which is part of imaging) >but QuickDraw for other graphics imaging. Does anyone know if Apple >was planning on using TrueImage in its printers to help introduce >another well-defined page description language? (So, perhaps there is >a chance it will go back to working on low-cost PostScript printers >and thus stay more compatible with NeXT.) As I understand it, Apple's low-end printers (StyleWriter and the Personal LaserWriters) come with TrueType technology for System 6.0.7 (TrueType is already built into System 7.0). What really bites me is the recent article in Byte magazine talking about those printers. In the article, it mentions that TrueType was developed by MicroSoft and was licensed to Apple. MicroSoft!?!?! It was the other way around! How could such a large industry magazine make such a bone-headed mistake? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. INTERNET: keith@apple.com UUCP: {decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl}!apple!keith "But where the senses fail us, reason must step in." - Galileo