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Subject: Re: Linotype PostScript printers
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 16:44:01 EST
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From: adobe!taft@Shasta (Ed Taft)

I'd like to correct and clarify some of the information given in a
recent message about Allied Linotype typesetters and PostScript.

The Allied Linotype products that are currently on the market do not
have anything to do with PostScript. The software controlling these
typesetters and the page description languages for driving them are
entirely different from PostScript. Likewise, the fonts used in the
current products come directly from Merganthaler, and Adobe Systems has
had no involvement in their production.

When the P300 and P101 printers come on the market, they will have full
PostScript capabilities. These printers will support both Merganthaler
fonts and Adobe PostScript fonts licensed from Merganthaler and other
typeface vendors.

Each of the Adobe fonts is size-independent and is scaled automatically
from a single description, just like the LaserWriter fonts. The
Linotype PostScript printers will support a standard set of fonts
similar to the LaserWriter's; and as new fonts are produced they will
likely be made available for Linotype, LaserWriter, and other PostScript
printers. However, downloadable font descriptions won't be directly
interchangeable between these printers; each line of products will have
its own corresponding line of fonts. This is not for technical reasons,
but is necessary to conform to the typeface suppliers' copyright and
licensing requirements.

	Ed Taft
	Adobe Systems, Inc.

Notices:
  Linotronic 300 and Linotron 101 are trademarks of Allied Corporation
  PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
  LaserWriter is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.