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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: PostScript standard?
Message-ID: <1757@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 00:45:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 00:45:05 1987
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In article <170@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> dave@viper.UUCP (David Messer) writes:
>In article <255@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> zwicky%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth Zwicky) writes:
> >So it would be possible to write one's own
> >PostScript-like language interpreter. It could in fact, duplicate
> >the functionality of Adobe's PostScript identically.
>
>Not quite, it couldn't duplicate the Font's that Adobe uses,
>they are copyrighted.  They could have the same form-factor
>however.

Not quite not quite. You cant copyright font designs in the US. You can
copyright the ACTUAL binaries, and you can trademark the name, but thats
as far as it goes.

As has been pointed out previously, having the real Adobe fonts is only half
of it. Its the secret magic fudge that Adobe does to those fonts that is
going to set PostScript apart from the clones.


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>Copyright 1987 David Messer -- All Rights Reserved

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