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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Universal font standard
Message-ID: <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 88 07:46:35 GMT
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca.
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Keywords: common

Pretty wild idea, huh ?

Every computer that uses bit-mapped fonts has it's own font file
format.

Apollo fonts cant be used on Macs, Mac fonts can be used on Amigas
etc.

One can write conversion programs to convert font format from any
computer to any other computer, but as the number of different
types of computers goes up, this is a silly idea.

/* HP mode on */

What if...

... there was a common standard. Not some god-awful ANSI thing
that takes years to develop, nobody likes, and then Dennis says
it wont work anyway, but something simple.

Like maybe use ascii characters:



      *
     * *
    *   *
   *     *
  *********
 *         *
*           *


Thus the problem is only to convert one computers format to and from 
this format and universality is guarenteed between all other computers
supporting this.


Before I go any further: Comments ?


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