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From: geof@imagen.UUCP (Geoffrey Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: PostScript compatible printers
Message-ID: <1777@imagen.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 23:16:24 GMT
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Organization: IMAGEN Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101
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> > Adobe fonts are not part of PostScript.
> This I don't understand.

Read the red book.  The format of the font files is not specified.  In
fact, it is not even specified that outline fonts have to be used at
all, although it mentions that Adobe's implementation does use them.
In the appendix, Adobe mentions a standard set of core fonts, but even
these are not part of the language.

This is not to say that we are splitting hairs.  We wouldn't be in
business if we did.  IMAGEN's fonts look just like Adobe's fonts, since
they come from the same outline data.  I think that the user wins in
this situation.  Disk space is a problem if you have to store both
IMAGEN and Adobe fonts on a disk, but a font in all its sizes fits in
about 55KB, which is small potatoes with current disk prices.  Many
IMAGEN printers have hard disks on them, so you don't need to store the
fonts on your local system, or download, etc..

- Geof
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