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From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
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Subject: Re: Jasmine LaserPrinter
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Date: 14 Dec 88 17:56:55 GMT
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In article <4863@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) writes:
>Every major PostScript printer out there today uses Adobe.  I can't
>imagine this one doesn't--they would be stupid not to.

Au contraire.  They use Adobe because that was the only place to get
PostScript(TM).  If you use Adobe's PostScript (and pay their license
fee) you can use Adobe fonts.

A number of companies weren't willing to pay the license fees Adobe
charges.  As a result, several different PostScript clone
implementations were developed.  The idea is that Adobe owns their
implementation and some algorithms they use but that they don't own
the language itself.

However, the clone developers needed a source of fonts.  Since they
didn't want to pay for Adobe fonts (I don't know how willing Adobe
would have been to sell fonts to someone who has cloned their
software) they needed an alternate source.  Every clone about which
I've heard relies on Bitstream fonts.

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Hank Shiffman                                     (415) 336-4658
AI Product Marketing Technical Specialist       ...!sun!shiffman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.                          shiffman@Sun.com

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