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From: capslock@cup.portal.com (Allen M Crider)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Bitstream cracks eexec
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Date: 8 Mar 89 07:53:18 GMT
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I've read about Bitstream releasing a library of 1,000 type 1 fonts
for PostScript devices, and laughed at the thought, but it's true.
  Bitstream sent me a book of one line showings, and a copy of
"dutch" in Macintosh format. I looked at it with a file edit utility
and it is indeed a type one font and is encoded with eexec. It does not
appear to have hints for low-resolution (300dpi) output.
  I'm assuming they had produced their standard library over the years on a
system similiar to Ikarus. Perhaps Ikarus now has a PostScript generating
utility that works. :) At any rate, I really believe thay can finish
a 1,000 font PostScript conversion by late Spring.
  The fonts won't be available to the general public, just to service bureaus
for the time being. $26,000 for the set. The library has ITC and ATF faces,
and a lot of cheap pirates of Linotype, Monotype & Berthold faces.
  Bitstream's brochure claims these fonts will work with "clone typesetters
such as the Compugraphic Genics typesetters and the Itek Graphix IGX7000."
 I haven't heard of any PostScript clone supporting eexec. Has anybody
run an Adobe font on a clone? What about the prospect of Adobe suing?
Perhaps no clone maker is willing to be the first one to step forward and
announce they support eexec.