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From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Open Fonts
Message-ID: <628@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 15 Mar 89 22:22:55 GMT
References: <26962@apple.Apple.COM> <25@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <622@maxim.ERBE.SE> <29@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <29@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:

> Seriously, I think OpenFonts has some other advantages.
> One is that the fonts are licensed from the originators, just like the
> fonts Adobe uses are licensed. But instead of waiting for Adobe to license
> the font and convert it into a proprietary font, others are allowed to
> license the fonts, removing a bottleneck.

Yes, but one still needs to convert the fonts into, say, PostScript in
order to be able to use them in the favourite printer. And I somehow
doubt that it will be that easy, since, as Glenn Reid noted, the font
manufacturers most probably want to protect their fonts by using some
encryption scheme. Sun will probably be happy to supply us with a
conversion program  (that costs $) in binary form to convert the fonts
into encrypted PostScript or a HP bitmap font or whatever.

Or maybe we will have to wait for the first printer running NeWS?
Now, THAT'd be nice!

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