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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Three new "open" font formats...
Summary: Make that four, soon.
Keywords: outline font format proprietary
Message-ID: <719@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 27 May 89 08:12:33 GMT
References: <7438@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Organization: The Peanut Gallery?
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In article <7438@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:

>Sun, Adobe, and Apple have all announced the "opening" of their
>outline font technologies.  Each one has its own features and
>drawbacks:

Mr. Gilmore then describes the merits and drawbacks with each format
and gives his comments on them.

>It's my analysis that these companies talked to each other, but none
>of them was willing to let the others co-control their format, so
>eventually all three were released.
>
>Any comments from the peanut gallery?

There will soon be four formats, I think... Microsoft is reportedly
working on their very own page description language that they eventually
hope will replace Adobe's PostScript as the de-facto standard (so what's
wrong with PostScript besides that Mr. Gates can't buy it?) It will
supposedly contain yet another outline font format.


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