Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!levels!sahiways!peters From: peters@sahiways.gov.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Royal Fonts vs. ATM Message-ID: <844@sahiways.gov.au> Date: 18 Dec 89 16:32:29 GMT References: Organization: DEPARTMENT of ROAD TRANSPORT Lines: 38 In article , perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Willie Perez) writes: > Talking about the 90's, PostScript was the 80's! I hate to say it but Steve > Jobs made mistake #1 with his NeXT. It all depends on PostScript. > Apple is working on mathematical descriptions for fonts that no longer require > postscript for high quality printed fonts. This will dramatically enhance > non PostScript printing effectively and lessen the need for a file for each > font size to be installed in the system. Apple has made a deal with Microsoft > so they can license this technology for the PC's. If you notice, Adobe, > creaters of PostScript, have cashed in on this deal and created their own > version of outline (not PS) fonts to compete with Apple's system 7.0. Personally, I find Apple's idea of the so-called "Royal" outline font technology to be rather dead. I love PostScript; all the guys at Adobe (with the exception of the idiot who wrote the initial protection scheme) should be applauded for their excellent work. I know that if I am ever forced (by System software or whatever) to use Royal font stuff, I'll sell up and buy a NeXT! PostScript is not to be considered a printer-based page description language alone ... Display PostScript contains the same basic code kernel, and just has a small device dependent front end to it. I can see Apple will continue to push Royal font technology, mainly due to their pig-headedness. Apple should have switched to Display PostScript aeons ago, relegating QuickDraw to the background for compatibility's sake. Unfortunately for Apple, Adobe's Type Manager came out first. It has some advantages over Royal: 1) it works on all Macs, NOW. We don't have to wait for System 7. 2) it works with 99.9% of the existing PostScript fonts. 3) it works with heaps of non-Apple and non-PostScript printers 4) users have the choice of turning it off when necessary Royal fonts have already contracted terminal cancer, Microsoft deal or no. POSTSCRIPT FOREVER! Geoff Peters