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From: jeynes@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: What's going on at Abode? Stock up over 5 points!
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Date: 8 Mar 90 18:45:29 GMT
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Reply-To: jeynes@adobe.UUCP (Ross A. Jeynes)
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In article <3609@csccat.UUCP> larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) writes:
>I believe that IBM adopted Adobe's font technology for OS/2.  This 
>brings up the gruesome scenario of different font formats in IBM's OS/2
>and Microsoft's OS/2.  Ugh.  I'll be curious to see how the Adobe 

Actually, the announcement was that IBM will support the Adobe font 
technology in all of their SAA (Systems Applications Architecture)
platforms; so this includes much more than just OS/2.  It also includes
mainframes, AIX platforms, etc.

IBM said that they will support the Royal font format, as well as the Adobe
fonts, in their version of OS/2, but they also indicated that the Adobe
font technology would be the "default."  (The official name for Royal is
now True Type, I think.)  Apparently there has not yet been a decision made
about wether True Type will be supported by IBM on platforms other than 
OS/2.


Ross Jeynes              
Developer Support                                           jeynes@adobe.com
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