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- From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
- Subject: Re: No TrueType Fonts in OS/2 2.1 ?!
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- References: <1993Jan7.193312.16367@clark.dgim.doc.ca> <96122@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:05:04 GMT
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- rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan7.193312.16367@clark.dgim.doc.ca> tennesen@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
- >(Andy Tenne-Sens) writes:
-
- >Some stuf deleted:
-
- >:I'm disturbed, however, that a recent posting stated that IBM has decided
- >:not to support TrueType scalable fonts. Does anyone out there know if
- >:this is so? Will IBM depend on Adobe for scalable-font capability?
- >:If I run OS/2, will I still be able to use Word for Windows 2.0 and
- >:some kind of scalable fonts? Will I still be able to embed equations
- >:and graphics into my documents?
-
- >more deleted:
-
- >Why wouldn't IBM depend on Adobe, along with many other companies? TrueType is
- >is pure Microsoft.
-
- Apple, not Microsoft. See the various postings by George Moore (the
- "TrueType Guy" at Microsoft) when asked about TrueType standards: his
- response (correct as far as I can tell) is that they are controlled by
- Apple and not MS.
-
- The Mac OS also supports TT fonts.
-
- > It seem to me that IBM would rather pay royalties to Adobe
- >than to Microsoft. Looks to me like Microsoft developed TrueType to keep from
- >paying royalties to Adobe and Apple. October 27 PC Magazine has an
- > informative bit on fonts. Looks to me like ATM is better technology too.
-
- TT was to a large degree (at least as seen from the outside world) developed
- in response to the astronomical license fees demanded by Adobe. It's
- interesting to note the sudden open attitude at Adobe following the
- announcement of TrueType.
-
- Better technology? Maybeso, maybeno. Personally I don't see any particular
- dramatic advantage to either architecture, and for whatever reason there
- appear to be more TrueType fonts available (after less than a year of
- public availability of TrueType engines) than PostScript. And yes, before
- someone starts an argument I'll agree that many of those TT fonts are
- unadulterated garbage, but so are a lot of PS fonts.
-
- Right now I like the interface between the TT engine and the physical
- printer, because for all printer types the job of downloading the
- necessary fonts is performed by TT. ATM doesn't provide that support
- in the case of PostScript printers, leaving someone else to remember to
- download what's needed...meaning that there's no way to avoid downloading
- a huge complete font file if you need just one glyph. (ATM 2.5 for Windows
- supposedly has something along this line; I'll have to go back and reread
- the glossy announcement.)
-
- Personally, I use both on Windows, and (obviously) only ATM on OS/2. Our
- corporate standard for PC users is Windows 3.1 (perhaps a couple of
- thousand machines), so the heavy-duty stuff is all done in Windows anyway,
- at least until NT comes and/or IBM offers us a reason to make OS/2 an
- organization standard product.
-
- Joe Morris
-