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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: No TrueType Fonts in OS/2 2.1 ?!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.013717.3004@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan7.193312.16367@clark.dgim.doc.ca> <96122@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:37:17 GMT
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- In article <96122@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> 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:
- >
- >Whywouldn't IBM depend onAdobe, along with many other companies?
-
-
- Because Adobe charges a *fortune* for their fonts (which are
- about as high-quality that you can get, but there's a lot more
- cheap Truetype fonts for the normal user than there are cheap
- ATM fonts.. God save us from things like Atech "multiple" fonts).
-
-
- >TrueType is
- >is pure Microsoft.
-
-
- Truetype is pure Apple. The only thing Microsoft about truetype
- is the implementation (16 bit instead of 32 bit as in Apples
- system 7) under Windows 3.1. Truetype is a trademark of Apple and was
- developed by Apple. Supposedly MS and Apple worked together on
- it ("Royal") but from everything I've read this was "apple skill,
- some MS money".
-
- Truetype is also damn good. The quality at small point sizes
- for the included fonts is higher than the quality you get with
- ATM2.5, ATM2.0, MoreFonts, FastFonts and Bitstreams new Facelift
- for WordPerfect (all but the last running under Win31 on an HP
- LaserJet III or 4--though it's hard to tell on the 4 without a
- magnifying glass).
-
- Speaking of which, I'm still waiting on a proper print driver
- for OS/2 for the LJ4. For Windows, I got a nice driver that
- works flawlessly and included TrueType screen fonts. If you
- use the internal fonts, it's blazingly fast (first time I've
- seen an HP type actually get 8 pages per minute _for real_ except
- for using Courier or Line Printer).
-
-
- >It seem to me that IBM would rather pay royalties to Adobe
- >than to Microsoft.
-
-
- This is plain dumb. IBM is paying royalties for a slow,
- outdated form of ATM. Poorly spent money, if you ask me.
- It's roughly equivalent to buying Word 1.0 for PM--buying the
- inferior product doesn't encourage improvement.
-
- Are their any plans to implement the SuperATM type
- multiple-mastering in the OS/2 version--or offer it
- as a seperate product?
-
-
- >Looks to me like Microsoft developed TrueType to keep from
- >paying royalties to Adobe and Apple.
-
-
- Apple/MS also developed a page description language--TruePage--
- that works pretty well. The WinMaster800 800dpi laser printer
- uses the Truepage Postscript-emulation program to print postscript
- rather than licensing Postscript or a PS clone.
-
-
- >October 27 PC Magazine has an informative
- >bit on fonts. Looks to me like ATM is better technology too.
-
-
- Output to a Laserjet or compatible is several orders of magnitude
- faster via TrueType than it is via ATM under OS/2 (32 bit, too).
- I think this changed under ATM2.5 (which may or may not download
- soft fonts, instead of full page bitmaps, which is what makes 2.0
- such a DOG).
-
-
-
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