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- From: Ian_Upright@mindlink.bc.ca (Ian Upright)
- Subject: Re: No TrueType Fonts in OS/2 2.1 ?!
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:56:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <19360@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > R Douglas Botimer writes:
- >
- > :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. 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.
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-
- Lets not spread true FUD here! TrueType wasn't developed by Microsoft,
- it was stolen BY Microsoft from Apple. Apple invented TrueType.
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