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NT shuts out third-party font packages

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Subject: NT shuts out third-party font packages
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:48:59 -0700

A good friend, a developer, was interested in creating a superior font
rendering package for Windows NT. However, searching through Microsoft's
developer documentation, he encountered the following:

"Note: Third-party, non-TrueType scalable font products 
that were supported by Windows 3.1 are not supported by 
Windows NT. These products include Adobe Type Manager (ATM), 
Bitstream Facelift, and Atech Publisher’s PowerPak."

When Microsoft wants to own a market or a standard, it takes no prisoners.

--Brett Glass

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