Re: NT shuts out third-party font packages

[Christopher Pall <christopher.pall@wmich.edu>]

How does this prevent your friend from developing his own software rendering package? I don't understand... Could you give more details? Technical
details might be nice...

Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> 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