[Am-info] Re: True-Type fonts "gone!"

[Eric Mathew Hopper]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:33:22PM +0000, Marcus de Geus wrote:
> In reply to a message from "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@lightlink.com> dated 2002-08-18 23:56:38 -0400 (Sun):
> 
> [quoted from /.]> Guess it's time for the OSS people to make some
> decent-looking scalable both-screen-and-printer fonts (preferably
> TrueType).
> 
> Oh dear. Whatever the people at /. may think of Adobe, they should
> know better than to express a preference for TT over Type 1 fonts (or
> any other font system, probably).

	I have no idea which is better or why.  I know Adobe shot
themselves in the foot by trying to be excessively proprietary about
their font technologies early on.

	Since TrueType is actually a standard that's widely supported
and widely implemented with no people threatening suits over it, I'm all
for it.

	I would find an education on why one format was better than the
other to be elucidating though.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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