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

[John J. Urbaniak]

Eric Mathew Hopper wrote:

> 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.

And Microsoft is NOT excessively proprietary about *their* technologies?  Come on!

Why is it that every small company who establishes a market niche and then tries to make a living is dissed for
being "excessively proprietary" while Microsoft can squash everyone in sight?

Like Netscape, who opened the browser market, Adobe created the PC font market.  Like IE was a poor knock-off of
Netscape at the beginning, true-type is a poor knock-off of Adobe fonts.  Of course, after Microsoft was able to
cut off each's air supply, they eventually caught up and became "the standard."  But this "too proprietary"
stuff is nonsense.  You pay for what you get and you get what you pay for.

I'm sick of this kind of attitude.

John


>
>
>         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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