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

[Sujal Shah]

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 14:34, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
[SNIP]
> 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.

While I think I agree with your general point (saying any company has
been excessively proprietary when mentioning Microsoft in the same
paragraph is silly), I seem to remember reading somewhere that TrueType
has certain advantages over PS/Type 1/etc. for everything except serious
typography work. I'll see if I can dig out the cite (it was either in a
discussion, like slashdot (and documented), or on a web site somewhere
when I was trying to sort out fonts in Crossover Office and Word).

If we're going to fault Microsoft, it's generally because they come up
with a proprietary, inferior (but good enough) technology for things,
then muscle out the superior technology.  

This isn't unusual, though, to Microsoft.  Sony and Betamax vs. VHS
comes to mind.  At least in that case, the proprietary vendor lost out
in the wider market.

Sujal

> 
> 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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> > It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."  --- Thomas Jefferson
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