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

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 14:44, Sujal Shah wrote:
>=20
> 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. =20

Of course, they're aided and abetted by the makers of the superior
technology thinking that somehow if they act like anybody who uses the
ideas in their technology are evil thieves who must be sued, punished
and generally removed from existence.

If companies didn't behave in this way, a sickness and cancer like
Microsoft would have no medium in which to grow.

I distinctly remember Adobe telling everybody that Type 1 fonts were
'uncrackable', then trying to sue the person who figured out the
format.  And then, of course, there was all the stupid noise they made
about suing people who made Postscript interpreters.  They almost
managed to kill Postscript that way.

I wrote my first real resum=E9 by hand in raw Postscript.  I had a Unix
account, but no similar clearance to use the Macs in the same lab.  I
learned a fair bit of Postscript then, and even a bit about how to write
a font.  I just didn't know much about how TrueType worked.

>From what people have said, it's sad that TrueType has gotten so
popular.  Adobe has only themselves to blame for that really.  *sigh*

Have fun (if at all possible),
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