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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
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Subject: Re: Let The Font Wars Begin
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Date: 27 Sep 89 22:17:40 GMT
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In article <2560@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com () writes
(among other things):
>
>
>One article claimed that the move was good for Apple because it would
>make Royal the undisputed "industry standard" font technology.  I find
>this explanation hard to swallow; in the past, Apple has certainly not
>been concerned with making their proprietary technology into "industry
>standards" (and in fact has often resorted to legal means to prevent
>this from happening :-).

The main advantage to Apple in all this is that they have the chance
to make their font imaging model an industry standard.  As an industry
standard, they can be assured that Linotype, Compugraphic, and everyone
else with raster image processors will continue to support output
from Apple machines.  Although this was also the case with PostScript,
Apple preferred to control the technology which controls the screen
display, and, now, printed output.

The main challenge to Apple (especially if IBM gets involved in
endorsing the Royal format) is remaining technologically ahead of
the others to a degree sufficient to ensure that the format remains
under their control.

John Heckendorn
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