Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!bmug From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Let The Font Wars Begin Message-ID: <1989Sep27.221740.18153@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 22:17:40 GMT References: <2560@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Reply-To: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 29 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 /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarne |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (415) 549-2684 | |