This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#Help! Denon Driver …
Message #21161
Jeff: We're in the same boat here at Altsys regarding the Denon CDROM and Windows 3.1. Can't find any updated drivers or support. If you evoff er find anything, we'd sure be happy to hear about it. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
Thom: (replying for Pete) Yes, Metamorphosis preserves a font's kerning tables. That was one feature I insisted _had_ to be implemented and the implementors finally agreed that it was an important addition. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
Ha! Lots of naked lawyers running around. Wouldn't be a pretty sight…except I know some rather good looking female lawyers. grin> Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
RE: the hypothetical "Dan's Font-o-matic" which would suck Fontographer out of the ROM, and also perhaps slices, dices, etc… I am going to attempt to quell any uneasiness about Metamorphosis as some kind of evil pirate program. First off, what does Meta do? It allows a font owner to convert…
Peter: Personal experience shows that there are some excellent fonts from Image Club, and some really execrable ones. My opinion may be colored by the fact that Image Club had only _one_ copy of Fontographer and at least 15 people using that one copy. They now site license Fontographer, but…
jon: Metamorphosis is a disassembler, not a copying machine. It is a tool, not the use to which it is put. How could ITC or URW slap us with an injunction, when Apple allows MacNosy and other disassemblers which could be used to duplicate the Mac ROMs? If someone duplicates…
Tripp: Neither you nor Adobe have done this because it would not be good to be publicly known as someone who rips off the hard work of others as general business practice. I am told that Bitstream has a "take it or leave it" royalty payment policy, and if the…
jon: Royal metrics reside in Royalty itself. Have you ever seen a FOND? If APDA doesn't have the Royal specs, I don't know where you can get them. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
Tripp: I have more than just a feeling that Royal will deal with this problem in a very transportable manner. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
Lawyers don't like to talk about obligations vs law because if the idea got too popular there would be much less need for lawyers. The USA has only twice the population of Japan, but 15 times as many lawyers. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
Thom: Just because Adobe steals font designs is no justification for your doing it. I am under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that Adobe _licenses_ their font designs from ITC, Zapf, etc. and does not "steal" them. Some of the newer Adobe releases (Stone, for instance) were designed in-house at Adobe…
#Y U Would Want Royal
Message #6068
Tripp: I think you missed part of the point of Royal. With Royal (as with Display PostScript, BTW) there don't have to be any pre-created screen fonts. They are created on the fly. You can, on the Mac at least, pre-create some sizes of screen font, but the only advantage…
David: It depends on who views what as sacred. As has been noted elsewhere, sacred is in the mind of the sanctifyer. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support (who refers back to his answer to Thom for further clarification on the nature of sacredness)
Thom: Copyright law _does not_ (and probably will not ever) cover the outline shapes of a typeface. It's just too difficult to determine where the shapes came from and whether or not they are unique. There is some contention over whether or not the _code_ required to create the outlines…
Dan: Yes. Yes. Yes. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support (who reminds everyone of Adobe's promise to release the Type 1 specs on March 31, 1990)
Jonathan: Well, there you have it. Metamorphosis does appear to be one solution to your problem. We hope many people see Metamorphosis as a way around the cost of duplicating font libraries in both Adobe and Royal systems. I might point out that no presently available Altsys product produces Royal,…
Thom: The present beta version has only one known anomaly. When there are no anomalies for a week, Metamorphosis will ship. I'm going to guess February, but that might be too conservative a guess. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
#Y U Would Want Royal
Message #6062
Thom: Yes, I have had some "sneak previews" but no, I can't tell you anything about what I have seen. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
I've got some replies to your questions about what the MS-Apple deal will solve. Performance? You bet. No matter how much we may all love Adobe's PS, there's no denying that it's incredibly, and sometimes miraculously, SLOW. Much of the reason for that is probably its "less than admirable" (I'm…
At Altsys, we're fairly certain that different filling and stroking algorithms are used in Type 1. We believe that when a PS outline is rasterized, pixels which the path goes over are turned on only if more than half the pixel would be covered by the fill (in Type 1).…
Yes, and all those vendors who are presently vending type III will likely be using either Metamorphosis or Fontographer to do the conversion to type I. Earl
I had the opposite reaction; I think that System 7, along with some other developments, will help a great deal. I have more faith in the conversion process from PostScript to Royal. There is no reason that the Royal versions couldn't have precisely the same widths, etc., as the PostScript…
Kevin: Virtually all Macintosh programs support PostScript output through the LaserWriter driver. As for the MessDOS side, things are a mess and I have no idea what might be going on. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support
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Font Downloader
Message #7584
Colin: Thanks for the tip on LaserStatus. If you really want to write a Fontographer review, please send details and plans Eplex to me. We'd be more than happy to work something out. The only PostScript fonts available for the Mac that aren't made with Fontographer are the ones from…
Of course! what other program would they use? Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support (Publisher's Type Foundry??????????)
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#Hi-Res Printer Choice?
Message #7352
What's wrong with the CG fonts?
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Adobe NFNTs?
Message #6325
As you saw from Howard's message, he doesn't release families (at least not yet–he recently received our Family Builder, which BTW, can solve your problem too). Sorry for the misinformation. I misunderstood (and misremembered) something he told me over the phone. The eye is mightier than the ear. Earl Allen,…