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Post #280,069

by static

3/30/07 6:22:26 AM

Me too.

In the older article I read, IIRC, part of the impetus of TrueType was from fixing the Windows' printing subsystem.

Wade.

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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

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Post #280,070

by pwhysall

3/30/07 7:14:57 AM

Naw.

TrueType was invented by Apple, not MS.

The impetus for using TT was because PS fonts looked shit on screen. That's shit, with a capital shit.

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Post #280,071

by Another Scott

3/30/07 7:32:01 AM

I thought there was much more to it than that.

ATM was supposed to take care of the screen-display issues. My recollection was that MS didn't want to pay for ATM and/or Display Postscript and wanted to use their monopoly to crush Adobe. Apple had some issues with Adobe as well. There may have been font licensing cost issues too.

But I'm unable to check for links at the moment, and could well be misremembering...

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #280,072

by pwhysall

3/30/07 7:55:52 AM

There was.

ATM was shit.

Hence the problem.

There might have been business/nefarious reasons, but ATM's utter crapitude was the principle driver, I wot.

Post #280,228

by static

4/1/07 8:33:48 AM

Oh yeah - so it was.

My bad. Dunno how I could misremember that... :-?

That means I don't remember the Big Clever thing that happened to the Windows print subsystem. It might have been a real programmer-y thing like actually create some decent and functional abstraction in the API stack.

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

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Alex St. John and the Monopoly - (inthane-chan) - (14) - March 29, 2007, 01:14:00 PM EDT

Link? -NT - (admin) - (1) - March 29, 2007, 01:12:31 PM EDT

Oops. Fixed. -NT - (inthane-chan) - March 29, 2007, 01:14:07 PM EDT

Interesting interview. Thanks for the link. -NT - (Another Scott) - March 29, 2007, 01:25:39 PM EDT

Very good article -NT - (crazy) - March 29, 2007, 06:49:08 PM EDT

'Nother good quote - (drewk) - March 29, 2007, 08:20:47 PM EDT

He likes telling his stories. - (static) - (6) - March 29, 2007, 09:01:49 PM EDT

I wish they'd followed up on that - (drewk) - (5) - March 30, 2007, 03:44:33 AM EDT

Me too. - (static) - (4) - March 30, 2007, 06:22:26 AM EDT

Naw. - (pwhysall) - (3) - March 30, 2007, 07:14:57 AM EDT

I thought there was much more to it than that. - (Another Scott) - (1) - March 30, 2007, 07:32:01 AM EDT

There was. - (pwhysall) - March 30, 2007, 07:55:52 AM EDT

Oh yeah - so it was. - (static) - April 1, 2007, 08:33:48 AM EDT

re. that "printing system" tale - (Ashton) - March 30, 2007, 04:56:30 AM EDT

Second part of the interview is up. - (inthane-chan) - April 13, 2007, 12:28:07 PM EDT

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