Hess@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA.UUCP (04/04/87)
Someone was bemoaning the fact that only Linotronic fonts were available
for PostScript printers from Allied, via Adobe. The most recent Seybold
report previewed a Varityper 600-dpi fine-toner laser printer. The
machine is supposed to come with a 20Mb hard disk in the lid, and the
Atlas controller from Adobe. But more significant than the speed of the
controller, the storage available (as opposed to ROM) for fonts, or even
the twice-as-good resolution is the announcement that the fonts will be
AM(?)'s and not Allied's. So, presumably, some day in the far future,
you'll be able to get disks with Allied fonts and other disks with
others' fonts, all commercially licensed and reduced to curves at Adobe!
Which is wonderful -- how often have you heard someone say "wish they'd
get around to doing <insert your logo type font here>..."?
Brian