es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (02/10/90)
In the latest Amazing Computing magazine there is an article on ComDex 89. These comments are NOT from the Bandito, but are presented as facts. They make for quite interesting reading: "Later getting back into the mainstream of the show I dropped in at the Agfa-Compugraphic booth to discuss the use of their fonts in the recently released Professional Page 1.3. I also wanted to check out the rumor that I had heard that the scalable font system for AmigaDos that Commodore announced at the Developers' Conference in June was in fact the Compugraphic Intellifont technology. The Compugraphic representative was quite open on this subject and even gave me a press release announcing the licensing agreement for incorporating Intellifont into Workbench. This was rather exciting news since it will give the Amiga state-of-the-art high speed and high quality screen and printer type (for both dot matrix and laser printers) integrated at the operating system level. Current progress on incorporating the Intellifont system in AmigaDos 1.4 is proceeding smoothly, and if the latter is released in early spring as is speculated, the Amiga will be the first major personal computer system to have a fully integrated scaleable font system. Support will be provided for the standard set of 35 typefaces found in most Postscript printers (possibly as a bundle included with AmigaDos 1.4; although a decision has not been made on this as yet). Approximately 100 additional typefaces will be made available for separate purchase at about the same time as the release of 1.4, and Compugraphic will continue working at porting over many of the additional 1700 typefaces available in their font library. Hewlett-Packard has also announced that they will include Intellifont support into their printer controllers for Level 5 of PCL (Printer Control Language) in the next generation of their laser printers. Compugraphic has also decided to make Gold Disk the exclusive distribution channel for the sale of Amiga Intellifonts for at least the initial year after release. Well, any comments, confirmations, denials?? This is a major issue and if it IS true, 1.4 is all that much better. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Compu$erve : 70137,3271 Anyone giving away Amigas or Sharp Scanners???