bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson) (09/23/89)
Here's Adobe's Press release of what has been announced.
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ADOBE TO PUBLISH ITS PROPRIETARY FONT FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS
PostScript Developer to Offer Open Font Technology
San Francisco, CA. (September 20, 1989)- Adobe Systems Incorporated
has announced plans to publish the complete specifications for
PostScript language Type 1 format fonts. Until today's announcement,
Adobe has licensed tools to major type foundries for developing Type 1
format font software, but retained the specifications as its own.
Today's announcement makes Adobe's entire PostScript strategy an open
technology, designed to benefit developers and end users alike. The
announcement was made during the opening session of the Seybold
Computer Publishing Conference and Exhibition, being held here this
week.
"We will publish the enbtire specification of the PostScript language,
including the Type 1 font format, thus making it a truly open
technology," said Dr. John Warnock, Chairman and CEO of Adobe
Systems. "We will offer this as a complete specification suitable for
international standardization."
"Adobe will compete on the excellence of its products and its
implementations," said Dr. Charles Geschke, President and Chief
Operating Officer, Adobe Systems. "We are confident that the quality
of our software and hardware technology, as well as our established
service and support to our customers, will continue to make us a very
successful company."
Adobe officials stated the documentation for the Type 1 format
specifications will be published and available to the industry by the
first quarter of 1990.
"Adobe and the PostScript language have served the printing,
publishing, and computing industries exceedingly well over the last
five years. We have played a vital role in the evolution of
electronic printing by enabling personal computers to achieve the same
high quality output as high-end publishing systems," said Warnock.
Every major computer vendor, printer and typesetter company, font
supplier and software developer supports PostScript technology from
Adobe. To date, there are over sixty Adobe PostScript printing
devices on the market and over four thousand applications that support
the PostScript language standard.
"PostScript is too important to the industry for us to stand in the
way of a unified printing and font technology. Multiple formats will
only serve to confuse users and impede the progress of computing and
publishing," said Geschke.
For more information, please contact Brenda Hansen, Adobe Systems
Incorporated, P.O. Box 7900, Mountain View, California, 94039.
Telephone: (415) 961-4400.
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PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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Brian Bezanson bezanson@adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated The opinions expressed above are my
own and may not represent those of Adobe.