schwer@unix.SRI.COM (Len Schwer) (03/08/90)
I've noted the price of Adobe stock has moved up over 5 points in the past two day; not including today. Must be something impressive happening to cause 20% increase in two days! --Len Schwer micro2.schwer@sri.com
larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) (03/08/90)
In article <9889@unix.SRI.COM> schwer@unix.sri.com (Len Schwer) writes: > >I've noted the price of Adobe stock has moved up over 5 points >in the past two day; not including today. Must be something >impressive happening to cause 20% increase in two days! I believe that IBM adopted Adobe's font technology for OS/2. This brings up the gruesome scenario of different font formats in IBM's OS/2 and Microsoft's OS/2. Ugh. I'll be curious to see how the Adobe hinting scheme compares with the Apple Royal scheme, which seems very general. Anyway, congrats to Adobe. I eagerly await my Black Book. -- Larry Spence larry@csccat ...{texbell,texsun}!csccat!larry
baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) (03/08/90)
In article <9889@unix.SRI.COM>, schwer@unix (Len Schwer) writes: >I've noted the price of Adobe stock has moved up over 5 points >in the past two day; not including today. Must be something >impressive happening to cause 20% increase in two days! Might it have something to do with Big Brother's (oops! I mean Big Blue's) statement of intention to standardize on Adobe Postscript for all of their SAA-compliant systems? Boy, first NextStep, now this. What's the world coming to? And given recent events in eastern Europe, pretty soon you won't be able to tell who the bad guys are without a score card... :-) -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman
jeynes@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes) (03/09/90)
In article <3609@csccat.UUCP> larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) writes: >I believe that IBM adopted Adobe's font technology for OS/2. This >brings up the gruesome scenario of different font formats in IBM's OS/2 >and Microsoft's OS/2. Ugh. I'll be curious to see how the Adobe Actually, the announcement was that IBM will support the Adobe font technology in all of their SAA (Systems Applications Architecture) platforms; so this includes much more than just OS/2. It also includes mainframes, AIX platforms, etc. IBM said that they will support the Royal font format, as well as the Adobe fonts, in their version of OS/2, but they also indicated that the Adobe font technology would be the "default." (The official name for Royal is now True Type, I think.) Apparently there has not yet been a decision made about wether True Type will be supported by IBM on platforms other than OS/2. Ross Jeynes Developer Support jeynes@adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated {sun|decwrl}!adobe!jeynes
scott@futures.UUCP (Scott Boyd) (03/09/90)
larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) writes: >In article <9889@unix.SRI.COM> schwer@unix.sri.com (Len Schwer) writes: >> >>I've noted the price of Adobe stock has moved up over 5 points >>in the past two day; not including today. Must be something >>impressive happening to cause 20% increase in two days! >I believe that IBM adopted Adobe's font technology for OS/2. This >brings up the gruesome scenario of different font formats in IBM's OS/2 >and Microsoft's OS/2. Ugh. I'll be curious to see how the Adobe >hinting scheme compares with the Apple Royal scheme, which seems very >general. Actually, IBM just stated they weren't taking sides in the Adobe versus Microsoft/Apple debate. They will let the market decide. In the meantime, Microsoft announced that will provide it's font technology with the generic version of OS/2. Of course, Microsoft doesn't have anything to ship -- so its all vapor anyway. -- +---------------------+-----------------------------+-------------------------+ | Scott Boyd | Security is an illusion, | Commodity Futures, Inc. | | scott@Futures.COM | there is only opportunity! | Woodside, California | +---------------------+-----------------------------+-------------------------+