orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb) (03/21/91)
There have been some questions on the net lately about Adobe's policy for fonts on Unix platforms. I talked to our marketing folks and hopefully we can shed some light on our direction in the Unix market. NeXT ---- At the time that Adobe Illustrator for NeXT ships (end of May) we also plan to have the entire Adobe Font Library available for NeXT users. We will manage this in several stages. The first priority is to get the Adobe Plus Pack onto 1.44Mb floppies, followed by the traditional Adobe Type Sets 1,2, & 3, on floppies. We will then make available the entire folio on CD for those users (services bureaus, etc.) who want to buy the entire library. At the same time as the CD we hope to have all the fonts in the the entire Adobe Library available by individual order directly through Adobe and possibly through some of our distributors. This latter step involves a customer calling our 800 number, ordering the specific family(ies) and Adobe producing them on an as ordered basis. Once we know what the popular families are outside of the Plus Pack and Type Sets we will inventory them. Again, this is late May we're talking about but if everything goes right the Adobe/NeXT font situation will be completely resolved by then. Also note that eventually we hope to go to the Type On Call approach. As for people who have bought the fonts on a Mac or PC we will work out some type of reasonable licensing exchange fee so they are not paying for the fonts all over again. And regarding the MultiMaster technology, Adobe will bring that to the NeXT platform but our first priority is to get the above straightened out. DEC --- DEC has just licensed the entire Font Library from Adobe and will be distributing it through their channels. Carl 8-)