crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (06/17/91)
> A nit: MicroSoft was working on "TrueImage," a PostScript clone. > "TrueType" is a font technology, and it is already being shipped > by Apple. WinDoze will probably ship with it sometime soon. Thanks for supplying that info. That makes more sense. TrueType _has_ made a dent as a font (not general page description) imaging technology; It (TrueType) does a good job in Apple Macintosh System 7. I wonder if current Apple printers like the StyleWriter use TrueType for font outline imaging (or just scaling which is part of imaging) but QuickDraw for other graphics imaging. Does anyone know if Apple was planning on using TrueImage in its printers to help introduce another well-defined page description language? (So, perhaps there is a chance it will go back to working on low-cost PostScript printers and thus stay more compatible with NeXT.) I think this discussion can be moved to one of comp.periphs.printers, comp.fonts and comp.graphics. Gary