Information I just read on a FrameMaker list....
I just got back from the Helsinki ATypI conference, where Tom Phinney,
Adobe's program manager for fonts and core technologies, basically
said
that Type 1 fonts are dead (but may take a while to lie down and stop
twitching). Adobe hasn't made any new Type 1 fonts for several years -
everything is OpenType now.
...
Adobe is scratching its head about offering some kind of upgrade for
people who have Type 1 fonts but there are lots of problems: not least
that most people don't keep their proofs of purchase (and, unsaid,
that
many people steal fonts).
I've kicked around a few ideas about how future versions of groff
handle fonts, primarily working with the operating system's native
font handling & printing APIs. I've never said anything because I
don't have the expertise to code up even a proof-of-concept, and IIRC
Linux and other Unix-type OSes often leave font & printer handling to
the application.
In any case, the current font handler should be at least a compile-
time option, because I'm sure it's loads faster than any generalized
OS-based handler & there's at least one person out there who depends
on groff's raw formatting speed. Could this be kicked to the post-
processor? That would be the best of both worlds; choose grops when
you value speed over flexibility and gronative (groos? gross?) when
it's the other way around.
--
Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t
Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival"
http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/
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