The recent thread dealing with the proper term for applying Norton Utilities to Adobe Type Manager was not properly informed. It was a clever _hack_, not an illegal crack. There is nothing illegal about viewing invisible folders or copying bit-mapped fonts.
Around the time Type on Call was first released, 1989 or early 90s, a US court had recently determined that intellectual property rights for typefaces was limited to Postscript rendering algorithms: the computer code. The court explicitly excluded protection for displaying the results of those algorithms: the bit maps. Copying bit-mapped fonts of a given typeface at a given resolution was suddenly not piracy. Overnight, BBS and AOL font download libraries became filled with bit-mapped fonts of popular typefaces. Rather than publish their entire bit-map library free for the average consumer, Adobe placed Type On Call bit-maps in invisible folders. Adobe also fought back by licensing Adobe Type Manager free with MacOS installers, to help make bit-maps into second-class citizens in the eyes of dot-matrix consumers as well as Postscript professionals. The Norton Utility _hack_ is one of many ways one can review and copy the contents of Type On Call's invisible folders. Adobe's legal intellectual property remains protected by Adobe's encryption of the Postscript typefaces. If you don't believe this, go look it up. It is a matter of public record. I specifically recall Mac-the-Knife's gleeful and explicit coverage in MacWeek magazine. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
