Thanks Steve. I was counting on someone to know what I did not remember.
On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:26 , steve harley wrote: > on 2012-08-27 3:26 Joseph McAllister wrote >> When the Mac came out in 1984, it was shortly followed, thanks to Adobe >> selling Jobs the font technology used by Apple Laser Printers, which put >> tens of thousands of printers and font designers working at home. "Desktop >> Printing" became a buzzword in those years. That was the only time I can >> think of that for a year or two you had to buy an Apple printer to do the >> job. Soon HP and Brother came out with similar printers, which ALL cost too >> much because of the very high per unit prices Adobe charged Apple and the >> others to use ROMs running their patented font drawing software whose name I >> cannot think of now. > > i think you mean "Desktop Publishing", and of course PostScript is the page > description (and font-drawing) language; i was in on the ground floor of the > movement, abandoning software development for a while, and producing books & > magazines, then working in prepress shops; PostScript printers were > expensive, but for what they enabled they were affordable; for years the > masters for Zymurgy magazine and all the books of the Association of Brewers > (my second DTP job) were made on a LaserWriter Plus, and then a Newgen 400dpi > printer, at huge cost-savings > > >> That lasted for a while, then Apple addressed the costs by coming out with >> their own (or purchased) fonts design called TrueType that gave damn near >> the quality of Adobe's system. Apple gave those away, followed by most all >> fonts being converted into TrueType. > > it did impact Adobe, but at the time PostScript fonts still competed well > with TrueType and there was not a wholesale "conversion" to TrueType; it was > years before prepress companies were comfortable accepting jobs using > Truetype fonts; Adobe still doesn't produce TrueType fonts, and its catalog > of PostScript-based fonts is still the gold standard, though many of the > fonts are licensed from other foundries which do produce TrueType versions, > it matters little in the end because OpenType is agnostic to TrueType and > PostScript Joseph McAllister [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
