Re: Infoworld take on Apple-Adobe-NS Font annc

Rohit Khare (khare@pest.w3.org)
Tue, 27 Feb 96 21:47:15 -0500


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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 21:41:50 EST
From: lee@sq.com
To: khare@w3.org, www-font@w3.org
Subject: Re: Infoworld take on Apple-Adobe-NS Font annc

Rohit Khare <khare@pest.w3.org> wrote:
> And there will be another major annc very soon now, from a Conspicuously
> Absent Player...
>
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> Adobe, Netscape, Apple at work on HTML font standard
>

Microsoft's press release went out earlier today.
Their scheme allows only TrueType fonts to be embedded, and I assume it'll
be incompatible with the Netscape/Apple/Adobe method.

Are any of these people using Bitstream TrueDoc? Doesn't look like it.
Does that mean there'll be a third announcement from Spyglass, or am I
misreading things?

Lee