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Re: Adobe and the whole world???
At 03:33 PM 5/29/99 +0100, Chris Rowley wrote:
>From "About Adobe PostScript
3"
PlanetReady(TM) font handling
Please can someone quickly tell me if this is:
just a trendy name for some hyped-up well-known stuff;
something worth further investigation.
They seem to be mostly referring to support for two-byte fonts using CID
keys and cmaps,
and support for fonts that need more complex support (ligaturing)
available in OpenType
(which includes CFF format and Type 2). Under this umbrella also
apparently falls
Unicode support at least in Windows NT/W2K where Unicode is actually
supported
(but that printer driver appears not to be out yet).
They variously refer to new printer drivers, new fonts, and applications
and operating
systems. Somewhat ill-delimited. Not unusual for company
hype. But the term is
a registered trademark! So they must have thought it worth the $245
application fee
(and the thousands for their lawyers to take a break from two-Martini
lunches
at the golf club to fill in the form).
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/postscript/capabilities.html
Regards, Berthold.
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Mac 8.5.1 Windows 95 4.2.3
Windows NT 5.0
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– for
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European and
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PlanetReady Printing
Adobe PostScript 3 provides users
worldwide with access to its printing solution.
With full support of inter-national font requirements via a new font
technology,
support from leading creative application software titles, and support
for localized
printing anywhere in the world through enhanced drivers, Adobe PostScript
3 is
poised to immediately enhance the printing experience for users
worldwide.
• PlanetReady Printing.
With this feature, Adobe ensures that Adobe PostScript 3 technology is a
complete
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integration
with key operating systems, and the capability to deliver documents to
the broadest
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available in a wide variety of languages to support high quality printing
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