From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Sat Dec 04 2004 - 14:10:18 CST
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> What is strange also is that the www.opentype.org web site is a page
> whose title refers to "Arial Unicode MS". Isn't it a Microsoft font?
> These things all combined are very intrigating.
Arial is a Monotype face: design, copyright, trademark. Always has been. Arial Unicode MS
is one font in the Arial family, made for MS but still Monotype's IP.
> Is there a way outside OpenType for other system vendors than Microsoft
> and Apple? This standard loks more and more proprietary...
It has always been a proprietary font format. It has never been anything but proprietary.
It doesn't claim to be a 'standard': it is a font format that happens to be more widely
supported than other font formats.
John Hudson
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