Re: OT: Free Fonts

From: Eric Muller (emuller@adobe.com)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 15:15:47 EST

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    John Hudson wrote:

    > ClearType is a proprietary renderer that Microsoft don't share with
    > anyone.

    Although that is changing:

    http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/03/HNmicrosoftip_1.html

    Towards the end:

        Microsoft expects most licensing arrangements to be made one-on-one
        with interested companies. Formal programs such as the ClearType and
        FAT system arrangements will be relatively rare, Kaefer said.
        Microsoft picked those two technologies as its licensing guinea pigs
        because it had outside vendors interested in becoming customers.
        Agfa Monotype Corp. plans to use ClearType-related technology in its
        iType font rendering system, [...]

    Eric.



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