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>I thought you all might be interested in reading about Microsoft's
>recent font initiative.  You can find out more at
>http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/
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>There are three main pieces to the initiative.
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>1) A set of FREE high-quality TrueType fonts for three platforms,
>Windows+Mac+Unix.
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>2) Announcement that HP is going to deliver a Unix TrueType rasterizer.
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>3) Most importantly, a refocusing of our existing font embedding
>technology to the Web, such that fonts can be embedded on websites and
>downloaded piecemeal.  The fonts are also 'embedded' in the sense that
>they can be tied for use with only certain websites, thereby protecting
>the intellectual property of the font designer.  Much of this
>technology has been championed and defined by the font industry itself,
>and Microsoft, as proxy, will offer the downloading protocol to W3C for
>further standardization.
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>Point #3 needs clarification, because some folks have taken this to
>mean that Microsoft is trying to make TrueType the only font format for
>the Web.  This is not true.  The embedding & downloading specification
>will allow for Adobe Type 1 as well as TrueType.
>
>If you have thoughts or comments, please direct them to Bill Hill
><billhill@microsoft.com>, who runs the Microsoft Typography Group.
>
>-Thomas Reardon
>Microsoft
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