- From: Thomas Reardon <thomasre@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 03:01:30 -0800
- To: "'www-font@w3.org'" <www-font@w3.org>
>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/ > >There are three main pieces to the initiative. > >1) A set of FREE high-quality TrueType fonts for three platforms, >Windows+Mac+Unix. > >2) Announcement that HP is going to deliver a Unix TrueType rasterizer. > >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. > >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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