From: Peter R. Mueller-Roemer (pmr@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de)
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 07:04:06 CST
John Hudson wrote:
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> John Hudson
>
wITH 'it' you refer to OpenType ? So OpentType are Type-faces= fonts
that are only open by leaving technical details unrestricted to
font-designers, text-processing-software?
Then it's name is another MISNOMER (the word Open can't be made
proprietary by itself, so it is not illegal) that a lot of customers
MISUNDERSTAND, and thus it is MISLEADING and unfair to your customers.
The Unicode-Standard I hope is Open in the sense that any font that is
designed to this standard may call itself a unicode-font (complete or
partial ...).
Unicode has a great potential to remove the language-specific boundaries
from web-communication, but if allmost equivalent fonts (& SW to read,
write and print) are not freely available for private use, than its
accepance will not be so wide as is necessary to enable multi-lingual
communication!
Peter MR
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