Adobe Type 1 Font Specification Available

Ross A. Jeynes

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Mar 6, 1990, 5:28:58 PM3/6/90

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Quoting from the press release:

"Mountian View, California (March 5th, 1990) - Adobe Systems Incorporated
announced today that it has published the Adobe Type 1 Font Format, a book
containing the complete specifications for Adobe's Type 1 Font format.

"The 102 page book describes the syntax of Adobe's Type 1 font format,
including complete information regarding hints, encoding of character
outlines, and the encryption and decryption algorithms.

"Adobe registered developers will receive a free copy of the book by mail.
All other interested parties may order a copy by calling Adobe Systems in
Mountain View at 1-800-83-FONTS. Attendees at the Seybold Seminars Ninety
publishing conference in Boston can order a copy at the Adobe booth.
Designed to cover Adobe's costs, the price of the book is $14.95."

Ross Jeynes
Developer Support jey...@adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated {sun|decwrl}!adobe!jeynes

J Greely

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Mar 6, 1990, 10:52:54 PM3/6/90

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In article <19...@adobe.UUCP> jey...@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes) writes:
>"Mountian View, California (March 5th, 1990) - Adobe Systems Incorporated
>announced today that it has published the Adobe Type 1 Font Format, a book
>containing the complete specifications for Adobe's Type 1 Font format.

But what *color* is it? :-)

"I stopped thinking of HyperTalk as a
real programming language when I
realized that 'get line 1 of card
field short name of the target' was
*concise*."
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J Greely (jgr...@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)

Ross A. Jeynes

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Mar 7, 1990, 12:49:19 PM3/7/90

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In article <19...@adobe.UUCP> jey...@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes) writes:

>"Adobe registered developers will receive a free copy of the book by mail.
>All other interested parties may order a copy by calling Adobe Systems in
>Mountain View at 1-800-83-FONTS. Attendees at the Seybold Seminars Ninety

Several people have pointed out to me that people outside the U.S. cannot
reach 1-800 numbers. If you wish to order the Type 1 Font Spec., but cannot
reach the 800 number, there are still two other options:

1) Call the Adobe Amsterdam office and ask for Christina Pillitu. The
Amsterdam office number is 31-20-767-661.

2) Call the Adobe Developer Association voice mailbox in Mountain View,
and leave a message requesting the order form, along with your
earth-mail address. The Developer Association voice mailbox number
is (415) 961-4111.

Hope this helps.

Mark Keil

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Mar 7, 1990, 2:09:00 PM3/7/90

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In article <19...@adobe.UUCP> jey...@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes) writes:

> Quoting from the press release:
>
> "Mountian View, California (March 5th, 1990) - Adobe Systems Incorporated
> announced today that it has published the Adobe Type 1 Font Format, a book
> containing the complete specifications for Adobe's Type 1 Font format.

Thanks, Ross! I ordered mine just a minute ago.

Now, the question that many will want to know (and that I forgot to ask on the phone...)

What color will this one be?!

Mark

Mark Keil Apollo Computer, Chelmsford MA 01824
+1 508-256-6600 x2495 ke...@apollo.com / {decvax,mit-erl,yale}!apollo!keil

John Renner

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Mar 7, 1990, 3:41:42 PM3/7/90

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In article <JGREELY.90...@wizard.cis.ohio-state.edu> J Greely <jgr...@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>But what *color* is it? :-)

Its cover is Black & White.
Since the title on the binding spine is on a black field,
I would dub it "The Black Book". ;-)

Larry Spence

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Mar 7, 1990, 6:38:02 PM3/7/90

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Damn! We were betting that the next four books (?!) would be the Cyan,
Magenta, Yellow, and Black Books, in that order.

--
Larry Spence
larry@csccat
...{texbell,texsun}!csccat!larry

gil...@m.cs.uiuc.edu

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Mar 8, 1990, 1:16:42 PM3/8/90

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So who has a copy of the Adobe Type-1 Font Book in front of them?
Can you give us a hint about the ideas in type-1 font specification?

Never Kid A Kidder

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Mar 9, 1990, 6:03:03 PM3/9/90

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In article <3670...@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gil...@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

Can you give us a hint about the ideas in type-1 font specification?

Do you mean, do you want a hint about hints, or do you just want the
ideas to look better at low resolution?

Geoffrey H. Cooper

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Mar 12, 1990, 5:43:48 PM3/12/90

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In article <36...@csccat.UUCP> la...@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) writes:
>In article <19...@adobe.UUCP> ren...@adobe.COM (John Renner) writes:
>>In article <JGREELY.90...@wizard.cis.ohio-state.edu> J Greely <jgr...@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>>>But what *color* is it? :-)
>>
>>Its cover is Black & White.
>>Since the title on the binding spine is on a black field,
>>I would dub it "The Black Book". ;-)
>
>Damn! We were betting that the next four books (?!) would be the Cyan,
>Magenta, Yellow, and Black Books, in that order.

Obviously, this book is so important that it subsumes the hypothetical
Cyan, Magenta and Yellow books. Hence the cover contains a mix of all
three of them.
--
ge...@aurora.com / aurora!ge...@decwrl.dec.com / geof%auror...@decwrl.dec.com

Andrew Stone

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Mar 13, 1990, 11:31:16 PM3/13/90

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In article <JGREELY.90...@wizard.cis.ohio-state.edu> J Greely <jgr...@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

>In article <19...@adobe.UUCP> jey...@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes) writes:
>>"Mountian View, California (March 5th, 1990) - Adobe Systems Incorporated
>>announced today that it has published the Adobe Type 1 Font Format, a book
>>containing the complete specifications for Adobe's Type 1 Font format.
>
>But what *color* is it? :-)
>

It's the "Black And White" book, but its filled with "BlueFuzz" [no
kidding!]. It's well written and quite interesting for those who have
wondered and waited.

>J Greely (jgr...@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)

andrew

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