Reg - Linotype copyright action on Adobe-format fonts

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Wed Dec 19 08:40:08 PST 2001


At 11:47 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Petro wrote:
>	That would be utterly pointless (no pun intended). The value of 
>Postscript is that it *isn't* a set of pixels.

No, it wouldn't be pointless.  Postscript is not the only way
to print.

It is the equivalent of using a function that approximates the sine()
function to generate a table of trig values.  The function's code
is copyrighted, but the table of values isn't.  And yes, there
are still uses for tables of trig values.





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