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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