Reg - Linotype copyright action on Adobe-format fonts

[Petro]

(Yes, a late reply)

On Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 08:40 AM, David Honig wrote:

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

	What I was responding to was talking about shipping fonts as 
bitmaps. Bitmaps are not functions, they are not line descriptions.

	You know this.

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> 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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