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FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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Opinion: Marek Williams
On comp.fonts, Marek Williams offered this opinion on Opentype on January 31, 2002: "Yes, I am aware of the fact that the OpenType specification is free for anyone to use. But in spite of the fact that it has been available for over two years, not one single text font has been released by any foundry other than Adobe. It's a de facto monopoly. FontLab is the first with a price tag within the reach of ordinary folks, but there have been OpenType tools for some time and the major foundries could easily have been using them to create OpenType fonts. There are some non-Adobe OpenType fonts that have been released, but almost all of them are Arabic or Japanese. I understand that OpenType is a major advance for Arabic, where characters change according to the surrounding characters--- sort of like what English would be if we had several dozen ligature combinations and they were mandatory. This makes it not surprising that Arabic fonts would be made available quickly in OpenType format." |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |