Type without tears

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Truetype, a new technology from Apple Computer Inc and Microsoft Corp, improves the look of text on computer screens and on printouts. Truetype allows a user to size type, in any increment, and the technology gets rid of jagged lines and broken curves. Truetype - which will be included in the Macintosh's system software, version 7.0, scheduled for release in May 1991, and which will be released in a version that works with Microsoft's Windows on IBM-and-compatible machines later in the year - can already be obtained by Macintosh owners by retrieving a Truetype program from a user group or from an on-line information service such as CompuServe. Truetype will give Macintosh and Windows users a built-in type technology that was previously available only through Adobe Type Manager (ATM) and Adobe's Type 1 outline fonts.

Microsoft Corp., AAPL, MSFT, Type design, Word processing software, Computer fonts, Apple Inc., Font Package, Type and type-founding

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An incentive in multimedia software: Apple's abstained, but now there are multimedia standards

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Companies at Microsoft Corp's Multimedia Developers Conference in late Nov 1990 adopted common standards for multimedia technologies so that there is now an incentive for software companies to develop programs that incorporate sound and animation. The standards call for an IBM-compatible microcomputer with a 10MHz 80286 microprocessor; 2Mbytes of RAM; a 30Mbyte hard drive; VGA graphics; and an ability to work with CD-ROM, audio, video and pointing devices. Companies supporting the standard include: Microsoft Corp, IBM, Tandy, Groupe Bull's Zenith Data Systems, CompuAdd, AT&T, Olivetti, NEC Technologies and Fujitsu America. Conspicuously absent was Apple Computer Inc. A spokesman for Apple says talks have been held with Microsoft about data compatibility across platforms, but so far, nothing has come of the talks.

Computer industry, Microcomputers, Multimedia technology, Multimedia systems, Multimedia software, Compatibility, Microcomputer, Upgrading, Microsoft Multimedia Developers Conference

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