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A roundtable discussion with nine experts reveals important developments in the typesetting industry. Panel participants are: International Typeface CEO Mark Batty, John Stevens Shop owner John Benson, The Font Bureau's Pres David Berlow, Adobe Systems Inc director of typography Ned Bunnell, Bitstream Inc Senior VP Matthew Carter, Agfa Compugraphic manager of type development Cynthia Hollandsworth, Monotype Managing Dir Rene Kerfante, Monotype Typography type Dir Jeff Level, and Stone Type Foundry Pres Sumner Stone. Topics discussed include the importance of color as a significant development in type technology since 1988, the increasing number of fonts available to users, and the problems that develop because low-end users do not understand how to use fonts.
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Adobe Systems Inc's Type on Call is a disappointing computer font database that is priced at $99. The manual does not include information about ordering fonts, prices or free fonts. Type on Call includes fonts for Adobe font package 210, but newly-released Type on Call 2.0 improves the offering with 265 fonts included. Type on Call 2.0 also offers the Berthold library, a serious omission of the first version. Users will probably get a better price on the discs by buying from mail-order companies rather than from Adobe direct. The discs are generally available for $50, with single fonts sold for as little as $32.50. Until the program is improved users might want to stay with other Adobe font systems.
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Adobe Systems Inc of Mountain View, CA, is demonstrating a technology that promises to bring the paperless office closer to reality. Dubbed Editable or Interchange PostScript, the technology will let users open, view and edit PostScript files, regardless of computing platform. The initial version only prints and views documents, although future versions will feature the ability to edit a file. Editable PostScript will run on Apple Macintosh, DOS- and PC-based microcomputers and most Unix-based workstations. The technology is due for release in commercial form in 1992.
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