You'll have to read the fonts chapter -- better yet the entire book -- to find out <g>. I do know Jim von Ehr, formerly of Altsys, although I haven't talked to him for some time.
Throughout history, there has always been a rancorous debate about who did what when, and this era is no exception. All I can say is what I know from my research and that is that PostScript was the foundation of everything Adobe did back then. PostScript is based on Beziers. Fontographer is based on Beziers. Neither Adobe nor Altsys invented the Bezier. Pierre Bezier did.
As with all great revolutions, many players contributed, including Altsys (which I do indeed mention). But this book is primarily about Adobe's participation in that revolution.
Is there a mention in the book of the contribution of the founder of Altsys? Did he collaborate with Adobe on font creation tools? He came out with Fontographer fairly early on if my memory serves me right. His first name is Jim.
I would also think that Adobe had to come up with an in-house application for font generation and am curious about that.
Did these font creation tools precede Postscript draw programs? Did they contribute to the interface of the bezier curve interface elements (anchor points, direction lines, etc.) That interface element seems to be a pretty important development.
Submitted by Jak Keyser on Tue, 12/03/2002 - 08:34.
Re: Altsys
You'll have to read the fonts chapter -- better yet the entire book -- to find out <g>. I do know Jim von Ehr, formerly of Altsys, although I haven't talked to him for some time.
Throughout history, there has always been a rancorous debate about who did what when, and this era is no exception. All I can say is what I know from my research and that is that PostScript was the foundation of everything Adobe did back then. PostScript is based on Beziers. Fontographer is based on Beziers. Neither Adobe nor Altsys invented the Bezier. Pierre Bezier did.
As with all great revolutions, many players contributed, including Altsys (which I do indeed mention). But this book is primarily about Adobe's participation in that revolution.
Pamela Pfiffner
Altsys contribution - Fontographer
Is there a mention in the book of the contribution of the founder of Altsys? Did he collaborate with Adobe on font creation tools? He came out with Fontographer fairly early on if my memory serves me right. His first name is Jim.
I would also think that Adobe had to come up with an in-house application for font generation and am curious about that.
Did these font creation tools precede Postscript draw programs? Did they contribute to the interface of the bezier curve interface elements (anchor points, direction lines, etc.) That interface element seems to be a pretty important development.