[wlug] Re: Farewell, Type-1 Fonts

I wrote:

... the PostScript language was an open, published spec, but the high-quality font format that Adobe’s printers used was not.

Of course, Adobe never made any printers. It developed its PostScript implementation, and licensed this to makers of printers (like the famous Apple LaserWriter, built on the popular Canon LBP-CX laser-printer engine) and phototypesetters (from Linotronic etc).