Intellifont is a scalable
font
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In mod ...
technology developed by Tom Hawkins at
Compugraphic
Compugraphic Corporation, commonly called cg, was an American producer of typesetting systems and phototypesetting equipment, based in Wilmington, Massachusetts, just a few miles from where it was founded. This company is distinct from Compugraph ...
in
Wilmington, Massachusetts
Wilmington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Its population was 23,349 at the 2020 United States census.
History
Wilmington was first settled in 1665 and was officially incorporated in 1730, from parts of Woburn, Readi ...
during the late 1980s, the patent for which was granted to Hawkins in 1987. Intellifont fonts were
hinted on a
Digital Equipment Corporation
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VAX
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mainframe computer using
Ikarus software. In 1990, printer and computing system manufacturer
Hewlett-Packard
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adopted Intellifont scaling as part of its
PCL 5 printer control protocol, and Intellifont technology was shipped with
HP LaserJet
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III and 4 printers. In 1991,
Commodore
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* Air commodore ...
released
AmigaOS
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2.04, which included a version of ''diskfont.library'' that contained the ''Bullet'' font scaling engine (which in Workbench 2.1 became a separate library called ''bullet.library''), with native support for the format. Intellifont technology became part of
Agfa-Gevaert's Universal Font Scaling Technology (UFST), which allows
OEM
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s to produce printers capable of printing on either the
Adobe systems
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and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the crea ...
PostScript
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or HP PCL language.
See also
*
PCL
References
Further reading
*
*{{cite book , title=Creating Intellifont-Compatible Fonts Using the Agfa Compugraphic FAIS Standard , publisher=
Agfa Compugraphic Typographic Systems Division , date=1990 (NB. FAIS = Font Access Interchange Standard.)
External links
Font archiveMethod for construction of a scalable font database
Typesetting
Digital typography
Font formats
Wilmington, Massachusetts
AmigaOS