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to the public, instantly making PostScript an open-font standard so developers

could create fonts without paying licensing fees to Adobe.

The two announcements had the potential to split the industry into two

camps — those who would develop for Adobe’s PostScript and continue to

support PostScript in their printers, and those who would side with Microsoft

and Apple and the companies who had committed their support to the new

standards.

In December 1989, as the battle with Apple continued, Adobe gave the

code for its Adobe Type Manager to Insight

Development Corporation so it could begin developing software drivers

for MacPrint and JetWriter. This move enabled Mac users to print on inexpensive

Hewlett-Packard LaserJet and DeskJet printers instead of the $7,000 Apple

LaserWriter.

In 1990, Adobe gained ground when IBM announced that it would support

Adobe’s Type 1 fonts as well as Apple’s new emerging technology called

Royal fonts. Although not committing to Adobe exclusively, at least IBM

did not abandon Adobe by joining with Apple and Microsoft.

Because of the loss of revenue from Apple, in June 1990, Adobe’s stock

dropped 30 percent and stockholders filed a lawsuit claiming that Adobe

had given out misleading sales projections and had artificially inflated

the value of the company’s stock.

Electronic Publishing and the Internet

By September 1990 the feud between Adobe and Apple mysteriously disappeared

and they had a licensing agreement to create new products based on Apple’s

printer technology and Adobe’s PostScript. Then in December 1991, Adobe

agreed to deliver Type 1 fonts for Macintosh users and to include Type

1 fonts for Adobe Type Manager (ATM) in future versions of the Macintosh

System 7 to control both displays and printers.

For Adobe, 1992 contained both good and bad news. The class-action lawsuit