Intellifont is a scalable
font
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technology developed by Tom Hawkins at
Compugraphic in
Wilmington, Massachusetts 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 mainframe
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computer using
Ikarus software. In 1990, printer and computing system manufacturer
Hewlett-Packard adopted Intellifont scaling as part of its
PCL 5
Printer Command Language, more commonly referred to as PCL, is a page description language (PDL) developed by Hewlett-Packard as a printer protocol and has become a ''de facto'' industry standard. Originally developed for early inkjet printers i ...
printer control protocol, and Intellifont technology was shipped with
HP LaserJet
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III and 4 printers. In 1991,
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
OEMs to produce printers capable of printing on either the
Adobe systems PostScript
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or HP PCL language.
See also
*
PCL PCL may refer to:
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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