Thomas Phinney,
Could email me your email address, or your email address at Adobe, and phone number, too?
When I visited San Francisco in 1989/90 at the first annual USA/USSR Developers Conference sponsored by Apple and MacWorld, my brother and I stayed at Marriot Residence between Palo Alto and Cupertino. It was nice to shop there in outdoor malls.
Adobe was in Palo Alto, had two buildings, and moved later to San Jose because Steve Jobs' socks stunk (nothing personal, Steve, but you jogged a lot in your thirties, and mumurred under your breath that you'll that you'll teach that guy a thing or two one day {I think you were at Next or Pixal (sp)}). We didn't meet Robert Slimbach either - maybe he wasn't there yet. But John Warnock walked from one building to the other (he couldn't afford in those days, poor John). We looked at each other eye to eye; two bearded people do that, you know. I thought: "Hey, thats Jon Warnock." He likely thought: "Hey, what that bearded ultra-Orthodox doing here; he should in San Francisco or Southern California, but in Silicon Valley."
John was right. I couldn't some kosher steaks, nowhere nearby, and I was hungry! So, my brother and drove down to San Jose where they had a budding Orthodox community in the either very late eighties, or very early nineties.
Aldus was PageMaker and Freehand, purchased from the Texas makers of Fontographer, and Macromedia was growing into a giant, just like Adobe.
But Adobe grew much bigger and gobbled up Macromedia, after it gobbled up Aldus (what am I gonna do with Freehand?, Adobe execs thought, which was sold to Macromedia before they gobbled up Macromedia (what are we gonna do with Freehand and Fontographer now, Adobe execs thought - so they sold Fontographer to FontLab and killed poor little Freehand - why Adobe didn't turn Macromedia Fontographer into Adobe Fontographer (Freehand was a character window from Fontographer with sophicated color model editing feature that were easy to use, unlike Illustrator - but poor Freehand, may it rest in peace, tear, tear)with advanced OpenType editing, really cool hinting tools, Unicode 5 support just like FontLab, and flush FontLab the toilet and that whole for itself? I just know understand it. I mean, how stupid can you get. Adobe, why don't just buy FontLab and Fontographer before Apple buys them and comes out with Apple NewType!!
NewType is Apple's way to point the finger to Adobe and Microsoft. Its every OpenType is and a whole lot font, with an intuitive font editor called Apple Fontographer Plus. First it was the iMac. Then, it was the Intel processor. Afterwards, it was (will be) NewType(tradebook). Then, its Steve Job's bombshell. System 11. Faster than a speeding bullet.
Clark Kent, I mean, Bill Gates won't know hit it. I'm ruined. Multi-taking triple-processor compatible operating system which makes a Cray computer look stupid. Forget it, I'm retiring, say Bill. Steve won. Adobe, if you don't Fontographer and bury FontLab, Apple will gobble you up! Do you know what that means? You move back all the way to Cupertino, Apple buys up more real estate in Palo Alto and remames it Cupertino II. The prices of houses there sky-rocket. And you hope to tranfered to North Cupertino, located in what was Seatle.
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