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Intellifont
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<p>Intellifont is a scalable <a href="/facts/Typeface/It41hIjl">font</a> technology developed by Tom Hawkins at <a href="/facts/Compugraphic/MmIds9JR">Compugraphic</a> in <a href="/facts/Wilmington,_Massachusetts/naFhhPjE">Wilmington, Massachusetts</a> during the late 1980s, the patent for which was granted to Hawkins in 1987. Intellifont fonts were <a href="/facts/Font_hinting/kczEuD0o">hinted</a> on a <a href="/facts/Digital_Equipment_Corporation/ztxs6keA">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> <a href="/facts/VAX/N3r13IHH">VAX</a> <a href="/facts/Mainframe_computer/nrBR6rWa">mainframe</a> computer using <a href="/facts/Ikarus_(typography_software)/bkdlLIFX">Ikarus software</a>. In 1990, printer and computing system manufacturer <a href="/facts/Hewlett-Packard/abuNSYNu">Hewlett-Packard</a> adopted Intellifont scaling as part of its <a href="/facts/Printer_Command_Language/M7C1zrrg">PCL 5</a> printer control protocol, and Intellifont technology was shipped with <a href="/facts/HP_LaserJet/6yJzMrLR">HP LaserJet</a> III and 4 printers. In 1991, <a href="/facts/Commodore_International/SlfXKbCN">Commodore</a> released <a href="/facts/AmigaOS/1E2k1fuN">AmigaOS</a> 2.04, which included a version of <i>diskfont.library</i> that contained the <i>Bullet</i> font scaling engine (which in Workbench 2.1 became a separate library called <i>bullet.library</i>), with native support for the format. Intellifont technology became part of <a href="/facts/Agfa-Gevaert/TNsfjVuj">Agfa-Gevaert's</a> Universal Font Scaling Technology (UFST), which allows <a href="/facts/Original_equipment_manufacturer/hmUhIWaS">OEMs</a> to produce printers capable of printing on either the <a href="/facts/Adobe_systems/Bj1d5XvJ">Adobe systems</a> <a href="/facts/PostScript/h2XwbcmC">PostScript</a> or HP PCL language. </p>