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Many users of the first generation of PC’s will remember the excitement of acquiring, at not inconsiderable expense, their first set of new bitmapped fonts, which came in only a few fixed point sizes, and watching proudly as they printed out on a noisy matrix printer, giving a whole new style to the printed page.
Font collectors later became clipart collectors, as many of the early painting applications bundled a miscellaneous assortment of black and white bitmapped clipart images on an extra diskette included with the software. With the advent of drawing applications, vector clipart started to appear, with quality improving rapidly as the market developed. Then, as CD technology arrived on the desktop, whole CD ...
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