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Name: Toby Thain
Member since: 2003-01-30 12:36:41
Last Login: N/A

Homepage: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/

Notes:

PostScript/Mac/UNIX developer since 1986, resident in Melbourne, Australia. PostScript-based graphic arts has been my full-time occupation since 1987.

collector of 32-bit UNIX hardware (donations sought :)

graphic designer and photographer

typographer and type designer

I'm responsible for:

plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

contributor of original colour dither algorithm to Mathematica's Mac front-end (1989)

early port of TeX & METAFONT to Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (ca 1990)

only known port of TeX & METAFONT to Inmos Transputer (Mac host) (ca 1990)

paper (1992), Packing METAFONTs into PostScript, TUGboat 13(1)--Using native PK-compressed bitmap fonts with a PostScript RIP. Accompanying code is a candidate for an "Obfuscated PostScript" contest 8-)

probable first port of GhostScript to Mac MPW (ca 1991)

first port of TeX & METAFONT to Power Macintosh (1993)

ongoing research in digital typography, image processing and stochastic screening

Developer of various free and/or GPL plugins for Illustrator and Photoshop (see http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

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