Sun Microsystems Inc is to include Adobe Systems Inc’s Display PostScript in its Solaris implementation of Unix for Sparc- and iAPX-86-based machines, the two announced yesterday. Sun’s SunSoft expects Solaris with Display PostScript to be available in 1993. Adobe will also do versions of its Illustrator and Photoshop applications for the Solaris environment, and these, too are expected to be available in 1993. Sun will also work with Adobe to make Adobe’s new document communication technology, code-named Carousel, successful in the Unix market. And Adobe and SunPics, the printing business of Sun, signed a letter of intent to use Adobe’s PostScript Level 2 technology in SunPics’ future software offerings. SunSoft will include some Adobe Type 1 fonts in the Solaris environment and Solaris and Sun’s PostScript Level 2 printing system will support both Type 1 and Sun’s F3 Folio font formats.
