@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Bitstream. In the late 90s they were marketing a technology called PFR which basically executed a font, creating a per-glyph bitmap which was then curve fitted to make a new glyph in their totally-not-a-font and thus, they claimed, any font license on the original font did not apply.

They licensed it to Netscape who used it in Netscape Navigator 4.x browsers.

It was dropped when Netscape was rewritten to make Firefox, because of the Bitstream license.