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- From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Pagestream/ImageClubFonts
- Message-ID: <69918@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:32:57 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <1e9ag7INNpa8@uwm.edu> <69807@cup.portal.com>
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- The preceding text has been deleted to save space. Basically the writer is
- not satisfied with the quality of the Image Club fonts that Soft-Logik
- markets. The problems he sees are 1) Numerials not all the same width, 2)
- poor letterspacing in general and 3) poor quality when printed at 300 DPI.
-
- >
- >A long post. I'm attempting not to "flame" in this message and I understand
- >that I bought a cheap product and got burned by it. I just want others to
- >know that if they want decent, usable Postscript Type 1 typefaces that
- >Soft-Logik doesn't have such a product and you should be prepared to pay more
- >to get decent product.
-
-
- Michael Loader, of Soft-Logik was send a copy of the post and has responded.
- His response follows:
-
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-
- The Soft-Logik Typeface Library is NOT low quality. These are high
- quality professional fonts licensed from Image Club, one of the largest
- Mac and PC font and art houses. These fonts will render well to any
- PostScript laser printer from any application that is PostScript compatible.
- They will not render quite as well to a non-PS laser from PageStream
- because hinting will not be used.
-
- No, the numerals don't align in all the ImageClub fonts. Many popular
- PostScript fonts do have numerals which align because this is very
- convenient for creating tables. But this is not a requirement and Image
- Club chose not to do this in order to get better spacing between the
- numbers. This means that you cannot use the numerals in the fonts which
- do not have the same spacing for numbers, in tables. This is true, but
- definitely not a flaw.
-
- I apologize if the fonts do not meet your expectations because the numbers
- do not align, but your dissatisfaction is not due to a flaw in the
- font outline but due to your dislike for the design. Like most other major
- font vendors, including Adobe, Soft-Logik warrants the magnetic media
- on which the font is sold. We also offer a money-back guarantee should the
- font outline not render to the printer. This is standard across the industry.
- But we do not offer refunds when somebody purchases a font and does not
- like the design, again like Adobe. This is done not to 'rip you off' but
- to stem a wave of font piracy, which is a serious problem for companies
- like us.
-
- Once again, the fonts in the Soft-Logik Typeface library are professional
- typefaces intended for professional use. Thousands of people on the Mac,
- PC, Amiga and Atari platforms have purchased these fonts. You can sometimes
- see them reviewed in Publish and Business Publishing. Many of the faces
- are licensed from ITC and other companies and are based on the original
- typeface design.
-
- Soft-Logik Publishing
-
- Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
- <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
- SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
-