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- From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
- Subject: Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.143415.7270@socrates.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <OTTO.92Dec14184942@tukki.jyu.fi> <BzB2B5.39H@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <BzB8AC.3pE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1gl5diINNbp6@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:34:15 GMT
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- nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver) writes:
-
- >In article <BzB8AC.3pE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> erno@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ernest F.B. Pena) writes:
- >>Are these fonts public domain or shareware? From the names, it seems
- >>these are commercial fonts sold by Adobe or ITC or whoever for
- >>$150+?
-
- > I've downloaded them and looked at em, and they do appear to be
- >Adobe issue. I believe Garamond is a very specific font by Adobe, and all
- >of them seem to be of REALLY high (read Commercial) quality.
- Nope. The AFM (Adobe Font Metric) files may be Adobe issue, but the
- fonts themselves don't seem to be. I used the FontLister utility to
- print samples of the Garamond font and compared to Adobe's own
- Garamond. They're similar, certainly, but definitely not the same.
- Compare, for example, the glyph 'a'. It's quite different; the top
- edge of the top "loop" of the a on the Adobe font is rounded, while on
- the PD font, it's more of a straight line. Also compare the 'b'; the
- bottom of the glyph is much straighter on the PD font; the Adobe font
- has a more visible serif.
-
- Still, the quality of these fonts *is* commercial grade. Maybe
- someone could compare the PD garamond to other commercial Garamonds
- such as ITC Garamond?
-