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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 17:13:12 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <1992Dec16.143415.7270@socrates.umd.edu> ice@socrates.umd.edu
- (Fredrik Nyman) writes:
- #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?
-
-
- Ok... what does one do exactly to install these fonts. I did the
- buildafmdir and everything looks ok. However, when I use the
- FontInstaller from Adobe, it creates afm, bitmap and outline directories.
- Is buildafmdir supposed to create these directories also, or is this
- something special about FontInstaller.app?
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