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- From: asp@chem.ucsd.edu (Alexander S. Polinsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 00:57:45 GMT
- Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
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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?
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