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- From: yikes@netcom.com (Michael Brill)
- Subject: Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.040108.11798@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:01:08 GMT
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- >Nope. The AFM (Adobe Font Metric) files may be Adobe issue, but the
- >fonts themselves don't seem to be.
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- Note that *both* the AFM and font files contain Adobe copyrights. I
- couldn't imagine anyone going into a PD font and inserting these
- copyrights.
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- >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
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- Adobe sells no less than 11 different versions of Garamond. Make
- sure you're comparing apples to apples.
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- ...Michael Brill
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