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- From: varkki@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Varkki George)
- Subject: Re: TrueType Palatino font anywhere?
- Message-ID: <BxELn6.1pJ@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <721082529snx@apusapus.demon.co.uk> <16898CDA7.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:28:04 GMT
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- In article <16898CDA7.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
- >In article <721082529snx@apusapus.demon.co.uk>
- >tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins) writes:
- >
- >>So does anyone know if there is a TrueType version of this font anywhere
- >>that I can ftp?
- >
- >I don't know if there's a FAQL for this group, but this should be at the top
- >if it.
- >
- >Palatino is called Book Antiqua; I have Adobe's
- >Type 1 Palatino and the Microsoft equivalent -- there is virtually no
- >difference. What difference there is, as far as can tell, is just in a few
- >letter stylings, not actual quality.
-
- i am not so sure. while the two fonts *look* a lot like each other, i
- found that the length of large documents vary quite a bit if these
- fonts are used. that, of course, throws pagination off, realigns
- tables, and causes a number of other unpleasant outcomes.
-
- varkki george
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