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Re: Adobe Font Metrics and True Type Font

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From: Dov Isaacs
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:28
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You can license and download fonts from Adobe's website. Specifically, for the Garamond 3 family of fonts (there are actually 4 different styles � regular, italic, bold, and bold italic), you should go to <http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1327.html>. You can license any one of the styles or all four styles at a discount over the price of four single styles.

Adobe's standard fonts these days are platform independent (at least for Windows and Macintosh) OpenType CFF fonts. AFM (Adobe Font Metric) files do not ship with OpenType fonts as all font metrics are built into the OpenType CFF font file itself. OpenType CFF fonts are fully supported natively by Windows 2000, Windows XP, and the forthcoming Windows Vista and as such, you don't need TrueType for Windows support. Furthermore, Adobe does not license TrueType fonts.

The older, platform-dependent Type 1 fonts of Garamond 3 (that do ship with AFM files) are available at <http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_077.html>, but we strongly recommend against their use for new projects.

The standard Adobe font packages include licenses for five computers. You should go to <http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/legal/index.html> for further information about the licenses and the text of same. Volume licenses are also available and there are significant discounts for same; see <http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/info/onlineextensions.html>

With regards to Solaris, I don't have specific information.

- Dov
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