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Re: stroked Courier?

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From: Todd C. Williams
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 01:15
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In article <61830002@acf3.NYU.EDU> kesich@acf3.NYU.EDU (John Kesich,321wwh,998-3047,) writes:
>One of my users finds the Courier font too light in relation to Courier-Bold.
>...I concluded that the way to fix this would be to create a modified...
>...if there is a better way to solve this problem, please let me know.

To summarize the responses a posting I made a month or two ago:
Adobe's Courier PS font was changed in late 1989 from a stroked representation
to an outline representation.  Also, the "weight" of the font was reduced.
Version 002.000 through 002.003 exhibit this.

Version 002.004, completed in Sept 1991, fixed these problems.
I don't know where to get it.  I think it ships with ATM these days.

Don't bother trying to fix the old font; just get the new one.

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Todd Williams    UNIX Systems Coordinator     todd@macsch.com    (213) 259-4973
MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. ("MSC"),  815 Colorado Blvd.,  Los Angeles, CA   90041
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