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Article #2142Re: treble and bass clefs
From: Roger Corman
Date: Tue, 01 May 1990 18:31
Date: Tue, 01 May 1990 18:31
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>> If you purchase Adobe's Sonata font, this would suffice for a treble: >> >> /Sonata findfont 90 scalefont setfont 10 40 moveto (&)show >No, it is to expensive. Font companies tend to screw you to the wall with >prices that are total out of reason in relation to the fonts utility. Now >I know that Adobe put a lot of money and development into these fonts, but >so did Cassidy and Greene, and Century Software, but thier fonts are reasonable >Last I checked Century Software fonts were about 29.00 or so, vs something >around or over 200.00 for Adobe fonts. Fonts should not cost 200.00 That >is pure rape , pillage and plunder. $40-50 maybe, $20-30 reasonable, >$50-100 Possibly depen on lots of stuff. $200.00 unconciousable (sic). Actually the Sonata font can be purchased from mail order houses for $61 (Mac Zone, for example) which seems like a reasonable price to me. It is indeed a nice font, and is compatible with many Macintosh music notation packages. Roger Corman Island Graphics Santa Rosa, CA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!island!grenada!roger From: roger@grenada.UUCP (Roger Corman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: treble and bass clefs Message-ID: <653@grenada.UUCP> Date: 1 May 90 18:31:01 GMT References: <5327@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <1183@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <2501@ariel.unm.edu> <1195@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Reply-To: roger@grenada.uu.net (Roger Corman) Organization: Island Graphics, Santa Rosa, California Lines: 25