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In article <91072.100648SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:

   Yesterday I called Adobe to purchase the Optima soft font package for
   a LaserWriter connected to a Sun workstation.  I was surprised to learn
   that Adobe only sells fonts for Mac or Dos platforms.  Does this mean
   that nobody in the Unix world is using soft fonts?  Or is there another
we use Optima from a Sun workstation. But then we have a hard disk
attached to the printer, so the download was a one-off job, and
thereafter all we needed was the .afm files for use by Unix
applications (TeX and troff). For downloads on a per job basis to a
non-hard-disk printer, I was reduced to ASCIIfying the .pfb files from
a PC copy of a font, and sending the result as a header file before
each print job. It works fine. 

The question is the Unix software you will use. Does it understand
.pfb files, for instance?

Sebastian Rahtz
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