Re: Downloading Adobe fonts

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From: Terry Jones
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1988 02:09

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In article <1934@phred.UUCP> marcg@phred.UUCP (Marc Greisen) writes:
>Heres the catch.  If we want to use the fonts we have to download them
>from a Mac.  Adobe only supports downloading of it's fonts from a Mac.
>I would like to have the fonts downloaded from the Vax after a reboot
>(the power often goes out here during the winter months).  I have
>talked with Adobe technical support and they do not seem willing to
>talk about working out a way I can download from my Vax.

From discussions I have had with Adobe there is a way to take the
fonts and make a "text" form of them. You do this on a Mac as you
initialize them for a printer, then you can take them to a PC or VAX
for downloading.

This may have changed but I haven't heard that it has.

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From: tj@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Terry Jones)
Date: Mon, 18-Jan-88 21:09:17 EST
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