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wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman) writes:
 
>I have a copy of N-Font1.01 that I want to use to generate the NFNT
>fonts from the Adobe fontsets.
 
All Adobe typefaces' screen fonts are available in NFNT form. I know
they're downloadable from CI$, but I'm not sure how else to get hold
of them. Brian?
 
>Is the Helvetica, Times, and Courier fonts that Apple provides with
>their standard system software utility disks (Font/DA mover disk)
>identical to those fonts carrying the same name that Apple provides
>with their laserwriters (eg the IINTX)?
 
This is unclear. Fonts that live in the LaserWriters are PostScript
outline fonts, whereas the others are bitmap fonts for screen display.
 
There *is* a difference between the Helvetica screen font that Apple
ships and the one that Adobe ships. I prefer the Adobe version.
 
>Will Adobe's Helvetica, Times, and Courier screen fonts look as
>"good" on an ImagewriterII output as the Apple equivalents?
 
They'll look different. "Good" is too much of a personal value
judgement for me to answer this.
 
>I have seen other adobe screen fonts that do not correspond to fonts
>already loaded on our laserwriters. If I use any of these fonts, will
>they just get downloaded to the laserwriter as bitmapped fonts (eg.
>Garamond)?
 
Unless you have the outline for the font in question, you will get a
bitmap based on the screen fonts you have installed.
 
>These Adobe "type 1" fonts that I have heard about, are they
>available on any archive sites or listservers?
 
I don't think there are any PD/ShareWare Type 1 Fonts available. All
of them either come from Adobe or from Adobe's licencees and cost
money. Adobe says that the Type 1 spec will be published Real Soon
Now; then everyone can use the hinting technology in Type 1.
 
Currently there are PD/ShareWare unhinted outline fonts (Type 3), but
they won't work for ATM or any other application that requires the
hinting that's in Type 1.
 
>Or are these screen fonts that I have seen in fact "type 1" fonts?
 
No. Screen fonts are bitmaps that are designed to be displayed at 72
dpi on a screen. Type 1 fonts contain the descriptions of character
outlines; these outlines can be scaled as necessary by the PostScript
interpreter (or ATM).
 
As far as printing nice stuff on an ImageWriter, I'm not qualified to
answer. I have a PostScript laser printer when I need one. :-) There
are many others out there who bought ATM solely for the purpose of
enhancing their ImageWriter output. The only non-screen application
I've use ATM for is fax-modeming and I'm more than pleased with the
results.
 
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