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In article <29876@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz) writes:
>In one of the Mac magazines I read that some of Adobe's fonts are available
>free via Compuserve.  Are those same fonts available through FTP?  These fonts
>are supposed to be better than the fonts that come with the system.

FTP to sumex-aim.stanford.edu, login anonymous, password (anything), cd to
/info-mac/font/adobe, and grab away.

Note that these are the *screen* fonts, ie bitmaps, for the Adobe Type Library
(I think I uploaded volumes 1-85 there). If you want the printer (outline)
fonts, to work with your PostScript printer or QuickDraw printer via ATM, then
you need to buy them from Adobe. (The screen fonts for the LaserWriter Plus
font set are at sumex-aim; note that, for these, you don't need the outlines
to get decent quality type out of your PostScript printer, since they're built
in. If you want the best results on your screen under ATM, you'll have to 
shell out for the Plus Pack). 

I have the new NFNT-format screen fonts, which fix some resource problems with
the old ones, and have other minor fixes. I've hesitated to upload them to
sumex-aim, for two reasons:
1) Licensing concerns with Adobe
2) The fact that the NFNT font numbers are different from the old fonts, and
that applications that remember fonts by ID (like #$@#$%#$^% MS-Word up to and
including 4.0) will have problems with old documents if you convert. Also, 
some apps (like WordPerfect) can't deal with NFNT fonts, since their range of
numbers is much greater than the older numbers, and they only expect fonts to
be in a certain range.

Let me know what I should do.

Robert