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nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver) writes:

>In article <BzB8AC.3pE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> erno@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ernest F.B. Pena) writes:
>>Are these fonts public domain or shareware? From the names, it seems
>>these are commercial fonts sold by Adobe or ITC or whoever for
>>$150+?

>	I've downloaded them and looked at em, and they do appear to be
>Adobe issue.  I believe Garamond is a very specific font by Adobe, and all
>of them seem to be of REALLY high (read Commercial) quality. 
Nope.  The AFM (Adobe Font Metric) files may be Adobe issue, but the
fonts themselves don't seem to be.  I used the FontLister utility to 
print samples of the Garamond font and compared to Adobe's own
Garamond.  They're similar, certainly, but definitely not the same.
Compare, for example, the glyph 'a'.  It's quite different; the top
edge of the top "loop" of the a on the Adobe font is rounded, while on
the PD font, it's more of a straight line.  Also compare the 'b'; the
bottom of the glyph is much straighter on the PD font; the Adobe font
has a more visible serif.

Still, the quality of these fonts *is* commercial grade.  Maybe
someone could compare the PD garamond to other commercial Garamonds
such as ITC Garamond?