Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!

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From: Alexander S. Polinsky
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:57

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In article <1992Dec16.143415.7270@socrates.umd.edu> ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes:
>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?

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