Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!

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From: Michael Brill
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:01

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>Nope.  The AFM (Adobe Font Metric) files may be Adobe issue, but the
>fonts themselves don't seem to be.

Note that *both* the AFM and font files contain Adobe copyrights.  I
couldn't imagine anyone going into a PD font and inserting these 
copyrights.

>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

Adobe sells no less than 11 different versions of Garamond.  Make 
sure you're comparing apples to apples.

...Michael Brill

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