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In article <1993Jan5.221655.6565@netcom.com> dx@netcom.com (dx) writes:
    *  We purchased Adobe Type-1 PostScript fonts to use with our
    *  NeXT machines.  We're now wondering if these fonts can
    *  easily be ported to our Sun and HP workstations.  (We assume
    *  this is legal, since they all print to the same printer --
    *  feel free to inform us otherwise if you think we're wrong.)
You didn't state what the ``same printer'' is.  It's either a NeXT printer
in which cases you're using the NeXT as a print server or you're sending
to some kind of a PostScript printer.

    *  The NeXT version of the fonts came with, or generated,
    *  these sorts of files (e.g., for the GaramondThree font):
<<<<<  Stuff deleted  >>>>>
    *  For the Sun & HP installations, it seems we need files of
    *  these sorts (e.g., for Times-Roman):
<<<<<  Stuff deleted  >>>>>
    *  Anyone have any suggestions as to what needs to be translated
    *  into what? I would guess the .afm files pass straight
    *  through, but I wonder how to get the .f3b and .bfont files,
    *  and what to get them from.
F3B fonts are Folio fonts -- Sun's proprietary (uuh, I mean ``open'',
that is supported by only one vendor) font format.  There's no
ready way to convert Type 1 to F3B, and besides, if you're sending
to the same printer from a NeXT or a Sun it must be some kind of
printer that understands Type 1 fonts, and so there's no need to
convert.

        ........  Henry
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