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FONTS: non-PostScript Palatino (Re: tfm --> mf backconversion?)

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From: Damian Cugley
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 13:13
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<36656@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> bhm@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Bruce H. McIntosh):

   UF has just Laid Down The Law [...] all official publications MUST be
   in the Palatino font.  I write all our tech docs in LaTeX, and have
   been unable to find a Palatino font.  I don't have dvips.

(I assume you mean you don't have a PostScript printer.)

Bitstream do a clone of Palatino, which they call Zapf Calligraphic
(since Palatino is a typeface with some caligraphic qualities and Zapf
is its designer).  Bitstream have provided TFM/PXL versions of fonts in
the past (Jeremy Gibbons LaTeXed his thesis in their Baskerville, for
example), and maybe they have got around to producing PK versions.

This solution will cost money, of course, but if UF insist on certain
fonts being used then surely they are prepared to stump up the $$$
necessary to do so?

Damian
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