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Re: TeX Fonts Wanted: Helvetica/Times-Roman

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From: Bill Wisner
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 23:43
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>       If you have a PostScript or other printer which has licensed
>the fonts from their owners, then you just need TFM files; in the case
>of PostScript fonts, Adobe supply Adobe Font Metric files instead,
>which are readily converted to TFM by utilities in at least 3 of the
>dvi to PostScript packages.

Can you tell me where to get such a package? I have afm files for all
the Adobe fonts, and would kill to be able to use PS fonts from TeX.

w. <wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> <wisner@mica.berkeley.edu>
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