david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz) (12/09/89)
In one of the Mac magazines I read that some of Adobe's fonts are available free via Compuserve. Are those same fonts available through FTP? These fonts are supposed to be better than the fonts that come with the system. -- David Dantowitz david@cs.ucla.edu Singing Barbershop when I'm not computing...
hammen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert J. Hammen) (12/09/89)
In article <29876@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz) writes: >In one of the Mac magazines I read that some of Adobe's fonts are available >free via Compuserve. Are those same fonts available through FTP? These fonts >are supposed to be better than the fonts that come with the system. FTP to sumex-aim.stanford.edu, login anonymous, password (anything), cd to /info-mac/font/adobe, and grab away. Note that these are the *screen* fonts, ie bitmaps, for the Adobe Type Library (I think I uploaded volumes 1-85 there). If you want the printer (outline) fonts, to work with your PostScript printer or QuickDraw printer via ATM, then you need to buy them from Adobe. (The screen fonts for the LaserWriter Plus font set are at sumex-aim; note that, for these, you don't need the outlines to get decent quality type out of your PostScript printer, since they're built in. If you want the best results on your screen under ATM, you'll have to shell out for the Plus Pack). I have the new NFNT-format screen fonts, which fix some resource problems with the old ones, and have other minor fixes. I've hesitated to upload them to sumex-aim, for two reasons: 1) Licensing concerns with Adobe 2) The fact that the NFNT font numbers are different from the old fonts, and that applications that remember fonts by ID (like #$@#$%#$^% MS-Word up to and including 4.0) will have problems with old documents if you convert. Also, some apps (like WordPerfect) can't deal with NFNT fonts, since their range of numbers is much greater than the older numbers, and they only expect fonts to be in a certain range. Let me know what I should do. Robert