wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman) (11/25/89)
Seeing as I'm a picky person and I don't like getting things printed off a laserwriter that looks different from what I have on my screen (well, maybe just a LITTLE different), I have started to investigate the recommended screen fonts by adobe, specifically the standard set found in an apple laserwriter. I have a few questions: 1) I have a copy of N-Font1.01 that I want to use to generate the NFNT fonts from the Adobe fontsets. However, it seems to me that there was some discussion about this utility a ways back where someone indicated that it had some minor problem or other (maybe had to do with mixing up ID's or something). Is there any attributes or side effects about this product that I need to be aware of? 2) Is the Helvetica, Times, and Courier fonts that Apple provides with their standard system software utility disks (Font/DA mover disk) identical to those fonts carrying the same name that Apple provides with their laserwriters (eg the IINTX)? 3) Will Adobe's Helvetica, Times, and Courier screen fonts look as "good" on an ImagewriterII output as the Apple equivalents? 4) I have seen other adobe screen fonts that do not correspond to fonts already loaded on our laserwriters. If I use any of these fonts, will they just get downloaded to the laserwriter as bitmapped fonts (eg. Garamond)? 5) When printing on an ImagwriterII, What are the top 3 serif (screen) fonts that you think produce the cleanest looking printouts in the 9/10/12 fontsize region? 6) Are there any public domain type fonts that are downloadable to a laserwriter (during the print process) that are defined as more than bitmaps? 7) These Adobe "type 1" fonts that I have heard about, are they available on any archive sites or listservers? Or are these screen fonts that I have seen in fact "type 1" fonts? I do most of my printing on an Imagwriter (can't afford one of those 1200 dpi babies to take home :-) but many of my documents I occasionally need to produce a nicer output, hence the need for good laserwriter fonts that also work "reasonably" well on an imagewriter. I would be mucho grateful to anyone that could answer one or more of the above questions for me! -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM