[comp.sys.mac] Does anyone sell screen font families?

peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (10/21/88)

Does anyone know if there are screen font families available for the Mac
somewhere? I'm particularly interested in the standard laserprinter fonts
like Times, Helvetica, etc. I find the generated italic version of times
extremely poor and would love to have a complete font family that defines
plain as well as italic, and even bold would be nice. Aldus told me they do
not have such font sets. Who else could I ask? Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.

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chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (10/21/88)

>Does anyone know if there are screen font families available for the Mac
>somewhere? I'm particularly interested in the standard laserprinter fonts
>like Times, Helvetica, etc.

These are available, not surprisingly, from Adobe. You can either download
them from CompuServe, from the Letraset Roundtable on GENie, or get them
from Adobe directly. I *strongly* recommend them -- the bitmaps that come
with the Apple printers are really rather poor, and you won't believe the
difference.

Then get SuitCase II, use Font Harmony to turn them into NFNT's, turn on the
Font menu modification, and you'll wonder how you EVER lived without the stuff.

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