tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (01/15/91)
I am a member of the growing population of PC users with a PostScript printer. Most of the laser fonts sold for PC's are HP PCL compatible, not PostScript; conversely, most of the PostScript fontware for sale seems to assume the user has a Mac. PC+PS users seem to fall into a crack somewhere. Adobe will sell me fonts, but at rather expensive prices! (They must know a monopoly when they see one.) Are there other sources of PostScript fonts available in PC format? I'll summarize email responses; news followups also welcome. -- I might have gone to West Point, but I was too / /\ Tom Neff proud to speak to a Congressman. -- Will Rogers /__/ \ tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM
Jens@applelink.apple.com (Jens Peter Alfke) (01/16/91)
In article <73603277@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: > Adobe will sell me fonts, but at rather expensive > prices! (They must know a monopoly when they see one.) Most of the other quality font houses (Bitstream, Monotype, Agfa, etc.) charge similar prices. You can't get around the fact that a *good* digitization of a font is a labor intensive process. I used to for for a small font house, and we put at least a man-month into every font. Then consider that the typical package has 4-6 fonts and that's where your circa $195 list price comes from. Sure, some places sell much cheaper fonts but the quality and fidelity to the original suffer greatly. --Jens Peter Alfke Apple Computer