dbs@dungeon.pa.dec.com (dan sears) (05/26/90)
>>How are changes in an Adobe AFM file accounted for in an Adobe Font? Are >>there updates to the font itself? >In a word, yes. The changes in the AFM files are simply reflections of >changes in the font with the corresponding version number. PostScript fonts and the printers they run on are not cheap. Downloadable fonts usually cost more than $100 each and Adobe PostScript printers sell at a premium of well over $1000 to non-PostScript printers that use identical marking engines. Having invested large sums of money in PostScript fonts and printers, it seems reasonable that a customer can expect a font upgrade option that is at least slightly cheaper than repurchasing the font *for each printer*. The vendors of popular software packages like WordPerfect, Lotus 123 and Adobe Illustrator-88 have such policies. Is there such an upgrade policy for Adobe fonts? >As Dan seems to have guessed, it would be best to use the downloadable >version in such a case. This is easily done by manually downloading the font >to the printer; PostScript will check fonts in RAM before using fonts in ROM. In a small configuration of a single computer and a single printer, this is a straightforward task. But in a large network of several printers and computers this quickly becomes a big system management problem. Do you have any advice on how to deal with this problem other than to upgrade every printer in lock step?