karl@umb.umb.edu (Karl Berry.) (03/11/89)
We are looking to buy typefaces for use with TeX. Ideally, we'd like them in three resolutions: 75dpi, 300, and 1370. We really only need one or two faces, and we only need the GF/PK/PXL and TFM files, not a program to generate anything anyone wants for any resolution. I suspect no one reading this actually has such fonts for sale, but perhaps people know of a place that sells them. I know about Bitstream. They may be able to provide us with what we need, but we'd like to find out any other sources that may be out there. (We've also talked with Chuck Bigelow about Lucida, and Neenie Billawala about Pandora.) Thanks, Karl karl@umb.edu ...!harvard!umb!karl
john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman) (03/12/89)
Karl Berry (karl@umb.umb.edu) writes: +----------------------------------------------------- | We are looking to buy typefaces for use with TeX. | we'd like...three resolutions...one or two faces... | ...GF/PK/PXL/TFM files... +----------------------------------------------------- Try: Steve Bencze, 1-800-527-8209 TeXSource, 3333 W. Alabama #111, Houston, TX 77098 Steve can get you anything from Autologic's extensive catalog of fonts, in the usual TeX formats, at arbitrary sizes and resolutions. So far I've built two large books in TeX with Autologic fonts, one in Times Roman and one in Baskerville (which looks particularly nice with Knuth's math fonts). I needed fonts at 80dpi for screen preview and 300dpi for my laser printer; at these resolutions the fonts don't look too great, but the 300dpi page proofs were acceptable for editorial and design work. The final camera-ready copy was done by TeXSource at a fairly reasonable price, and it satisfied the perfectionists at Princeton U. Press. Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in TeXSource, I'm just a satisfied customer. -- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico USENET: ucbvax!unmvax!nmtsun!john CSNET: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu ``A lesson from past over-machined societies...the devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.'' --Frank Herbert