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From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Message-ID: <818@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 21:44:17 GMT
References: <3028@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <23012@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho
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In article <23012@cup.portal.com> Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott) writes:
>Mark Vita Writes:
>
>| I think it would be great if Adobe would modify             
>| their advertising copy so that instead of reading "13 of the most            
>  
>| popular fonts", it says "4 of the most popular font families".
>
>I think it would be great, too, because that would mean I could
>get more than 102 styles of Helvetica for the price of four.
>
>To be absolutely certain you don't mislead customers, you'd
>actually have to word your improved advertisement something
>like, "four each of the most common variations of the three type
>families you're used to seeing from LaserWriters, plus one
>variation of another font."

The latest ad for ATM in MacWorld (November 1989, p. 201) says:

	TIMES
	Roman, Italic, Bold, & Bold Italic

	HELVETICA
	Regular, Oblique, Bold, & Bold Oblique

	COURIER
	Medium. Oblique, Bold, & Bold Oblique

	SYMBOL
	[stuff written in Symbol]

	[each of these is written in the typeface -- e.g. `Roman' is
	written in Times Roman, `Medium' is written in Courier Medium,
	etc., so you know what you're getting.]

	Adobe Type Manager includes high-quality outline versions of
	these 13 most popular Macintosh fonts.  You can also add any
	PostScript outline fonts, including those from the Adobe Type
	Library. 

This pretty well seems to remove the ambiguity.

-- 
Geoff Allen                  \  Disclaimer:  WINCO doesn't believe in Macs, 
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