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From: maffett@netcom.UUCP (Tim Maffett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Postscript fonts?
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Date: 9 Apr 90 19:53:04 GMT
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In article <9004080017.AA04093@jade.berkeley.edu> GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) writes:
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>Does anyone know how much Adobe fonts cost?  Does anyone know
>how much Compugraphic fonts cost, and how they compare to the Postscript
>ones?
>
>Thanks...


   Adobe fonts range in price from 95 to 370 $, depending on the font, but most
fall in the range of 145-185.  The cheapest way to get the 35 standard 
PostScript fonts from Adobe is to buy the Adobe Type Manager (13 fonts), plus
the ATM Plus package (22 more fonts).  The total cost for these two packages
is $298 list, but can be had for about $150 or less from most mac mail order
places.  These are Type 1 fonts (hinted) (POST (Adrian Aylward's PS interp
will support Type 1 fonts in a future version).  
   You would need to use Mac-2-Dos or some other transfer mechanism to get
the font files into the Amiga.  I have written a utility (mAPost) which 
will convert mac POST resource files (Adobe font files, Bitstream fonts,...)
to amiga file formats.

  The Compugraphic fonts are very high quality.  The Postscript fonts which
Gold Disk's font creater program produces are Type 3 fonts however, so
they are not hinted.  If you create bitmap fonts using the font creater
program it does produce very nice (WELL hinted) fonts at small point sizes.
The Compugraphic fonts are hinted (much better than Adobe's IHMO), but
you can only access this ability with the Gold Disk package by 
  1) creating amiga bitmap fonts.
  2) Use ProPage or other Gold Disk products to do the printing.

tim

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