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From: egapmh@uncecs.edu (Paul M. Hudy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Reunion
Summary: self-flame adobe reunion
Keywords: adobe fonts menu
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.141343.20769@uncecs.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 90 14:13:43 GMT
References: <15251@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1990Apr11.131953.19518@uncecs.edu>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <1990Apr11.131953.19518@uncecs.edu>, egapmh@uncecs.edu (Paul M. Hudy) writes:
> In article <15251@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, clye@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Lye) writes:
> > I saw an ad for adobe type reunion in the magazines the other day and I
> > was wondering whether this was a good deal. Doesn't suitcase utilities
> > do something similar to what reunion does? For those who don't know, it
> > appears that reunion puts the fonts in their respective families i the
> > font menu and you can access things like demi and italic from the
> > hierarchical menu that is accessible under the font menu. Has anyone
> > tried this program? Wha't the street price and does it only work on Type
> > I fonts?
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> 
>   Street price seems to be around $60. I have read that it won't do
> you much good if your application uses scrolling to go thru your
> list of fonts (ala Illustrator88) as opposed to a font menu 

> (Pagemaker).  Don't know about any font restrictions.
> -Paul <egapmh@ecsvax>


  Obviously the responder to Chris didn't have a clue what the
price is. ;-) He's been looking at too many $99 retail/$60 actual
price splits. I couldn't find any reference as to actual price. I
think MacWorld (latest issue) had one via a MacWarehouse ad(maybe?)
-Paul <egapmh@ecsvax>