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From: roger@grenada.UUCP (Roger Corman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: treble and bass clefs
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Date: 1 May 90 18:31:01 GMT
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Reply-To: roger@grenada.uu.net (Roger Corman)
Organization: Island Graphics, Santa Rosa, California
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>> If you purchase Adobe's Sonata font, this would suffice for a treble:
>> 
>>  /Sonata findfont 90 scalefont setfont 10 40 moveto (&)show
>No, it is to expensive.  Font companies tend to screw you to the wall with
>prices that are total out of reason in relation to the fonts utility.  Now
>I know that Adobe put a lot of money and development into these fonts, but
>so did Cassidy and Greene, and Century Software, but thier fonts are reasonable
>Last I checked Century Software fonts were about 29.00 or so, vs something
>around or over 200.00 for Adobe fonts.  Fonts should not cost 200.00  That
>is pure rape , pillage and plunder.  $40-50 maybe, $20-30 reasonable, 
>$50-100 Possibly depen on lots of stuff.  $200.00 unconciousable (sic).


Actually the Sonata font can be purchased from mail order houses for
$61 (Mac Zone, for example) which seems like a reasonable price to me.

It is indeed a nice font, and is compatible with many Macintosh music
notation packages.




Roger Corman
Island Graphics
Santa Rosa, CA