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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: treble and bass clefs
Message-ID: <173@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 1 May 90 16:42:37 GMT
References: <5327@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <1183@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <2501@ariel.unm.edu> <1195@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Organization: Skyline Press, Woodside CA
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In article <1195@chinacat.Unicom.COM> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
>In article <2501@ariel.unm.edu>, stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) writes:
>> In article <1183@chinacat.Unicom.COM> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
>> >
>> 
>> If you purchase Adobe's Sonata font, this would suffice for a treble:
>> 
>>  /Sonata findfont 90 scalefont setfont 10 40 moveto (&)show
>> 
>> 
>> ... but I guess that is too easy ;-) Actually, it is a beautiful, although
>> crazily bounded font.
>>
>
>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).


If you don't like somebody's product, or you don't think it is worth
the price, then don't buy it.  Products sell for what people will pay
for them, and an awful lot of people buy a lot of fonts and LIKE it.
I don't think that calls for words like "screw" and "rape".  Unconscionable,
indeed.

It's funny you single out Adobe, since Linotype, Monotype, Varityper, and
all the other font companies sell fonts, too, and at similar prices.  
I hesitate to say that the price difference reflects the quality of the
fonts, but there is something valuable about fonts directly from the
traditional font foundries, as compared to the many "interpretations"
that are available from other vendors.

Actually, I guess it's not so surprising that you singled out Adobe in
your diatribe.  What is it between you and Adobe, anyway?

I happen to have played a small part in the design of the Sonata font,
which biases me slightly, but I think it's beautiful and well worth the
$98 (or whatever) that they charge for it.

Sheesh.


Just another guy's opinion,
 Glenn Reid