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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: treble and bass clefs
Summary: Sonota
Message-ID: <1219@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 4 May 90 20:37:22 GMT
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In article <173@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
> In article <1195@chinacat.Unicom.COM> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
> 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,
> It's funny you single out Adobe, since Linotype, Monotype, Varityper, and
> all the other font companies sell fonts, too, and at similar prices.  
The same goes for Linotype, Monotype, and Varityper.  NOTE: I said font
Companies.  Adobe happens to sell Postscript fonts.  I don't know about
the other companies.  Yes, fonts are worth what one is willing to pay for them,
and I think that Sonota is a beautiful font.  It is fairly specialized, and
thus has a rather limited market in comparison to say Helvetica.

I maintain that fonts should be far less expensive than they are.  I don't
care WHO sells them.

Cheers
Woody


> your diatribe.  What is it between you and Adobe, anyway?

Absolutely nothing.  I have exactly the same attitude tword IBM, COMPAQ, and
a whole host of companies.  I have already mentioned things I don't like
about Adobe, and am NOT going to do so here.


> 
> 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.

$50-100 is perhaps acceptable and justifieable for a font with such a small
market.

However, it is out of my budget range for what I need to do.