Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu1!vaxc!cie590l From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Fonts for Windows - shareable or proprietary? Message-ID: <42585.26dcd8e2@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 29 Aug 90 23:14:10 GMT References: <40937.26d1c5e2@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <8166@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <41481.26d4f4c5@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Organization: Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia Lines: 20 In article , karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > In article <41481.26d4f4c5@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) writes: >>These are Adobe screen fonts. Are they really shareable, or are they proprietary >>products? > > Don't know, but of the fonts listed, AvantGarde, Courier, Helvetica, > New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times-Roman, Zapf Chancery > and Zapf Dingbats either come with windows or are installed by word > for windows, because after I told word I had a postscript printer, > they showed up in word. > -- That's because the printer supports them. The fonts on cica are screen fonts that most definitely do NOT come with Win3. However, if as someone else has suggested, Adobe uploaded most of these to Compuserve, there doesn't seem to be much problem. -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | Monash University | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. | fax: +61 3 565 4944 or 3409