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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Using  postscript fonts in Latex/text processor written on top of postscript
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Date: 21 Nov 90 00:50:50 GMT
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In article <410@nyit.UUCP>, zilla@nyit.UUCP (John Lewis) writes:
|> Blue sky research in Portland,oregon makes a version of TeX/LaTex for the
|> macintosh called Textures which has been extended to include postscript
|> fonts, and also eps illustrations, etc. (sorry for the run-on sentence..)
|> You can do things like make illustrations in macdraw, illustrator, or
|> pure postscript and include them.  It also has (very nice!) on-screen preview
|> so you don't have to run to the printer while debugging your paper.

I received an ad from them in the mail - they now have PostScript versions of
the TeX fonts. I didn't take up the offer though - a bit out of my price
range: $345 (or $195 educational). In my opinion, they should be bundling
the fonts with the program, rather than charging this huge price for them.
Having good scalable versions of the Computer Modern fonts should vastly
increase the usefulness of this product (especially the quality of the
previewer - not particularly readable with bitmapped fonts).
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu