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Subject: Setting up a stack to print with Zapf Chancery ...
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Hello HyperPersons!

A friend of mine is developing a stack that he wishes to distribute
widely as freeware.  It includes some nice routines for printing
with either the Imagewriter or the Laserwriter.

The problem:  he'd like the stack to be accessible to many users, 
but also insists on using Zapf Chancery because it looks great on
his LW NTx.  "The rest of us" with original LW's or 3rd party 
printers won't have access to the PS version of this font.  
That's tough, of course, but then I noticed that my Hypercard 2.0 
disks include Palatino which falls roughly into the same category.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the _appropriateness_ of including
fonts with a stack?  Not in the stack, that's taboo, apparently.
But is it legal to include screen fonts with a freeware product?
Perhaps, hopefully, I am missing a simple way out of the problem?

(Already know it's the death penalty for distributing a PS font!!!)

Thanks for any advice you might care to offer, 
Bill Johnston (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)