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From: jack@Taffy.rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
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Subject: Re: Adobe Courier versions
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Date: 2 Dec 90 22:29:05 GMT
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In article <}X}^8==@rpi.edu> kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>[]
>	When I got Adobe Type Manager 2.0 for my Macintosh, I was
>surprised to see (when printing fonts very large) that the included
>Courier font had slab serifs with _square_ ends, as opposed to the
>rounded ones commonly found on PostScript printers.
>
>	Was this change just an aesthetic choice by Adobe's designers,
>or was there a technical reason?
>
>	(I believe I've heard that the Courier in PostScript printers is
>a stroked font.  Since ATM uses only Type 1 fonts, which are outlines, I
>imagine Courier has been redrawn.  Still, is there a reason it wasn't
>drawn with rounded serifs?)
>
>	My Courier outline font file is "Version 002.002".
>
>-- 
>
>James "Kibo" Parry       kibo@rpi.edu
>132 Beacon St. #213, Boston, MA 02116
>(617) 262-3922


James,
  I called Adobe about that question a couple of months back mainly because
I wanted to know if the PlusPack fonts were going through new revisions as
well.  They told me that the only some of the earliest fonts like Courier
were being redone. As the oldest ones, Adobe felt they could be done better
than before.                      
                  Cheers...
                 Jack Howarth


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