Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!adobe!heaven!glenn From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Adobe Courier versions Message-ID: <352@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 5 Dec 90 01:29:47 GMT References: <}X}^8==@rpi.edu> <8809@adobe.UUCP> Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA Lines: 29 In article <8809@adobe.UUCP> dkletter@adobe.UUCP (SUGAR in their vitamins?) writes: > the only gotcha in this whole picture is that if you >have a PostScript printer, chances are you don't have these current >outlines in your ROMs. hence, when you print there will be some font >substitution going on, and the spacing between both versions is slightly >different. What do you mean, the "only gotcha"? First of all, how can there possibly be spacing differences between two versions of the same MONOSPACED font? That's absurd. Second of all, if Adobe has changed the widths, they have committed an arch sin, and should have called the font by a totally different name. Luckily, Adobe knows that, and I am quite confident that the widths of Courier have not changed, so I'm looking forward to the retraction statement :-) I have a feeling the slab serifs are a slight improvement for poor Courier, although it remains aesthetically displeasing no matter what kind of serifs it has. Glenn -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us PostScript/NeXT developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com