Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: DVIPS error message: No Stone Serif-Bold.pfb Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 91 09:51:19 GMT References: <55851@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 21 In-reply-to: tml@tik.vtt.fi's message of 24 Jan 91 21:44:07 GMT In article tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes: You could also buy the fonts in PC format, but I don't know how to proceed in that case. the .pfb files in a PC distribution from Adobe are binary; I don't know if dvips reads them or not, but there is a small program called pbtops as part of dvitops which converts them to ASCII for safety's sake Could somebody please explain the legal aspects. Are Adobe fonts licensed to be used on one printer (at a time?) only? Or one machine only? Or by one individual (at a time?) only? They are licensed to a *printer*. if you own one printer and 1 Mac and 1 PC, its legal. sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)