Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!noao!amethyst!rsm From: rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: how to get fonts from Adobe? Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 91 19:13:36 GMT Organization: University of Arizona Mathematics Department Lines: 23 I just gave Adobe's sales line a call, hoping to get information on the availability of some fonts I've heard of. I've got a Unix workstation that runs TeX and Tom Rokicki's dvips, so I need AFM files (for afm2tfm) and PFB's (for dvips). It was the first time I'd ever spoken directly to Adobe. There was, shall we say, a communications problem: the sales droid didn't seem to know what AFM's and PFB's are. I managed to pry out of him that Adobe sells packages for PC's that create AFM's and PFB's as needed, but that they don't sell the AFM and PFB files themselves. Is that correct? He sounded pretty confused. Never having played with PostScript fonts, Type 1 or otherwise, on anything but Unix machines, I need to know the magic incantations to make the sales droids respond. Can anyone help? Should I have pretended to be basically a PC user? -- Robert S. Maier | Internet: rsm@math.arizona.edu, rsm@cs.arizona.edu Dept. of Math. | UUCP: uunet!arizona!amethyst!rsm Univ. of Arizona | Bitnet: maier@arizrvax Tucson, AZ 85721 | FAX: +1 602 621 8322 U.S.A. | Voice(POTS): +1 602 621 6893 / +1 602 621 2617