Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Adobe Soft Fonts on Sun Platform Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 11:18:21 GMT References: <91072.100648SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 22 In-reply-to: SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA's message of 13 Mar 91 15:06:48 GMT In article <91072.100648SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes: Yesterday I called Adobe to purchase the Optima soft font package for a LaserWriter connected to a Sun workstation. I was surprised to learn that Adobe only sells fonts for Mac or Dos platforms. Does this mean that nobody in the Unix world is using soft fonts? Or is there another we use Optima from a Sun workstation. But then we have a hard disk attached to the printer, so the download was a one-off job, and thereafter all we needed was the .afm files for use by Unix applications (TeX and troff). For downloads on a per job basis to a non-hard-disk printer, I was reduced to ASCIIfying the .pfb files from a PC copy of a font, and sending the result as a header file before each print job. It works fine. The question is the Unix software you will use. Does it understand .pfb files, for instance? Sebastian Rahtz -- 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)