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From: mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan)
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Subject: Re: Unix Fonts
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Date: 21 Mar 91 13:24:40 GMT
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In article <12982@adobe.UUCP> orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb) writes:
>There have been some questions on the net lately about Adobe's policy for
>fonts on Unix platforms.  I talked to our marketing folks and hopefully we
>can shed some light on our direction in the Unix market.
>
>NeXT
>----
>[stuff deleted]
>
>As for people who have bought the fonts on a Mac or PC we will work out some 
>type of reasonable licensing exchange fee so they are not paying for the 
>fonts all over again.
>
>[more stuff deleted]

I have simply been purchasing the Mac verision of the fonts, and transferring
them to my NeXT using mfrc from sonata. NOTE: I have no Macintosh! I use the
Mac II's here at school to upload the font to a VAX, and then ftp from the
VAX to a campus Cube. Then I dump the font onto an Optical, and take it home.
The only problem is the lack of screen fonts. Even so, the fonts look pretty
decent.

How does Adobe feel about this practice?




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MikeC
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Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland
mikec@wam.umd.edu