Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!smithm
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Thursday, 21 Mar 1991 11:19:30 EST
From: <SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <91080.111931SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject:    Re: Unix Fonts

Carl Ortholieb:

Thanks for your submission.  When I called your company to order Optima
for Unix I was surprised that the answer was it wasn't available.  I'm
not complaining about the way I was handled by Adobe's representative.
He was friendly and sympathetic and seemed a little disappointed himself
about the current state of affairs.

This is probably not your responsibility, but a number of people told
me that the following strategy works just dandy:

   1. Order the Dos format of the fonts.
   2. Run a "simple" program to convert the pfb files for Unix.

I received two copies of the pfb conversion utility.  I'm planning
to test one of these out (thankyou Dick Dunn) today.  Anyway, confidence
is high that this will work and maybe in the short run, the above strategy
could be recommended to other people in my situation.  Perhaps Dick's
utility could even be placed on the Adobe file server?

 Mike Smith                                  SMITHM@QUCDN.BITNET
 Queen's University                          Michael.D.Smith@QueensU.CA
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