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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Adobe FAX line?
Summary: huh???
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.192524.22509@ico.isc.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 19:25:24 GMT
References: <24295@well.sf.ca.us>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
> graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes:
> > Incidentally, Adobe has a new service to provide you with
> > various documents, including typeface sample pages, via fax.
> > It's 1-800-235-0078. Not bad.
> Could you elaborate on this?  How does one use it?

Find a telephone.  It's a device like a funny little terminal with a
restricted keyboard and a voice interface ("handset") instead of a display.
Have someone show you how to use the voice-interface device, then enter the
sequence of numbers Stephen posted.  Don't try to enter the "-"; that
doesn't exist on the telephone "keyboard".  Follow the menus.

Seriously...it's a fairly useful service except that the typeface samples
(at least the ones I got) were scanned in rather than converted directly.
Frankly, they don't look very good; it makes it hard to judge the real
characteristics of the font...although at least it's obvious enough that
you can see it and make allowances for it.  (Why dey do dat, anyway???  I'd
think Adobe would be masters of scan-conversion, and FAX isn't *that*
hard.)
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...While you were reading this, Motif grew by another kilobyte.