Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!questor!asmith From: asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager to NeXT Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 02:00:32 PDT References: <3973@autodesk.COM> Organization: Questor - Free Internet/Usenet*Vancouver*BC::+1 604 681 0670 glang@henry (Gary Lang) writes: > In article <9104110216.AA19711@epsoft> mark@epsoft.UUCP (Mark Chamberlain) > writes: > > I've recently built up a fairly decent ATM library of fonts under > > Windows 3. Now these are all Adobe Type 1 fonts - how can I use them > > on my NeXT? I have a set of files with pfb and pfm extensions - how > > do I build these into .font files? > > > > TIA, Mark > > ---- > > Mark Chamberlain, Epsilon Software Limited, London, England > > uunet!ukc!epsoft!mark > > For starters buy a copy form Adobe; it's illegal for you to use them on your > Windows AND NeXT machines. Pay for the software you use please. Is this, strictly and not-so-strictly true? I was under the impression that is a bit of a grey area. Consider this... If I invest a shitload of money in buying a large collection, or perhaps the entire, Adobe library of typefaces and store them on a printer's disk. Should I have to pay AGAIN for these fonts so that I can use them on another computer that accesses the same printer? I would be paying hundreds of dollars for a new set of .afm files. hardly seems fair. What is needed is for Adobe to bang their two heads together and come up with a fair solution. This is becoming an increasingly common problem, and as such must be dealt with. I think that a "per printer" license is probably somewhat fair, and a site license possibly the most fair solution. Should an entire art department pay to have a new set of fonts on every machine? Not unless they are going to be REALLY cheap, and noone is going to see that happen in a hurry. Anyone else got a reaction? ########################################################################## asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca The Chameleon Papers - Vancouver, BC Graphic Artist - Bad Mood Guy - NeXT user Human beings are a great disappointment to me, and it doesn't help one bit that I am one --SF ########################################################################## Fingers Down The Throat Of Love