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Subject: Re: the helvetica saga continues
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 15:36:33 EDT
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From: mrose@udel-dewey.arpa

I talked with Imagen as well, and was told while they did have Helvetica fonts
for their printers, the fonts were printer resident and, if you wanted to use
'em with TeX, at the moment you could do so only on VMS systems and not UNIX
systems.  I couldn't quite follow why this was so, but the key phrase was
that the people who Imagen purchased the fonts from had done them for VMS
and there were significant differences between the way TeX on VMS could
access them and the way TeX on UNIX could access them.  Now to my way
of thinking a TFM file is a TFM file and that's ALL TeX has to know.
But then again, I haven't had much luck in the TFM area lately...

/mtr