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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
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Subject: Re: Public domain Postscript fonts?
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Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 11:00:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 11:00:48 1987
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In article <203200003@labsms.UUCP> lmm@labsms.UUCP writes:
...
>There must
>be lots of PD laser fonts available on Macintoshes.
>
>Thanks
>Larry McWilliams
>ihnp4!labsms!lmm

One would think so, wouldn't one?  I'd be very interested in any PD laser
fonts also, but as far as I know, there aren't any.  I think they're
probably just too hard to design to give away.  There ARE lots of cheap
(relative to real fonts liscensed from a font house) laser fonts available
from people who designed them by hand with Fontographer (check any Mac Mag).

The only PD, non-bitmapped fonts I know of are the Hershey fonts, available
via anonymous FTP from somewhere, but they are not in Postscript form, and
are apparently fairly low-resolution line-segment fonts (like for plotters),
digitized for the government by hand in 1969.

-Eric

Eric K. Olson	olson@harvard.harvard.edu	harvard!olson
"If the War were fought today, most Americans doubt that we could defeat the
new Japan.  Its atom bombs would be cleaner than ours and come equipped with
"How Did You Like Our Product" postcards that would drop from the sky and
ask questions like "Where did you hear about us?" and "How many in your
family died?"	-John Dvorak