Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!hoffman From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: font names Message-ID: <3322@pitt.UUCP> Date: 29 Apr 88 16:32:12 GMT Reply-To: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science Lines: 21 I just looked over the font chart for my old Graphic Systems C/A/T-4 phototypesetter (dated 9/77) and found many examples of renamed fonts. There were no acknowledgements of copyright or trademark holders, however. Is it the case that GSI may have made some tiny change to the fonts to avoid prosecution? Some examples: GSI name Well-known name Suave Avant Garde Beaumont Baskerville Orleans Optima Pontiac Palatino Sovran Souvenir London Times Boston Univers -- Bob Hoffman, N3CVL {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman Pitt Computer Science hoffman@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu