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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hiding bold/italic fonts?
Message-ID: <3043@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 88 17:01:52 GMT
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Reply-To: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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>>Why doesn't Adobe distrubute the stylized fonts
>>as NFNT resources in the first place?
>
>A couple of reasons:
>
>o If you buy Adobe fonts, you'll see they still come on 400K MFS disks.

I recently received the entire Stone package from Adobe.  Two of the boxes
contained a single 800K disk.  One box contained two 400K disks, one with
screen fonts and the other with PS and AFM files.  The 800K packages mixed
all the screen fonts into a single screen font file, the 400K package had
3 screen font files for the various flavors.

The point is, that even Adobe is recognizing that nobody much uses 400K disks
any more.  I was given no option of 400K or 800K disks, it wasn't mentioned
when I ordered.  I presume that I could, at need, call back Adobe and swap for
400K disks, but I'm not certain.

But seriously, who is going to be doing relatively sophisticated work such as
driving a LW and using purchased fonts, and still be using an old-ROM Mac?

-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
briand@tekig4.TEK.COM   or  {decvax,cae780,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekig4!briand