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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problems with Adobe Univers bitmaps
Message-ID: <67036@felix.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 14:56:57 GMT
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In article <75128@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>Has anyone else noticed the rather nasty problems with the bitmaps
>for the Univers typefaces on the Mac? I originally thought I was having
>problems with Brecher's Font Harmony while turning them into NFNT's, but
>that isn't the case. 
>
>[problems deleted]
>
>They should just byte the bullet, so to speak, and ship their fonts as
>NFNT's in the first place, saving us all this hassle. In practical,
>market-share terms, and Mac that doesn't support NFNT's by now isn't very
>likely to be buying downloadable fonts in the first place, and they're
>really impacting those of us who need the downloadable fonts by sticking to
>outmoded technology. 
>
I was just thinking about buying some fonts. Can someone please tell me what
NFNT is, and what kind of Mac doesn't support it. Why do you want to turn a
font into NFNT?  Thanks.

Shirley Kehr











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