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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Laserwriter screen fonts - can I ftp them from somebody?
Message-ID: <3524@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 88 19:16:38 GMT
References: <18609@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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>I would like to get the laserwriter screen fonts (the font files with the
>italic and bold other variations) for times, symbol, and helvetica.
>Unfortunately I don't have a subscription to CompuServe, but surely some
>folks out there on the internet have snarfed them from CompuServe, and my
>Expressionist manual says that they can be freely distributed among
>individuals. Could I ftp them from somebody?

I don't know about ftp; I'm not really a unix guru.

I know these are available from Adobe as a $50 set of 3 disks. You probably
don't want that.

I have these disks, and can set them up so that they can be ftp'd from this
machine. But wait, there's more.

I have spent some time translating these all into NFNTs. The benefit is that
the variant forms won't show in your font menu, but they will show if you use
bold and/or italic formats. Since the variant names are very post-scriptish,
they really mess up your font menu if they show there; imagine a lot of names
in your font menu like "BI Bookman Demi Bold Italic" or "I Avant Garde Oblique".
It gets messy.  The NFNT versions avoid this.

It takes a lot of work to translate these into NFNTs, apparently because when
Adobe did the originals they weren't carefully done and some of the FOND info
is in slightly out-of-date form. So I would recommend taking advantage of me
and getting the NFNT versions. I spent hours on it.

The penalty is that you must tell me the form that they need to be in so that
you can ftp them across. Or should I try to post them in BinHex 4.0? Or as a
StuffIt Archive? Or what? I may have spent hours on making them NFNTs, but I
definitely DON'T want so spend hours emailing them or posting them, so let's
keep this simple, eh?

-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
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