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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet soft fonts?
Keywords: laserjet fonts printer
Message-ID: <10403@gryphon.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 89 07:26:08 GMT
References: <6746@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <6746@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> nschultz@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ned W. Schultz) writes:
>Can anyone point me toward sources of software-based laser fonts
>in Amiga disk format for use on an HP LaserJet II?  
>
>For a while last year someone was posting fonts to PLINK.  Unfortunately
>PLINK dropped their local access number here.  I'd really appreciate
>hearing from any LaserJet users who've picked up soft fonts.
>
>I have JetSet and some of the CLtd fonts.  Any other commercial sources?

Not really. It's a shame, but a basic fact that the amiga market is still
too small for the big type houses to consider makng disks in amiga
format.

Adobe will sell you their $500 fonts on any disk format you like - as long
as it's a Mac or a PC.

You're just gonna have to convert them from PC disks I guess.

And about those PLINK HP fonts - good stuff. My *guess* is that
they were from a font compiler of some sort or ripped off. It's
real hard to trace things like that, and since A) you cant copyright
the font design, and (now) B) the copyright office has declated you
cant even copyright the actual binaries to a font (copyrighting
of font binaries has always been held as the only protection under
the law a font artist enjoys) it's a moot point.

Of course, the copyright office might be *wrong* and some judge may
go right ahead and force them to allow copyrights on font binaries,
but that day apparantly, has yet to come.


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