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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Worry: Using Exotic Fonts
Message-ID: <1134@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 00:47:17 GMT
References: <99500020@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <18015@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <18015@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>In article <99500020@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>> 
>> I am hesitant to write a document using anything other than Adobe's
>> set of ~ 33 basic fonts.  This is because, if I use some sort of
>> exotic font, there's no guarantee I'll be able to use it in a new
>> environment that I might move to.
>> 
>> Am I worrying too much?  Or is this a valid concern?  I don't want to
>
>Adobe fonts are truly portable, as they are POSTSCRIPT programs.
>Other type 3 fonts are also portable, as long as you stick to a PS
>enviornment you won't have any problem.  In addition some of the
>"exotic" fonts are industry standard.....

This only applies if you have control over the target environment.  It
does NOT apply if the target environment has a different set of available
fonts.

You cannot legally include most fonts with your documents, after all,
so it is natural to be concerned about such things.

In fact, I have enough trouble keeping my two Macs in sync about font
things since they (a) are not on a network, so they have their own
system files, and (b) the active set of fonts changes a lot, including
all the stuff that happens around font number clashes.

I don't quite know what to do that would be workable here.  If everything
were stable, I would sooner or later get versions of everything that
was "harmonized".  Just another thing that takes more attention than
I have time to give...
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