Fwd: [OS X TeX] Utopia fonts

Will Robertson will at mecheng.adelaide.edu.au
Thu Mar 25 18:47:14 EST 2004


Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Will,
> 
> I get the impression from your latest message that it was intended for 
> the list as a whole, not for me personally, that you were fooled by the 
> Reply-To stuff as I usually am. Thus I'm taking the liberty of 
> forwarding your message to the list, and the preceding one as well.

Indeed. My apologies and thanks.

> 
> I had a look at the page for Adobe Font Tools, you need to register and 
> sign a license agreement to get them, which I won't do right now.

Due to objection to their terms or being not interested in downloading 
them? :)

> There is also, of course, the option of purchasing the fonts from Adobe, 
> which might provide fonts of better quality, and in a wider range of 
> shapes.

For sure, but a tool to convert .pfb fonts to OpenType reliably and 
properly (pfaedit aka FontForge seems to work sometimes well and other 
times not...) could be of great benefit.

I doubt they will be allowed to be distributed through i-Installer, on 
the other hand.

Will
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