Re: [WinMac] Palatino font for Windows 3.1/95/NT


Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 07:16:06 -0400


At 11:52 AM +0200 8/21/98, Jeroen Camstra wrote:
>- Why use the postscript fonts & ATM, why not just use a TrueType font and
>no extra software?
>
        Many "serious" graphics folk find Postscript fonts to be superior
than TrueType fonts.

>- One of our printers is a non-postscript printer; will a postscript font
>(with ATM) work on this and will it look the same as the others?
>
        Yes, because ATM will render the PS font for you to the non-PS
printer, just as it does to your screen.

>- Do the postscript/ATM and the TrueType Palatino fonts on the Mac look
>(very) different, or are they the same?
>
        They're basically the same.

Leonard
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