Path: IRO.UMontreal.CA!newsflash.concordia.ca!uunet!pipex!demon!cix.compulink.co.uk!scruss Newsgroups: comp.fonts From: scruss@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stewart Russell) Subject: SUMMARY: Adobe's Utopia Family Reply-To: scruss@cix.compulink.co.uk Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:33:50 +0000 Message-ID: Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk Lines: 82 I've had a good response to this one; thanks to one and all. A subset of the Utopia font family, comprising Utopia-Bold Utopia-BoldItalic Utopia-Italic Utopia-Regular can be found on export.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.0.12] in the directory structure beginning /pub/R5untarred/contrib/fonts/Utopia Each font has its own directory, with font program (PFA), metrics (AFM), and some screen bitmaps. The subdirectories are UTBI____.dir for Utopia-BoldItalic UTB_____.dir for Utopia-Bold UTI_____.dir for Utopia-Italic UTRG____.dir for Utopia-Regular The data is NOT Public Domain, as noted in the following from Adobe's README file --- In the interests of furthering standards for the X Window System, Adobe Systems Incorporated has contributed to the X Consortium and its members the Adobe typeface software listed below. This Adobe Type 1 font software donation will now allow users to experience and freely use traditional high-quality Adobe type in the X Window environment. Permission to use, reproduce, display and distribute the listed typefaces is hereby granted, provided that the Adobe Copyright notice appears in all whole and partial copies of the software and that the following trademark symbol and attribution appear in all unmodified copies of the software: Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated Utopia (R) Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated Utopia is also available on ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{charter,utopia}.tar.Z along with Bitstream Charter. I have not checked the format or status of the Bitstream font; could someone please summarise? (Mail me your summary - I can only WRITE this at present.) General information about PostScript fonts, programming and implementation can be found by mailing ps-file-server@adobe.com Beginner's instructions can be received by sending a message containing the line help to the server. Thanks to all who responded; I now have Utopia working beautifully with AmigaTeX and the `Post' software-based RIP. Stewart C. Russell Thanks must go to the following people - johny@cogs.susx.ac.uk (John Yeates) rjg@ssd.intel.com (Richard J. Greco) jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons) ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin) peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve) fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington) tim@cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen) ablesone@uuisis.isis.org (Erik Ableson) If anyone else has mailed after I wrote this summary, thanks for trying.