drymartini@gmx.de (Robbie Pickering) writes: Hello Robbie,

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I sometimes use dolly typeface for online presentations. As far as I know, it is free for non-commercial use. See www.underware.nl.

Sadly, the designers have a different opinion:

http://www.underware.nl/site2/index.php3?id1=dolly&id2=priceinfo says:

What will Dolly cost?

1 user: 150,- Euro

That is for commercial use as far as I can remember. There is a small book (in german) http://www.koppmedien.de/produktdetail.php?nr=12329 that includes the typeface for EUR 10,20. (I don't remember what format it is in, ttf?) There was a discussion a while ago in the german tex list about this typeface, and a local font guru stated that in the licence term it is written that non commercial use is free. Just mail the designers and ask :) Patrick

On Tue, 13 May 2003 14:02:50 -0400 John Culleton wrote:

For a temporary solution I have fallen back to (drumroll) the default CM which in pdftex is the Type 1 conversion thereof. It is a bit spidery but it is handsomer than the Palladio in the viewer window. As time permits I will play with some others per your and others suggestions.

Here are CM, Bookman, Charter, Palatino, Utopia, and Georgia in one document, all 12pt: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/comparison.pdf Charter, Utopia, and Georgia all look pretty good at screen resolution. -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany info@sattre-press.com http://tow.sattre-press.com/

On Tue, 13 May 2003 14:02:50 -0400

John Culleton wrote:

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For a temporary solution I have fallen back to (drumroll) the default CM which in pdftex is the Type 1 conversion thereof. It is a bit spidery but it is handsomer than the Palladio in the viewer window. As time permits I will play with some others per your and others suggestions.

Here are CM, Bookman, Charter, Palatino, Utopia, and Georgia in one document, all 12pt:

http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/comparison.pdf

Charter, Utopia, and Georgia all look pretty good at screen resolution.

-Bill Now that is a useful file! One can not only admire the appearance but by checking the top line of each section get a feel for the spreadiness of the characters. The Georgia font seems to be the best, but it is a Microsoft font that comes in a PC version and a Mac version. Are both versions truetype? If so what gyrations did you go

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 03:42 pm, Bill McClain wrote: through to make it pdftex/context ready? BTW I had another ttf I was trying to use but ttf2afm can't seem to find it even if I fully qualify the name. So maybe I have to recompile ttf2afm. My binary version was found in /usr/TeX/source/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ttf2afm but it doesn't seem to want to play on my system. Font-chasing reminds me of the old children's song about the bear that went over the mountain only to find another mountain in his way. TFYH John Culleton ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/

On Tue, 13 May 2003 19:17:40 -0400 John Culleton wrote:

The Georgia font seems to be the best, but it is a Microsoft font that comes in a PC version and a Mac version. Are both versions truetype? If so what gyrations did you go through to make it pdftex/context ready?

I'm using the version that came with my Linux X11, as packaged by SuSE: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/georgia.ttf "file" says "MS-Windows true type font .ttf". The gyrations are described on my help page in the Truetype section: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#newfont-truetype As Bruce says, ttf2tex may be a simpler procedure, but I haven't used it. I've attached the source to comparison.pdf. -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany info@sattre-press.com http://tow.sattre-press.com/