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Date:      Sat, 30 Jun 2001 18:34:26 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: WP's for FreeBSD (Was: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!)
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Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> types:
> The CD I bought is called 2000 Fantastic Fonts by Expert Software. Very
> cheap if you find can still find it somewhere: they were classified as
> shareware in CompUSA. The OS/2 postscript fonts will also work. I looked
> for the adobe fonts but they were very expensive and don't include the
> basic, more common ones (which are on OS/2).

Ah, different goals. I didn't want a large collection of common fonts
for general use. I wanted a couple of high-quality font that included
a proper small caps font, non-lining figures, and other such goodies.

> All in all it is possible to get a very nice looking XWindows system. I
> recall there is a document about this in our documentation project.

There's one I used that discusses setting up various font types for
use with X and ghostscript. Is that what you were referring to?

	<mike
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