Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!adobe!greid From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Re^2: Are there any 'real' fonts available? Message-ID: <1059@adobe.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 17:52:44 GMT References: <440@helios.prosys.se> <1006@adobe.UUCP> <1339@draken.nada.kth.se> <1012@adobe.UUCP> <3898@phri.UUCP> <120166@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 29 In article <120166@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> garths%glass@Sun.COM (Garth Snyder) writes: >roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes, about Adobe's Font&Function catalog: > I've always wondered about the type samples. Who picks the silly > little bits of text used in the type samples? >I've wondered this too. Some of the samples are downright assinine. >Reading Font & Function makes me blush with empathetic embarassment >for Adobe. :-) >The worst are the waspish comments such as "If you like Univers Bold >Extra Putrid #523, and you should, since it's the world's best selling >typeface, blah blah blah..." I don't have the thing handy, so I can't >quote the actual text. Our advertising agency produces the entirety of the Font & Function catalogue. It is intended for a very broad audience, including business people who don't know anything about type; a little leniency is appreciated on the ad copy.... I will pass your reactions along to the product manager, too. Glenn Reid Adobe Systems xx yy zz (to mollify the blasted Pnews)