Re: ps2pk vs. gsftopk

["K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>]

    Will they be SWA (set width adobe)?

Yes.

    [BTW comparing unmr8a.afm and ptmr8a.afm shows they are except for
    kerning] 

Right. This is true of all the fonts URW has contributed, I believe.

    Also, the status of the acrobat reader fonts is not clear to me: if you
    install it under any flavour of unix you get
    Times/Helvetica/Courier/ZapfDingbats  in pfa format: as they 
    are meant to preview documents, why shouldn't you be
    allowed to install them in X or gs or the TeX utilities?

It depends on the exact terms of the license you accepted with acrobat.
In any case, it's a moot point. The URW fonts include all of the above.

    > the end is in sight! URW have given Peter Deutsch *real* Type1
    > versions of the standard fonts to distribute with
    > GhostScript. excellent news.

    Does free for `P.D' also mean free for other people?

Yes. Peter tells me URW gave permission to distribute the fonts under
both the GPL and the Aladdin PUBLIC license.