[Fontinst] PSNFSS for URW fonts?

Ulrich Dirr ud at art-satz.de
Mon Mar 24 09:48:35 CET 2003


Walter Schmidt wrote:
>> Are there any other of the "real" basic 35 fonts available for free?
> 
> The Times fonts (the real ones) come also with AR3, and
> Courier, Symbol and ZapfDingbats are still provided with
> newer AR versions.  However, they have no advantage over
> URW's clones, which are indistinguishable.

But you know that there're different versions nevertheless. From v1.006
to v1.007 (the well-known shape of the 'z' in italic) but also changes
to v2.000 (compare, e.g., kern pairs 283 vs 1038 in italic)

Ulrich Dirr




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