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Broken Linotype font
There seems ample evidence now that the Linotype font problem reported
by Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net> on this list on Fri, 05 Feb 1999
02:19:34 +0100 is real:
>> ...
>> I have downloaded a free Type1 font from the Linotype site
>> <http://www.linotypelibrary.com>. They are distributing one
>> variant (regular 430) of their new "Univers basic" font family.
>> They call it a "Demo" but they say it's not "crippled" in any way.
>> ...
Let's do our colleagues at Linotype a favor and get the bug reported
to them ASAP. From
http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/linotype.html
I have this information:
Linotype Inc
URL: http://www.linotypelibrary.com http://www.fonts.de/fonts/ehtml/3533C409/fontstore.htm
Linotype-Hell AG
Siemenswall
D-23107 Kiel
Germany
URL: http://www.fonts.de/
The question is, does anyone on this list have a personal contact
inside Linotype? Such a person would be more likely to initiate a
prompt fix than perhaps a bug report to their webmaster might. And a
bug report from a tex-fonts list member representing a company that is
in the font business might carry more weight than one from
Jill.Q.Public@anyu.edu.
As an aside, this is not the first instance of a commercial font being
corrupted; http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/deneba-fontnames.html
documents a problem with one font on the Deneba CD-ROM.
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