Which font is this? Is there an equivalnet for use in plain TeX?

Philip Taylor P.Taylor at Hellenic-Institute.Uk
Thu Dec 31 12:03:15 CET 2020


Philip Taylor wrote:

> I spend a considerable amount of time using many of the members of the 
> Adobe Creative Cloud family — Audition, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, 
> InDesign, Photoshop, to name just the first five that come to mind.  
> Premiere, as well, though not as frequently.  I very strongly believe 
> that there is a place, and a rôle, for commercial products, and whilst 
> I am more that happy to use XeTeX for /serious /multi-page documents, 
> little four-sided flyers such as I am preparing at this instant are 
> far easier done in Illustrator or InDesign.  If and when TeX is 
> extended to support gradient fills (etc.,), then I may have less use 
> for Adobe CC.  But until that time comes, I will spend at least as 
> much time using Adobe CC as I do using TeX and friends.

Yesterday, for the first time, I made a discovery that may well save 
fellow users of both Adobe CC and TeX considerable time — XeTeX's 
\XeTeXpdffile primitive is quite happy to accept an Adobe Illustrator 
file (type: .ai) as input, and thus I can now combine my Illustrator 
files using XeTeX without needing to first save them as PDFs.  Sample at 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v7vxqz2mzjpmsch/February%20flyer%20%28compressed%29.pdf?dl=0

/Philip Taylor/
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