Hi, Some nitpick from a typography amateur :-)
Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I'm going to add this missing piece to our documentation right now. > BTW, > "any" is not mapped to "Times New Roman", but to "Times Roman". I don't > know if there's a difference between the two. Probably not, nowadays, There is. Times Roman is the original typeface created in 1931 for the newspaper The Times [1]. It forms the base of the Postscript font developed by Linotype and originally used as one of the Base 14 fonts of PDF. The URW Nimbus Roman No9 L font that can be found on Linux systems is a clone of this font. The Times New Roman font is a TrueType font developed by Monotype for Microsoft and whose metrics match the metrics of the original Times font, so that it can be used as a replacement. The case of Helvetica is very similar. Arial was also developed by Monotype for Microsoft to match Helvetica’s metrics (see [2]). I won’t enter the details, but this is all a problem of competition, at the time, between Adobe and Microsoft, Postscript and TrueType fonts, and license fees. I will also not launch the usual purist debate on this topic ;-) The fact is that nowadays on Windows boxes Times New Roman and Arial are always used as a replacement for Times and Helvetica, and among others as Base 14 fonts for the Adobe Reader. <snip/> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Roman [2] http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html (Oops, my geek score has suddenly increased...) Cheers, Vincent --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
