Re: Need font advice

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

< reply posted to group, with permission >
< original question at bottom >

Walter,

Thanks for your confidence, but your question hit on a subject in which I am
not strong.  Other members of the Frame groups are much better qualified to
answer.  

However, your best bet will probably be to check out the "fonts.comp"
newsgroup.

If you do not already have "news service" and/or are not familiar with
"regular" newsgroups, a quick and painless way to get on is to go to...

   http://www.dejanews.com

Others may suggest better ways.  However, web-browser-based dejanews is good
if your local isp does not provide the service you need.

Good luck.

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BrufusD@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Dear Jay,
>         I don't mean to take advantage of your professional services for free, but I
> have a question that, judging by your recent Framer's post, you might be the
> best person to ask.
>         As you wrote, I have found the whole issue of fonts - how to get them where
> to get them, how to install them, how to judge them without seeing them on a
> page next to another font - extremely confusing.
>         I'm a student in the software technical writing course at Middlesex Community
> College in Massachusetts. For my major project I'm documenting Paint Shop Pro
> without reading the print documentation. I like the fonts and format used by
> Adobe in their FrameMaker manual and I'd like to try to duplicate that look,
> page size and all. I understand they use a bunch of Minion, Myriad and
> Frutiger. But I can't afford to buy these fonts from Adobe, so I was wondering
> if you know of good substitution fonts that may already be on my PC. I have a
> friend with 600 fonts, but I couldn't begin to judge which ones were
> comparable. They all look pretty much the same to me until I get them on the
> screen and compare them with other fonts. I'd hate to fall back on Arial and
> Times New Roman. Any advice?  Thanks for your time.
> 
> Walter Crockett

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