Re: Font Question

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>"New Times Roman" ... is a "Microsoft" - only - font.

Oh Mr Fuzzy, there was life before Microsoft, despite what Billge 
would have us think!

'... Times New Roman - is an historical pastiche drawn by Victor 
Lardent for Stanley Morison in London in 1931. It has a humanist axis 
but Mannerist proportions, Baroque weight, and sharp, Neoclassical 
finish'. From 'The Elements of Typographic Style' by Robert 
Bringhurst, publisher Hartley & Marks.

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Not until the advent (release) of Office 98 for MAC was this font 
available for the MAC platform at all. <snip>

To my knowledge it was digitised before MS Office was ever calved and 
you can buy it from Adobe, Monotype,  and Linotype, among others, 
TrueType and Type 1, with no reference to any Mickey$oft copyright or 
licence.

Perhaps it's fitting that Microsoft Office's default face is a 
mish-mash of historical references with no intrinsic merit of its 
own. <grin>.

Regards.

Freda

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