At 04:02 PM 10/11/2006, David W. Fenton wrote: >I've never seen Palatino on a Windows machine except as provided by a >PostScript printer. I have Palatino Linotype, but don't know how it >got installed on my PC (it's not WinXP).
Palatino Linotype is installed with Win2000, WinXP, and Office Professional 2003, according to the Microsoft information at <http://tinyurl.com/zuw3c>.
> Examining both closely, Microsoft's >Book Antiqua is vastly superior in the details. FWIW, the MS page says: >Palatino Linotype is the definitive new version of Hermann Zapf's >Palatino, which since its design in 1950 has become one of the world's >most widely used typefaces. For this new digital version, Professor >Zapf has drawn numerous additional characters to include an extensive >range of ligatures, numerals, fractions and support for Cyrillic and >both monotonic and polytonic Greek. Special care has been taken to >enhance the quality of the letterforms when displayed on the computer >screen, ensuring that Palatino Linotype is highly legible whether >displayed on the screen or in print. Aaron. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
