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AMSFonts PostScript Fonts (Adobe Type 1 format) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the AMSFonts produced by and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc. are now freely available for general use. This has been accomplished through the cooperation of a consortium of scientific publishers with Blue Sky Research and Y&Y. Members of this consortium include: Elsevier Science IBM Corporation Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Springer-Verlag American Mathematical Society (AMS) In order to assure the authenticity of these fonts, copyright will be held by the American Mathematical Society. This is not meant to restrict in any way the legitimate use of the fonts, such as (but not limited to) electronic distribution of documents containing these fonts, inclusion of these fonts into other public domain or commercial font collections or computer applications, use of the outline data to create derivative fonts and/or faces, etc. However, the AMS does require that the AMS copyright notice be removed from any derivative versions of the fonts which have been altered in any way. In addition, to ensure the fidelity of TeX documents using Computer Modern fonts, Professor Donald Knuth, creator of the Computer Modern faces, has requested that any alterations which yield different font metrics be given a different name. The AMS does not provide technical support or installation assistance beyond any installation instructions included in this file. Installation and use of these fonts may require some technical expertise. Review this READ.ME file in its entirety before undertaking an installation. The fonts are available in Macintosh and PFB (binary Type 1) outline formats. The canonical version of the PostScript AMSFonts is located on the AMS FTP server, ftp.ams.org, at /pub/tex/psfonts/amsfonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- History The PostScript versions of the AMSFonts were produced by Blue Sky Research of Portland, Oregon, and Y&Y, Inc., of Concord, Massachusetts, who published the fonts in conjunction with their commercial implementations of the TeX program. Character outlines were derived from high-resolution METAFONT-generated character bitmaps by the ScanLab application from Projective Solutions (Ian Morrison and Henry Pinkham), applied and corrected by Douglas Henderson of Blue Sky Research. Character hints were created by software from Y&Y (Berthold and Blenda Horn), with extensive hand work by Blenda Horn. Font engineering, production, and packaging were by Douglas Henderson and Berthold Horn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Font Distributions The canonical version of the PostScript AMSFonts is located on the AMS FTP server, ftp.ams.org, at /pub/tex/psfonts/amsfonts. These fonts are also available on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). The following three files are in this directory for you to download: amsps-textures.hqx for use with Textures, contains fonts in standard Macintosh Type 1 format amsps-oztex.hqx for use with OzTeX, contains fonts in standard Macintosh Type 1 format amsps-pc.zip for use on a Windows or DOS system, contains fonts in PFB format with PFM metrics files amsps-unix.tar.gz for use on a Unix system, contains fonts in PFB format with AFM metrics files Each distribution includes a READ.ME file which contains instructions for installing the fonts. Please review the READ.ME file in its entirety before undertaking to install the fonts on your system.