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From: dodel@CAM.ORG (Jean-Pierre Dodel)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: TRUE PS FILES
Summary: HELP: True PS files!!!
Keywords: postscript
Date: 29 Sep 92 02:19:23 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

I have a mac and would like to print a document which contains graphics
and various fonts on a postscript printer at school. I have tried
printing to a postscript file (with Quark Xpress) using the Laserwriter
IINT driver but when I try to print it at school it gives me "offending
command" error. Is there a generic postscript driver that would
generate a postscript file for any postscript printer (like it should be)?
Also, about including the font definitions inside the postscript file:
How can I make the generation of the postscript file include or exclude
the fonts that I am using in my document? (some fonts are not in the
standard set of PS fonts).

thanks...


-JP  (jack@concour.cs.concordia.ca)
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: lgorbet@carina.unm.edu (Larry P Gorbet ANTHROPOLOGY)
Subject: What Typefaces in Apple's New TT Set?
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 04:16:36 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: na

According to last week's MacWEEK, Apple was to release a new
set of TrueType typefaces for $99 at the Seybold.  Could someone
post a list of the typefaces included here?  Thanks.
From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Font substitution in Postscript
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:43:07 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <2055@sdrc.COM> spsisira@sdrc.sdrc.com writes:
<I am trying to print a large number of postscript files from a printer
<that has a limited number of fonts. When I tried to print files it
<aborts due to bad font names.
<
<I would like to seek advise on how do I substitue those unavailable fonts
<by available font names in a systematic way. I know when you do that the
<document format may alter somewhat.     

Sounds like your PostScript printer is broke.  All PostScript printers are
supposed to default to Courier, if it can't find the requested font.  All the
ones that I have seen do, including Sun's NeWSprint for the SPARCprinter.

I suggest calling the manufacturer of the printer and discuss the problem
with them.
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Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: css0860@zeus.tamu.edu (CSS)
Subject: How to create ATM font
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: css0860@zeus.tamu.edu
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 02:39:00 GMT

Suppose I wanted to create an ATM font for the PC (MSDOS/OS2).
What would I need.

-steve
(Sorry if this appears twice but my link to my server was acting funny)

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From: andyb@coat.com
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Wanted: Phonetic alphabet (Windows)
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:40:18 GMT
Reply-To: andy.behrens@coat.com

International Typeface Corporation (ITC) has just announced two new
IPA fonts:

	ITC Stone Phonetic Sans
	ITC Stone Phonetic Serif

They're available in both Mac and IBM format.  Your local font vendor
should have more information.

(I'll be happy to send a sample page to anyone who sends me a stamped
self-addressed envelope).


Andy Behrens
HC61 Box 1B, Lebanon N.H. 03766  USA
From: b.steiner@cl-hh.comlink.de (Bernd Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Subject: looking for japanese fonts
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 15:29:00 MET
Organization: Freies Telekommunikations-Zentrum Hamburg e.V.
X-Z-Path: CL-HH!LINK-HH!SHLINK
X-Gateway: US SHLINK [shgate V1.91]

Hi there,

is there someone who knows, where to get some japanese fonts
for ibm-pc? Best would be, to get them in germany.

Thanks for answering

to: b.steiner@cl-hh.comlink.de

...und tschuesz

Bernd
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From: cive1em@jane.uh.edu (Chuang, Lu-chia)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Looking for Chinese fonts (or system) for Macintosh
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:51:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hello, I am looking for Chinese fonts for Mac.
Any information is welcome. Thanks in advance.

-Luke
From: balamut@morris.hac.com (Morris Balamut)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Question: Proportional vs nonProproportional fonts
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:09:59 GMT
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Organization: Hughes Aircraft

I have a question, is there a list/reference for what fonts are
Proportional and what fonts are nonProportional. 

I have been looking and have not been able to locate the information.


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From: Peter Fraterdeus <pfraterdeus@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:44 PDT
Subject: Debasing other people's des
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1347000021:000:2825
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!pfraterdeus    Sep 26 21:44:00 1992


From: Peter Fraterdeus <pfraterdeus>
Subject: Debasing other people's des

Attn: comp.fonts

        Reply to:   Debasing other people's designs
In the article at hand, it was written:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(Stuff Deleted)
There is nothing
inconsistent in the FSF taking the stance that it is willing to do
something widely and reasonably considered legal and ethical -- copying
typefaces -- while also taking the stance that their _own_ creations
should be widely and reasonably considered freely copyable!  Unlike the
typeface creators who create purely for the public good, however,
the FSF has had to resort to using copyright law (via the GPL) to ensure
that their creations _remain_ free in any context. 
(Stuff Deleted)
Since typefaces constitute a fundamental building block in communication
and commerce, they were best denied protectability, because the cost of
not providing monetary rewards to type designers would be far less than
the cost of having impediments in the use of typefaces.  _Nobody_ who took part
in that decision is likely to have thought typefaces were "easy" to design --
and certainly they are far easier to design in this day and age
than in the past, and can be designed using (possibly free) tools that
were not available in the past.
(Stuff Deleted)
Of course, hackers are not likely to create decent fonts, though they
might have a chance at recreating existing fonts given decent tools.
(Stuff Deleted)
There's no reason to believe this phenomenon couldn't be repeated with typeface
design -- but it won't be possible if typefaces become largely protectable,
especially if that ruling is retroactive and made in the USA.
--
James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson    burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
My reply to this ......

What's obvious is that the hacker and marketing types have demonstrated an
absolute lack of any hint of visual literacy or visual design comprehension.
These arguments barely deserve the honor of a reply. It is clear that there is
no grounds for rational discussion with "programmers" that somehow believe that
its easier to design type today than it ever has been. The TECHNOLOGY is NOT
the typeface. The designer's eye is what makes a typeface, and perhaps there
are faster tools, but that only enables us to make more and finer decisions in
the subtlties.

A hacker could no more design a decent text face (say something like Centaur,
for instance) than a Chevy mechanic (even a VERY GOOD one) could do open-heart
surgery. It don't matter how sharp the scalpel is, it's the EYE and HAND and
MIND.
But no point in talking subtleties with bit-pushers. It's either black or white
for the monochrome engineering types. No 24-bit color here, that's for sure. 

Peter Fraterdeus, President
Alphabets, Inc.




Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: ari@netcom.com (Ari Davidow)
Subject: Re: New Yorker Magazine
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 07:44:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

>I wanted to use under OS/2 and TrueType fonts have too much stripped out....

TrueType fonts have nothing to do with ATM, which renders Postscript fonts
only. On the other hand, it would be a simple matter to use an inexpensive
utility such as FontMonger to convert from TrueType to Postscript. If you
wanted to be able to adjust any characters to meet your needs, you would,
of course, need a full-scale font program such as Fontographer. Alas.
Both Fontographer and FontMonger need to run under Windows (both are also
available on the Mac). 

Hope this helps

ari davidow
ari@netcom.com
From: dodel@CAM.ORG (Jean-Pierre Dodel)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Windows PS to Mac PS and back
Summary: HELP: Windows Type1 to Mac Type1 and Back
Keywords: fonts
Date: 29 Sep 92 02:24:13 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

How can I convert windows type 1 fonts to mac type 1 (or truetype)
and back. I know about Fontographer but I was wondering if there
was another way...

thanks...


-JP (jack@concour.cs.concordia.ca)

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From: glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Searching for UniCode Font File
Keywords: Unicode, Font, Bitmap
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:35:24 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


  In article <pfk.717505943@hpux.rz.uni-jena.de> pfk@rz.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm) writes:
  >Because I'm writing an viewer for different asian languages, I'm interested
  >about information how to display UniCode. I have heart much about it, but I
  >haven't any information about coding. What I need is a simple constructed
  >font file containing all bitmaps of all UniCode Chars, or a BIG table
  >containing the translations of a UniCode char into an other char set.

No fonts exist yet that cover all of Unicode.  The Association for Font
Information and Interchange (AFII) is in the process of creating a font
which will be used to print the ISO10646 code charts.  I understand this
font *may* become available when complete.  The Unicode Consortium is
in the process of creating online mapping files from other character sets
to Unicode, by means of which one could obtain a partial mapping in the
reverse direction.  I believe they intend to make these available by FTP
once they are verified for accuracy.

  >How will control chars coded (CR,LF,TAB)?

All control characters in the C0 and C1 spaces of ISOLatin1 (ISO8859-1)
are also encoded in Unicode.  They are simply the 16-bit extensions of the
8-bit control codes, e.g., 

        Latin1        Unicode	

  TAB    0x09         0x0009
  LF     0x0A	      0x000A
  CR     0x0D         0x000D

Unicode plain text strings can contain escape sequences, as long as
ESC is encoded as a 16-bit unsigned integer 0x001B, along with the
arguments to ESC.

As for indicating line and paragraph separation, Unicode contains two
characters with these specific semantics, viz., 0x2028 LINE SEPARATOR
and 0x2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR.

Glenn Adams
Cambridge, Massachusetts
From: S_HARASTA@V1.BARTS.LON.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: hunting for MELBOURNE
Date: 6 Oct 1992 20:05:39 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

We are desperately looking for a font called MELBOURNE and would
greatly appreciate any information about where and how to get it.
Please write directly to me to s_harasta@v1.barts.lon.ac.uk 
Since I might have occasional difficulties in accessing my mails,
I would ask you to be so kind to repeat your message to
peter@psy.oxford.ac.uk if you would not get an acknowledgement
reply from me. 
Thank you very much, sandor
Xref: sparky comp.fonts:2942 news.answers:3266
From: asm@ee.mu.OZ.AU (andrew scott malone)
Subject: Wanted: Phonetic alphabet (Windows)
Keywords: IPA, WinWord
Organization: Electronic and Electrical Engineering - University of Melbourne 
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 00:31:24 GMT

Hi.

I have a friend looking for the IPA font. (Phonetic alphabet.)

It seems to be readily available for the mac, but I am yet to find it
  for Windows/Word.

Could anyone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
	Andrew

asm@ee.mu.oz.au
asm@cs.mu.oz.au
Xref: sparky comp.fonts:2929 comp.lang.postscript:4911
From: games@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Need an ascii to postscript converter (can't get mail to geoffw@...oz.)
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:41:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: max.1992Oct1.124104.1

I can't seem to get mail to geoffw@extro.ucc..oz.au.

I need an ascii to postscript converter.  I heard that his nenscript
was good.  Can anybody point me to an ftp site here for the source?

Is there a really really good one out there (command line parameters for top
and bottom and left and right margins, base font, base font size, the number
of pages to place on a single sheet (using an adjusted value for base font
or course)  options for the output file portrait or landscape, and options
for setting tab stops (like every 8 character pretend monospaced, or in some
inch figure...) )

If anybody can help me out, I would appreciate it.  I can add some of the
features that it dosent have if necessary...  I just don't feel like
doing the whole job from scratch, or like rewriting the really bad converter
that I presently have.

			John Stevens-Schlick
			5222 44th ave S.W.
			Seattle, WA, 98136


			(206) 935-4384 (home)
			(206) 296-4076 (work)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Grey text in PageMaker?
From: Pat.Churchill@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:19:00 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Oct1.163516.22336@shearson.com> dmandl@shearson.com writes:
> I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but isn't there a way
> to get grey text (i.e., 10%, 20%, etc.) in PageMaker (Windows
> version)?  I usually use Corel to do this stuff, so it's never
> come up before.  It seems to me that the option is only
> available for graphics (circles, squares).  Surely there must
> be a way to do this to get drop shadows, etc.?  Selecting
> one of the Pantone grey shades doesn't work, because they're
> actually treated as colors and so they print as black on a
> laser printer.  Anyone have an answer?  Thanks.
> 

>    --Dave.
> 
> ---
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>          Dave Mandl            |    Opinions expressed here
>        New York City           | are not those of my employer,
>    (dmandl@shearson.com)       |          believe me.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 


Go to the *define colours * option (under Elements), choose new and
set C M and Y to 0% and black to 25%, call it 25% black and exit.  It
should now be on your colours palette.  Highlight your text and apply
the colour 25% black.

Works for me on the Mac and I seem to recall using it quite a bit
when I used PC Pagemaker.
-- 
| The floggings will continue until morale improves
| Pat.Churchill@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (Pat Churchill, Wellington, New Zealand)
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From: bjag@nwu.edu (Bharathi Jagadeesh)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: What Typefaces in Apple's New TT Set?
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:52:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: owl.bjag-061092150528
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Distribution: na
Organization: Northwestern University

In article <73078@apple.Apple.COM>, opstad@Apple.COM (David Opstad) wrote:
> 
> In article <h!bp-3m@lynx.unm.edu> lgorbet@carina.unm.edu (Larry P Gorbet ANTHROPOLOGY) writes:
> >According to last week's MacWEEK, Apple was to release a new
> >set of TrueType typefaces for $99 at the Seybold.  Could someone
> >post a list of the typefaces included here?  Thanks.

> Delphian
> Nadianne (roman and bold)
> Onyx
> Oxford
> Swing Bold
> Zeal

What do these fonts look like? Are they all display fonts?

Bharathi Jagadeesh                 bjag@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: cb@fantod.xis.xerox.com (Christopher Bader)
Subject: Re: Hints for designing non-latin book faces?
Organization: Xerox Imaging Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:35:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.173317.18652@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com writes:
>Hi there.
>
>I have a non-latin script that I want to use in bilingual text with a
>seriphed font such as Times or New Century Schoolbook.  I'd like it to
>have the same "feel" and for transitions between the two scripts to
>not be visually jarring.  I'm also a beginner when it comes to
>designing typefaces, and I'm having trouble with basic questions like
>"where do I put the serifs?" and "How do I keep this character from
>looking like it's about to fall over?".
>
>Does anybody have any good references for the design of exotic book
>faces?  Or even just a good reference on *why* Times looks the way it
>does so that I can try to make some sort of mapping.  Hell, at this
>point I could probably use a good introduction to type design in
>general!
>
>Your help and indulgence are greatly appreciated.
>
>Evan Kirshenbaum
>    HP Laboratories
>    3500 Deer Creek Road, Building 26U
>    Palo Alto, CA  94304
>
>    kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com
>    (415)857-7572
>

Two books that will help you in selecting fonts with the same feel 
as your existing fonts are:

Christopher Perfect and Gordon Rookledge, "Rookledge's International
Typefinder: The Essential Handbook of Typeface Recognition and
Selection", Sarema Press, 1983 (distributed by Lund Humphries
Publishers, London)

and

Benjamin Bauermeister, "A Manual of Comparative Typography: The
PANOSE System", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1988

				-- Christopher Bader

Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.protocols.iso,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.misc,sci.lang
From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
Subject: Re: Character Sets (AGAIN)
Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 20:58:03 GMT

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE KILL THIS THREAD!?!?!?!?!?!  IT NO LONGER BELONGS HERE!!!!
EVERYBODY SHUT UP AND GO SOMEPLACE ELSE TO SQUABBLE - I AM GETTING SICK AND
TIRED OF THIS CRAP!  THIS APPLIES TO ALL OF YOU WITH NO EXCEPTION!!!!!!!
Xref: sparky comp.fonts:2956 gnu.misc.discuss:3213
From: burley@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: My stand on the Gnu font project (no followups, please)
Date: 3 Oct 92 18:40:33 GMT
	<MIB.92Oct2163634@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
	<DREIER.92Oct2160815@lhasa.berkeley.edu>
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139
In-reply-to: dreier@lhasa.berkeley.edu's message of 2 Oct 92 23:08:15 GMT

In article <DREIER.92Oct2160815@lhasa.berkeley.edu> dreier@lhasa.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) writes:

   In article <MIB.92Oct2163634@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:

      Are you really clueless?  Fonts are copyrightable in the US.

   Are *YOU* really clueless? Fonts are NOT copyrightable in the US.

And if _you_ weren't clueless, you would have taken the trouble to read
the rest of the paragraph, which clearly showed he _intended_ to say
they _weren't_ copyrightable.  Took me all of .4224 seconds to figure
out he omitted the word "not".  You could have least quoted his entire
paragraph.
--

James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson    burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
Xref: sparky comp.fonts:2941 news.answers:3265
From: dmandl@shearson.com (David Mandl)
Subject: Re: Grey text in PageMaker?
Reply-To: dmandl@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:37:56 GMT

In article 10943@actrix.gen.nz, Pat.Churchill@bbs.actrix.gen.nz () writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.163516.22336@shearson.com> dmandl@shearson.com writes:
>> I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but isn't there a way
>> to get grey text (i.e., 10%, 20%, etc.) in PageMaker (Windows
>> version)?  I usually use Corel to do this stuff, so it's never
>> come up before.  It seems to me that the option is only
>> available for graphics (circles, squares).  Surely there must
>> be a way to do this to get drop shadows, etc.?  Selecting
>> one of the Pantone grey shades doesn't work, because they're
>> actually treated as colors and so they print as black on a
>> laser printer.  Anyone have an answer?  Thanks.


>Go to the *define colours * option (under Elements), choose new and
>set C M and Y to 0% and black to 25%, call it 25% black and exit.  It
>should now be on your colours palette.  Highlight your text and apply
>the colour 25% black.
>

No, this doesn't work!  The greys show up on the screen fine,
but they print as BLACK.  I assumed that this was because the
interpreter sees that it is a "color" defined using CMYK (or
whichever color system) and so assumes that it can't be rendered
and prints it as black instead--i.e., it doesn't look at the
definition and see that the color contains only a black component.
This is what it does if you  use a "real" color (yellow or whatever).  
Have you used this technique and actually gotten the greys to
print??  Am I using the wrong driver or something?  (I'm using an
HP LaserJet III with a Pacific Page PostScript cartridge and the
Windows LaserWriter driver.  Thanks for your help!

   --Dave. 

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       New York City           | are not those of my employer,
   (dmandl@shearson.com)       |          believe me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Newsgroups: comp.fonts
From: cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf Paul)
Subject: Re: HELP: Are Window's .pfb files really Postscript?
Reply-To: cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: Alcatel Austria - Elin Research Center, Vienna
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:34:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.173902.13098@wuecl.wustl.edu> qarl@wuecl.wustl.edu (Karl Stiefvater) writes:
)Thanks!  And thanks to everyone else who sent mail.  Since the FAQ seems
)unclear in this point, I'll reiterate:
)
)".pfb" files are compressed versions of ".pfa" files; however, they
)are NOT compressed by the PostScript engine.  You won't get very
)far dumping one of these to a PS printer.
)
)To convert, there are two Gnu solutions: groff's "pfbtops" and 
)ghostscript's "pfbtogs".

It should be noted that GhostScript as of version 2.4 is capable of
handling PFB-format font files directly, rather than requiring prior
conversion to PFA-format files.
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From: ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
Subject: faq
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 06:58:54 EDT

Where can I get a copy of the faq for comp.fonts?
Thanks,
Gerry
ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu