laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (06/10/84)
From: David L. Gehrt <dave@RIACS.ARPA> I am puzzled a little by the lack of comment in this interest group on the quality of the troff fonts being supplied by QMS for the QMS laser printer. Our users would like to produce camera ready copy on the QMS, but they are not satisfied with the results they obtain using the distributed fonts. The computer modern fonts have an acceptable "look" but they lack the special character fonts to permit production of the mathematical and chemical equations required. The standard roman style fonts look crummy, character spacing, etc. We have had numerous telephone conversations and one face-to-face with a person from QMS. The QMS line is, "Fonts are in the mail..." so to speak. In the Mar-Apr time frame we were promised a "...cleaned up..." version of the roman fonts by 1 May. Today we finally received a new distribution tape from them, and when I diff'd the fonts I found no differences. The question is, "What is the community of QMS users doing for fonts?" Talaris? TeX? or ??? To be fair, fonts are about the only problem we have had here with the system, but they are a real problem. ----------
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (06/13/84)
From: ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!allyn We have a QMS laser printer and we have Talaris software and fonts. We are very pleased with these in general (at least I am). In any case, I would suggest looking into what Talaris has to offer. Allyn Fratkin U.C. San Diego These are my personal opinions.
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (06/16/84)
From: cornell!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!pegasus!tom@uw-beaver.arpa You made mention of Talaris for the QMS. Could you give me an address or a phone number for these people. I have two 1200's here and any improvement I can make to them is appreciated. many thanks. [The address I have for Talaris Systems, Inc. is 7840 Herschel Ave., P.O. Box 8309, La Jolla, CA 92038/(619)454-3363 --Rick ]
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (07/06/84)
From: utcsrgv!utzoo!laura A company called INTRAN whose address escapes me right now is supposed to have better fonts for the QMS. The problem is that their fonts are for use with METAFORM, not ditroff. I was supposed to spend last week converting these fonts from being metaform fonts into being ditroff fonts, but instead I got sick for a week. I will probably get to it on Monday. I will let you all know how it goes. If anybody else out there has already done this, or knows of some other good fonts for the QMS let me know, please. Oh, if anybody has proper width tables for the QMS for ditroff, please send me that as well. I faked up one based on the APS but the results still are only good for the humour. Laura Creighton decvax!utzoo!laura (usenet) decvax!utzoo!laura@BERKELEY (arpanet)