stu@hobbes.scs.com (Stu Brown) (02/27/90)
I am looking for opinions on Bitstream soft fonts for use with my LaserJet IIP. How do they look compared to other available fonts? Value for price opinions. Best prices. Please E-mail directly. Thanks. -- Stuart Brown Silicon Compiler Systems uunet!sdl!stu
hirayama@sumax.UUCP (Pat Hirayama) (03/01/90)
From article <141@hobbes.scs.com>, by stu@hobbes.scs.com (Stu Brown): > I am looking for opinions on Bitstream soft fonts for use with my > LaserJet IIP. How do they look compared to other available fonts? > Value for price opinions. Best prices. Please E-mail directly. > Thanks. > -- > Stuart Brown > Silicon Compiler Systems > uunet!sdl!stu Bitstream fonts are fine. It is an especially good bargain if you get one of those $5 or $10 package deals for them when you purchase WordPerfect or Word or some such. A set also comes included with your purchase of Quattro Pro from Borland. Bitstream fonts compare well for quality with HP's downloadable soft fonts. The most annoying thing about Bitstream fonts concerns font generation (this is also a strongpoint). Bitstream allows you to generate any size of font you want, basically. Whether you want 6, 8, 10 and 12 point all the way up to 128 point, I think. The main drawback with this is time. It can take several minutes to generate fonts on a 386 machine. It can take up to a few hours on an AT class machine. For the old 4.77 Mhz 8088 machines....well, you could run the generation program overnight .... Pat -- Pat Hirayama * Microcomputer Support | Q: "What must I do to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | convince you?" hirayama%sumax.uucp@beaver.cs.washington.edu | Worf: "Die." ..!{the world}!uw-beaver!sumax.uucp!hirayama | ST:TNG - "Deja Q" -- Pat Hirayama * Microcomputer Support | Q: "What must I do to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | convince you?" hirayama%sumax.uucp@beaver.cs.washington.edu | Worf: "Die." ..!{the world}!uw-beaver!sumax.uucp!hirayama | ST:TNG - "Deja Q"