rbourass@udenva.cair.du.edu (Mr. Photography) (12/16/87)
Can anyone offer information regarding SoftCraft's "Laser Fonts" program, Times Roman Outline "Dutch 801", or a program called "Fontware?" Need all info on each for a Hewlett Packard Laser Jet II. (i.e. vendors, cheapest price, etc.) Any help would be appreciated.... Rich
stevec@uthub.toronto.edu (Stephen Curran) (12/17/87)
In article <9608@udenva.cair.du.edu> rbourass@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Photography) writes: > > Can anyone offer information regarding SoftCraft's >"Laser Fonts" program, Times Roman Outline "Dutch 801", or >a program called "Fontware?" Need all info on each for a >Hewlett Packard Laser Jet II. (i.e. vendors, cheapest price, etc.) > I'm interested too. Their ad in Byte (Dec. pg 47) claims the package works with WordPerfect. I'd like to know how it fits in. Does it make printing a document any harder? How is it driven by WP? It also claims you can use graphics from within WP...true?? thanks ...stevec
kworrell@ccvaxa.UUCP (12/18/87)
Be careful with softcraft. Although they seem to have a very good program and lots of helpful manuals (the program is really very good), some of their fonts are real trash. Others are ok. Try to get a look at them before you spend any money. I looked at a russian font which they were selling (at a non-prohibitive cost ~$20) and it was really junk, very thin, only one size, no bold/ital... The IMPRESSION I got was that there was some professor somewhere who spent the time (and not too much I might add) to get a russian font for his/her students. This professor then gave this font (free of charge) to SoftCraft who are now selling it (no legality replies please). The characters were poorly shaped, drawn, and the ordering of the characters within the font was of no known sequence dealing with either a russian keyboard or any permutation of an english keyboard. Other fonts (ENGLISH) looked just great. For these, I got the IMPRESSION that SoftCraft had found some font designer and paid them real american dollars to do a good job. Like I said, seeing it first helps to make a rational decision. Kurt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt J. Worrell USEnet: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!kworrell Gould CSD-Urbana ARPAnet: kworrell@gswd-vms.arpa 1101 E. University BELLnet: (217) 384-8500, x740 Urbana, IL 61801
wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) (12/24/87)
In article <27000006@ccvaxa> kworrell@ccvaxa.UUCP writes: > >Be careful with softcraft. Although they seem to have a very good program >and lots of helpful manuals (the program is really very good), some of their >fonts are real trash. Others are ok. Try to get a look at them before >you spend any money. Write and ask for their "Product & Font Catalog". It SHOWS every font, lists the available sizes, etc. >I looked at a russian font which they were selling (at a non-prohibitive >cost ~$20) and it was really junk, very thin, only one size, no bold/ital... Currently sells for $15, and contains 3 sizes (8-12-14). Disk #48. >The IMPRESSION I got was that there was some professor somewhere who >spent the time (and not too much I might add) to get a russian font for >his/her students. This professor then gave this font (free of charge) to >SoftCraft who are now selling it (no legality replies please). > >The characters were poorly shaped, drawn, and the ordering of the >characters within the font was of no known sequence dealing with either >a russian keyboard or any permutation of an english keyboard. No professor. The Cyrillic font distributed by SoftCraft is generated from the Hershey database with SoftCraft's Cfont program, which unfortunately is not very good at filling our the vectors. >Other fonts (ENGLISH) looked just great. For these, I got the IMPRESSION >that SoftCraft had found some font designer and paid them real american >dollars to do a good job. SoftCraft sells (a) Bitstream Typefoundry Fonts (not sold as individual fonts but as outlines with a font manipulation program), which are extra-high quality fonts, which they license from Bitstream; and (b) SoftCraft Standard Fonts, which are sold on font disks at $15 each, most of which I suspect were scanned from printed fonts. Others are user-contributed fonts of varying quality, sold as-is. >Like I said, seeing it first helps to make a rational decision. That's why you should write or call for their "Product and Font Catalog": SoftCraft, Inc. 16 N. Carroll Street, Suite 500 Madison, WI 53703 1-800-351-0500 or (608) 257-3300 Their catalog is pretty honest in what it shows: It'll really print like that on your printer. DISCLAIMER: I have no connection with SoftCraft except as a satisfied user. Wolf N. Paul ihnp4!killer!dcs!wnp