[comp.sys.mac] HP DeskWriter Fonts Wanted

ericf@madnix.UUCP (Eric Feigenson) (01/12/90)

I have an HP DeskWriter, which I am happy with overall (it's not a Postscript 
printer, but it's better than an Imagewriter!)  The one thing I'd like for it
is more fonts.  I have the HP font package, which satisfied my craving for a
while, but I'd like *MORE*.  So, what I'd like to know is:

	1. Are there any HP DeskWriter compatible outline fonts around?
	   I know the ones that come with the printer are from Agfa;  do
	   *they* have any others that would work?  Does anyone else?

	2. Failing (1), could anyone recommend bitmap fonts (using the old
	   4X size trick) that might work well?  Even better, does anyone
	   have any direct experience using bitmap fonts on the DeskWriter?
	   Names of specific font manufacturers would be helpful.

Thanks!

Eric Feigenson
uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!ericf  (UUCP, but not for much longer!)
ericf@madnix.UUCP (might work, depending on your mailer)

FONTS: JUST SAY NO! (er, I mean YES!)

FlashsMom@cup.portal.com (NancyAnn none Sheridan) (01/16/90)

>2. Failing (1), could anyone recommend bitmap fonts (using the old
           4X size trick) that might work well?  Even better, does anyone
           have any direct experience using bitmap fonts on the DeskWriter?

Beverly Hills [c.bin.mac, a few years back] has a good 48 point.  I'm now usin
a logic font I cobbled together, mainly from Columbia, a neat font that comes'
ATE1M1 V1

with Fontastic, but is PD.  [I got a 56 [4 x 14] point by doubling a 27 in FOn
Bad

tastic.

Ca't mail it to you, but I could post it to MacNet.

From: FlashsMom@Cup.Portal.Com
Reply-To: Flash@Dcjcon.Das.Net

mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb) (01/17/90)

In article <25975@cup.portal.com> FlashsMom@cup.portal.com (NancyAnn none Sheridan) writes:
>>2. Failing (1), could anyone recommend bitmap fonts (using the old
>           4X size trick) that might work well?  Even better, does anyone
>           have any direct experience using bitmap fonts on the DeskWriter?

I would really appreciate if somebody could email/post a location or method
for obtaining 4X fonts (particularly:  Garamond, New York, San Francisco,
Chicago -- you know:  the standards...). Is there software that'll scale up a
font (doesn't seem to make too much sense:  scale it up and then scale it down
again...)

Thanks,
--Mike