lmm@labsms.UUCP (06/06/87)
We have a new TI Omnilaser 2115 (A great Postscript laser printer) connected to our Unix machine, and we are using Adobe Transcript software to process Troff documents with it. What I'm wondering is if there are any Public Domain postscript fonts which I can use with it. There must be lots of PD laser fonts available on Macintoshes. I'm also a little curious about how to use alternate fonts from troff, Anybody have any experience in this area? Thanks Larry McWilliams ihnp4!labsms!lmm
olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson) (06/09/87)
In article <203200003@labsms.UUCP> lmm@labsms.UUCP writes: ... >There must >be lots of PD laser fonts available on Macintoshes. > >Thanks >Larry McWilliams >ihnp4!labsms!lmm One would think so, wouldn't one? I'd be very interested in any PD laser fonts also, but as far as I know, there aren't any. I think they're probably just too hard to design to give away. There ARE lots of cheap (relative to real fonts liscensed from a font house) laser fonts available from people who designed them by hand with Fontographer (check any Mac Mag). The only PD, non-bitmapped fonts I know of are the Hershey fonts, available via anonymous FTP from somewhere, but they are not in Postscript form, and are apparently fairly low-resolution line-segment fonts (like for plotters), digitized for the government by hand in 1969. -Eric Eric K. Olson olson@harvard.harvard.edu harvard!olson "If the War were fought today, most Americans doubt that we could defeat the new Japan. Its atom bombs would be cleaner than ours and come equipped with "How Did You Like Our Product" postcards that would drop from the sky and ask questions like "Where did you hear about us?" and "How many in your family died?" -John Dvorak
jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) (06/10/87)
The PostScript group spends a lot of time talking about a PostScript
version of the PD Hershey fonts, but I don't own an LW so haven't been
paying much attention. (Check with them).
As for PD laser fonts, there won't be many. It takes a lot more work
(and skill!) to design an outlined laser font at 300 dpi than it does
to twiddle the 12x8 bitmap of a 12-point font at 72 dpi. I mean,
how many ways are there to make a 12-point 'O'? (not many).
--
Joel West
{ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww or jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edujdb@mordor.s1.gov (John Bruner) (06/11/87)
Although Adobe has copyrighted the representation in the LaserWriter, isn't New Century Schoolbook a public-domain font? (Or is only the name "New Century Schoolbook" public domain?) -- John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) jdb@mordor.s1.gov ...!seismo!mordor!jdb (415) 423-4848
dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin) (08/07/87)
I have designed a laserwriter font that tries to look like (my) handwriting. which cannot by any standard be called "beautiful", possibly only legible. I have used it occasionally to give a "personal" touch to some text. I would like to put this font in the public domain. There are some problems though: - What font number should I chose? (I have written to Apple on the net but got no reply.) - The automatically generated bitmap fonts (by fontographer) really need some manual cleanup, and I don't have time to do that. - Where should I send it? Dan Sahlin email: dan@sics.uucp SICS phone: +46 8 750 79 70 Box 1263 S-163 13 SPANGA SWEDEN