cramer@kontron.UUCP (02/10/87)
I requested information a couple of weeks ago about font editors to produce HP soft fonts for the IBM PC. I received a lot of requests for whatever information I located. Here it is: Tom Putnam at Purdue said: > A very good commercial package is available from SoftCraft and > called Laser Fonts. They sell a basic package including a full > set of Hershey fonts and a font editor for something around $100.00 > (if I remember correctly). > > You can buy additional diskettes full of fonts for a nominal > additional charge. They even provide a tool to build print driver > files to work with Microsoft Word and with their own word processor. > These are the folks that brought us Fancy Font for the Epson and IBM > dot matrix printers. > > SoftCraft Inc. > 222 State Street > Madison, WI 53703 > (608) 257-3300 In addition, I found a blurb in the February 3 PC Week for an HP font editor called Hot Lead priced at $148. The address and phone number given were: Janus Associates 991 Massachussetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 354-1999 Jeffrey William Gillette sent the following: > The Duke Language Toolkit contains a generic font editor (FED.EXE) and filter > program (FNT2LJ.EXE) that provides LaserJet Plus support for custom designed > fonts. This is not public domain - Duke University preserves the copyright > to insure public availability without charge. > > The best way to get the Language Toolkit is to download it from the > Duke Humanities Bulletin Board. 919/684-3169 is the number. The login > is 'bbs' - no password. The system will prompt you for the necessary > information. Note that you will not, on your first call, be able to > download the files you want. We validate users every few days, however, > and on your second call you will be able to get the H-P programs. > > We have created both portrait and landscape fonts with Fed. Fixed and > proportional spacing are both supported, along with kerning and a variety > of sizes. The H-P programs are *at your own risk*, but we are aware of no > deficiencies or bugs in their use. > > Peace, > > Jeffrey William Gillette uucp: mcnc!ethos!ducall!jeff > Humanities Computing Facility bitnet: DYBBUK at TUCCVM > Duke University > Clayton E. Cramer