geof@apolling.UUCP (Geof Cooper) (09/01/87)
[sorry, I can't send to bitnet directly, my sendmail.cf is too clever] > Fonts of interest are 10 pitch and 12 pitch raster fonts, at 240 dpi, > 300 dpi or higher resolutions. .... I know of two sources of public-domain fonts. One is the familiar set of computer modern roman fonts, a by-product of the TEX project at Stanford. Imagen has been distributing raster versions of these fonts for years. The latest versions are reputed to be very good (I don't think we distribute the latest version). These fonts were created using MetaFont; I don't know whether the MetaFont descriptions are also public domain, but I think that you can work something out with the powers that be at Stanford. The other source is the Hershey fonts, a set of stroke-fonts developed at the NBS years ago (I think they were the first digitally encoded fonts). There are some rather wierd restrictions on their distribution, but they are essentially in the public domain. There is a Usenet distribution containing a large subset of the fonts (that sounds like it contains everything you are asking for). These fonts are not nearly as good as the CMR fonts, but they are "serviceable" in small-medium sizes. From my experience, they make pretty good automatically-generated screen fonts (i.e., at resolutions where all fonts look cruddy, these don't so bad). - Geof