jfadams@tc.fluke.com (Jim Adams) (03/08/88)
I'm working on some documents that require some special character sets. I'm
using Ventura Publisher with an HP LaserJet II. A font editor/generator
capable of producing LaserJet fonts would be greatly appreciated. I'm aware
that Bitstream (among others) sell font "outlines" that are "installed" using
their own proprietary installation/conversion program. I need to be able to
generate a completely different character set, so these off-the-shelf packages
won't do. Incidently, the computer system running all this is IBM-PC/EGA, but
if you know of an editor that requires Hercules or VGA, I'll take whatever I
can get.
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James F. Adams John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Everett, Washington USA
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>I'm working on some documents that require some special character sets. I'm >using Ventura Publisher with an HP LaserJet II. A font editor/generator >capable of producing LaserJet fonts would be greatly appreciated. >James F. Adams John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Everett, Washington USA I'm using a package called ZSOFT Type Foundry and would recomend it. It runs on a PC under Windows and allows you to design or modify fonts as either bit image or outline. Conversion programs are included to rasterize an outline font, or convert a bit image to an outline. You can take your HP fonts and edit them very easily. However, if you are not a typeographer, you will very efficiently and quickly be designing very UGLY fonts! I'm using the TF with scanned in images and then creating logos and such. Again, if you are not an artist, (I'm not) you can easily make AUFUL work. Using the toys is easy. Its designing the fonts thats hard. Good-Luck James! -- Harry Burford - NCR E & M Wichita, Printer Engineering PHONE: 316-688-8016 FAX: 316-688-8889 Harry.Burford@Wichita.NCR.COM C-Serve: 76367,151 ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid@sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request}