izumi@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Izumi Ohzawa) (07/16/88)
In the course of developing a graphics package locally, we have converted parts of The Hershey Fonts as described below to AutoCAD *.SHP file format. These fonts are essentially in the PUBLIC DOMAIN (see below). They are now available via standard anonymous FTP from SIMTEL20.ARPA as: Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD1:<MSDOS.AUTOCAD> HRSH2ACD.ARC.1 BINARY 123123 4D54H Izumi Ohzawa izumi@violet.berkeley.edu or ...!ucbvax!violet!izumi ----------------------------------------------- Available fonts are: Roman: Simplex, Duplex, Complex, Triplex Italic: Complex, Triplex Script: Simplex, Complex Gothic: German, English, Italian Greek: Simplex, Complex Cyrillic: Complex Other parts of the Hershey Fonts such as Mathematical symbols, and Japanese Kanji and Hiragana fonts have not been converted. The converted AutoCAD-format Hershey Fonts only covers the 'occidental' font subset of the original Hershey Fonts. We have a small font compiler which converts (ASCII) *.SHP file to a binary packed format (totally different from AutoCAD *.SHX format), and a program to display compiled font files on IBM PC CGA/EGA. These programs are written for MS C compiler, and are the only documentation (sort of :-> ) for our compiled font format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The original Hershey Fonts: - are a set of more than 2000 glyph (symbol) descriptions in vector ( <x,y> point-to-point ) format - can be grouped as almost 20 'occidental' (english, greek, cyrillic) fonts, 3 or more 'oriental' (Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana) fonts, and a few hundred miscellaneous symbols (mathematical, musical, cartographic, etc etc) - are suitable for typographic quality output on a vector device (such as a plotter) when used at an appropriate scale. - were digitized by Dr. A. V. Hershey while working for the U.S. Government National Bureau of Standards (NBS). - are in the public domain, with a few caveats: - They are available from NTIS (National Technical Info. Service) in a computer-readable from which is *not* in the public domain. This format is described in a hardcopy publication "Tables of Coordinates for Hershey's Repertory of Occidental Type Fonts and Graphic Symbols" available from NTIS for less than $20 US (phone number +1 703 487 4763). - NTIS does not care about and doesn't want to know about what happens to Hershey Font data that is not distributed in their exact format.