lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) (05/01/91)
There are a lot of PostScript fonts floating around.... Some of them are for ATM, some are for the mac, most can be converted to work with almost anything if you have a spare year or two... It would help a lot if there was a little more sanity. How about * making afm files available for all these fonts? * a printed catalogue of public domain fonts. Would you be willing to pay postage-plus-printing-costs for a hard-copy printout of them all, perhaps in loose-leaf four-hole A4 format[(or whatever the locals use here in North America :-)]? How much is a reasonable price? US$10? I am prepared to do this over the next few months if there is interest. Mail me and tell me. * an ftp server that could conver file formats on the fly. Then you could change directory to pub/fonts/mac -- stuffed-up trash-hex pub/fonts/ibmpc -- Automatic Teller Mach -- er, ATM format pub/fonts/ascii1-- type 1 ascii pub/fonts/ascii3-- type 3 ascii This isn't too hard to do, and if I was on the Internet directly and had disk space I'd even do it. * an Internet font server using the ISO distributed font protocol (it's saner than OSI, don't worry!). Or even using the new X11 font protocol, with the necessary modifications. In this way a few sites could each carry subsets of fonts, and anyone on the net could use them... Interested? Lee -- Liam Russell Quin, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto... 416 963 8337... lee@sq.com `What one person finds valuable others do not even notice. And they do not notice that they do not notice.' -- Scott Kim, `Interdisciplinary Communication', in `The Art of [HCI] Design'
ar12@prism.gatech.EDU (REGISTER,ANDREW H) (05/01/91)
In article <1991Apr30.203505.22204@sq.sq.com>, lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes: > There are a lot of PostScript fonts floating around.... > > * a printed catalogue of public domain fonts. > Would you be willing to pay postage-plus-printing-costs for a hard-copy > printout of them all, perhaps in loose-leaf four-hole A4 format[(or > whatever the locals use here in North America :-)]? > How much is a reasonable price? US$10? > I am prepared to do this over the next few months if there is interest. > Mail me and tell me. I have compiled just such a catalogue. It is printed on a hp-laserjet II and not a postscript printer (yet). It is on 8.5x11 sheets and has a table at the top with all chars 32 through 255 printed. At the bottom of each page is an example of a variety of type sizes from 40 to 6. Also there is a short paragraph at 10pts. All the fonts on cica.cica.indiana.edu are in there! It is already about 100 pages and I still have about 30 or so pages to send to the printer. The print files are made, just the printing needs to be done. So if you are looking at about 150 pages, at about 10 cents a page, plus binding at about $3, plus shipping at (this is a wild guess) $3, plus paying the shareware or useware fees (as it turns out some of the better fonts are shareware) which would amount to about $250, I would think that $25 would be a better price estimate. I am not volunteering to make such a catalogue but if there is enough interest at $25 I might be willing. Also, I am thinking about printing them all on a postscript printer using the same table format. I know for a fact that some of the fonts do not print correctly under postscript but do print correctly on the hp. I might be willing to distribute this to folks for the same amount if and when I print it. e-mail is appropriate for any future correspondence since this could be construed by the use-net police as a commercial use. ;-) Toodles Andy -- Andy Register Internet: ar12@prism.gatech.edu Bitnet: aregiste@gtri01.bitnet -- Sometimes the Bears Win, Sometimes the Bulls Win -- -------- But the Pigs *Always* Lose -------- (author unknown)
brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu (David H. Brown) (05/03/91)
In article <1991Apr30.203505.22204@sq.sq.com> lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes: >[...] >How about >* a printed catalogue of public domain fonts. > Would you be willing to pay postage-plus-printing-costs for a hard-copy > printout of them all, perhaps in loose-leaf four-hole A4 format[(or > whatever the locals use here in North America :-)]? > How much is a reasonable price? US$10? > I am prepared to do this over the next few months if there is interest. > Mail me and tell me. > [...] >Interested? >Lee > >-- >Liam Russell Quin, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto... 416 963 8337... lee@sq.com > `What one person finds valuable others do not even notice. > And they do not notice that they do not notice.' >-- Scott Kim, `Interdisciplinary Communication', in `The Art of [HCI] Design' Sure, I'm interested. Particularly in the font catalog, but in the other ideas you mention as well. If this happens in the time my email address is still valid (about another year as an alum), consider my $10 yours. Of course, assuming that the catalog comes into existance before any centralized distribution network, it would be surpassingly useful if locations of the fonts were included. Also, by "printed," it would be great if you meant printed in the typeface being listed. Thanks for your effort, assuming you have time to actually do this! Dave Brown brownd@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu