rkpc@mergvax (Rob Kedoin) (01/29/90)
In article <615@nikhefk.UUCP>, henks@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Schouten) writes: > ... > I would like to be able to print russian text on either a dot-matrix > printer or a postscript printer (preferably both). I'm looking for any > existing cyrillic fonts or any description of such. > ... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Henk Schouten > Software Expertise Center uucp: hp4nl!hhinsi!henks > Haagse Hogeschool - INterSector Informatica uucp: hp4nl!nikhefk!henks > Louis Couperusplein 2-19 phone: (31) 70 3618419 > 2419 AP Den Haag, The Netherlands fax: (31) 70 3618599 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following information was posted to this newsgroup some time ago. I hope this helps. -Rob Kedoin UUCP: {decvax, motown, cpmain, icus}!mergvax.uucp!rkpc ARPA: rkpc%mergvax.UUCP@decvax.dec.com USMail: Linotype Company - R&D 425 Oser Avenue Hauppauge, NY 11788 VOICE: (516) 434 - 2729 FAX: (516) 434 - 2072 ---cut here--- Article 644 of comp.fonts: Path: mergvax!mcdhup!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!sunic!chalmers!holtec!simulina!hk From: hk@simulina.se (H}kan K{llberg) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript,comp.text Subject: Cyrillic (russian) text - Summary! Keywords: cyrillic russian font sun sunview laser postscript Message-ID: <1056@simulina.se> Date: 15 Aug 89 15:49:13 GMT References: <1011@simulina.se> Distribution: comp Organization: Simulina AB, Goteborg, Sweden Lines: 71 Xref: mergvax comp.fonts:644 comp.lang.postscript:2699 comp.text:4563 I wrote: >I need to handle cyrillic texts, so I need a PostScript russian font. >I also need a SunVeiw font to handle it on the screen. >Please, answer by E-mail. I'll summarize to comp.fonts if I get good >answers. I did! So here it is: ( sorry for the delay ) There seems to be two lines of solutions - The TeX way and regular PostScript fonts. The TeX fonts seem to be free of charge and Scott Horne <horne-scott@YALE.ARPA> (..!harvard!yale!horne) promised to send me the fonts if I wanted them. Also Maverick <shoopak@topaz.rutgers.edu> has them. PostScript fonts that are delivered for the Mac has font metrics files that transcript can use and there are screenfonts for the Mac included. These are convertible to fonts for the Sun. You need a free program that I don't know the name of, but Dan Sahlin <dan@sics.se> has it. Here comes the list of fonts. Kirillitsa from CasadyWare. Sold by Mac dealers. Linguist Software has a font too. Mac dealers. Devonian International, P.O. Box 2351, Montclair, CA 91763 Has one that covers several slavonic languages and turkish. Windsorgraphics, Kings House, Kings Arms Lane, Ringwood, Hampshire BH24 1AH Has one by name Laserperfect. Per Ambrosiani by Slavic Institution, U of Stockholm Tel: +46 8 16 20 00 ( to the U ). He has made the font with Fontographer. Educorp Inc. has one in their shareware/pd catalog... Tel: 1-800-843-9497. Casady & Greene, in Monterey, CA, have it. In comp.text we saw that: Raimund Riem, ZFE2KOM33, Siemens AG, Munich, West - Germany mail: @riem!ztivax Private address: R. Riem, Steinsdorfstrasse 6, D-8000 Muenchen 22 West Germany has made some variants with Fontographer. His address seems very strange to me. In the header it stood: <riem@ztivax.UUCP> (Habst du mein antwort bekommt?) Well, that was a lot to choose between. Thank you very much everyone. By the way, if you need remaping of your Sun keyboard there is a good program that is called Sunkeys. It works very well for me. Hakan -- Hakan Kallberg Tel: nat 031 - 18 61 24 Simulina AB int +46 - 31 18 61 24 Egnahemsv 22 C E-mail: hk@simulina.se S-413 21 GOTEBORG Sweden Article 651 of comp.fonts: Path: mergvax!mcdhup!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!mcvax!unido!ztivax!riem From: riem@ztivax.UUCP (Raimund Riem) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Cyrillic (russian) text - Great Reply Keywords: cyrillic fonts, postscript versions for Macintosh Message-ID: <727@ztivax.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 89 08:39:44 GMT Organization: Siemens AG in Munich, W-Germany Lines: 142 Hello friends of cyrillic fonts! Sorry I am late, but we had some holydays and then the machine had been crashed for a day. So now I will reply. This morning, when I opened my EMail box, I found a lot of mail. There must be a russian invasion. It seems to me, that everyone want to print russian text. So, sorry, but I can not answer to everyone individually. I will resume the answers and questions in this group. 1. The fonts I developed are postscript downloadable fonts and work with LaserWriter and Linotronic on an Apple Macintosh. 2. Each postscript version as a couple of screen versions. sizes: 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24 3. For the screen versions I spent only a little time, so they dont look as fine as the printed font on the LaserWriter. So, its not good to use these fonts on ImageWriters. 4. Fontdescription: a) Leningrad1 is a stroke font and has the same sizes as Helvetica. Part of the characters (like !@#$%^&*...) I took from Helvetica. I use this font for advertisements and technical documentations. b) Vilnys is the bold version of Leningrad1 c) Petersburg is an outline font. Part of the characters were taken from Times. The font has the same sizes as Times. This font is very good readable and I use it for articles in magazines and newspapers. For large bold headlines one need a bold version of this font. But til yet I had not time to develope it. It will be ready til the end of year,- I hope. d) Tolstoi: I developed it via scanner from a russian childrens talebook. The font is little haevier. as Petersburg and has also different style.. e) Cyrillic is the postscript version of the PD font Moscow. I did it just for fun and quick. It looks like these russian typewriters they use in the USSR. I made this font for copying the typewriter style. Someone guesses why? screensize only 12 points available. For Petersburg I plan to make also an italic version, because italic russian characters are much different from the computed italic version. 5. Keyboard layout for russian text is not standard, because the russian alphabet has more characters then the latin. We decided to use a mnemonic keyboard layout. There are two reasons for this decision: a) You can use german rules for automatic hyphenation. It works 98% with our layout and is better then the russian hyphenation in the text program Ragtime 2.0, we found out b) its easy to learn and if someone is used to type on a keyboard like the IBM typewriter, he can change the keyboard mapping via Macromaker and Control Panel. We made also a KMAP resource for that purpose. 6. I never tried out the fonts on different machines, maybe Fontographer can produce also a postscript text file one can transfer to Amiga etc. I dont know and have not enough time to solve this. Sorry. 7. Distribution: To send all this "stuff" via EMAIL is a little bit crazy - a lot of kbytes on the net. So I think its better to send diskettes via normal mail. If someone is interested in a test printing of all the fonts I described above, he (or she) should send an envelope with his (her) adress. I will send a LaserWriter printout. I spent much time in developing these fonts and I do not like to distribute them just for nothing and I slso would be a poor man for sending diskettes and letters to all those interested people. So I decided to sell the fonts for a symbolic price of $90.-. This includes all the postscript fonts, the screen versions, but not the source code. So interested people can contact me: Adress: Raimund Riem Steinsdorfstrasse 6 D-8000 Muenchen (Munich) W.-Germany Tel. 0043 89 293250 Fax 0043 89 2913985 If you want to buy these fonts, please dont forget a cheque. Someone asked me for croatian fonts: I know a fellow also developing russian fonts and old dyrillic fonts. He sells his product for about 500.- DM per font. If someone is interested in other cyrillic stuff, contact HSD - Mannheim, Tel 0621 709069, W.-Germany (distibutor) or Dr. Mozgovoy, Tel. 0681 813379, W.=Germany (developer) or Fa. URW, Harksheiderstrasse 65 D-2000 Hamburg 65 Tel. 040 60 60 50 per font 700./ DM They also sell a program like fontographer The book I mentioned in my last article, is the offical typesetting standard book of the USSR and has been printed 30 years ago and only 15000. If someone has a new version of Fontographer or another better program (I only have an old buggy version of Fontographer) and interested in developing cyrillic fonts, I would be happy to get a contact. Ok, for today its enough. I hope that I answered all questions. R. Riem - riem@ztivax