jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White) (10/04/89)
I'm not sure if these exist, I fdon't even know if they are possible, but I figure this would be the best place to ask. Are they are PD files available which when printed out on a Postscript laserprinter, will give you a real sample of that font. Something sort of like what the Print Font Sample option in the Apple Font Utility program does, but maybe also with a couple of different sizes, with bold, italic, outline, etc. I have a form that I am trying to reproduce on a Mac, and I would like to be able to matchup a font on it to it's actual font name. I know that companies sell catalogs with font samples, but I don't want to pay any money (I'd like to find the exact font, but it isn't worth spending money on). I thought about it for a little while, and realzed that it may be difficult to provide a font sample document without actually providing the font itself, but I still thought I would ask anyway. Jeff White University of Pennsylvania jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) (10/06/89)
In article <15066@netnews.upenn.edu> jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White) writes: > are PD files available which when printed out on a Postscript > laserprinter, will give you a real sample of that font ... [in] > a couple of different sizes, with bold, italic, outline, etc. > I would like to be able to matchup a font [to an existing form] > it may be difficult to provide a font sample document without actually > providing the font itself Since PostScript fonts are either outlines or stroke patterns, they are inherently scalable. A "sample" of all the characters in a font would in fact be the font itself. However, it would not be particularly difficult to provide sample fonts containing, for example, only a few characters. This would allow you to see what it looked like at various sizes, without giving away the farm. I don't know whether any font suppliers are actually doing this.