dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk) (06/02/88)
Has any one any experience with ZSoft's Publisher's Type Foundry? It looks good; is it? Dominik -- bitnet: user DOW on the bitnet node HARVUNXW arpanet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu uucp: ...!ihnp4!wjh12!dow
hburford@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM (Harry Burford) (06/03/88)
In article <222@wjh12.harvard.edu> dow@wjh12.UUCP (Dominik Wujastyk) writes: |>Has any one any experience with ZSoft's Publisher's Type Foundry? It looks |>good; is it? Yes it is. I have been using it since I got a copy of their Alpha release a long time ago. It requires a PC running Windows and you will find that an XT will work, an AT is OK, but if you want it to work at a resonable speed, you need a 386. You can edit both outline and bit image fonts. You can scan a page into, say, publishers paintbursh and then selectively cut characters off the page and paste them into the character set you are designing with the PTF. Be advised, if you are like me and don't have good graphic art skills or Typography experience you will very efficiently and quickly produce ugly work. Check out PC Publishing, June 1988, Page 49. There is Part I of a 3 part series where they evaluate 4 font editing programs. They discuss FontGen+ and PTF as well as a couple of others in the June issue. -- Harry Burford - NCR E & M Wichita, Printer Engineering PHONE: 316-636-8016 FAX: 316-636-8889 Harry.Burford@Wichita.NCR.COM C-Serve: 76367,151