timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler) (11/13/90)
I have CorelDraw, and I was wondering what I can do with the WFN-Boss program that came with it. I can make ZSoft Type Foundry fonts from the CorelDraw .WFN files. What can I do with these fonts? Can I convert them to postscript fonts? Can I install them as screen fonts into Windows 3.0? What is ZSoft Type Foundry, anyway? TT
alu@cbnewsk.att.com (Alan Lustiger) (11/15/90)
In article <2339@sparko.gwu.edu>, timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler) writes: > I have CorelDraw, and I was wondering what I can do with the WFN-Boss > program that came with it. I can make ZSoft Type Foundry fonts from the > CorelDraw .WFN files. What can I do with these fonts? Can I convert > them to postscript fonts? Can I install them as screen fonts into > Windows 3.0? What is ZSoft Type Foundry, anyway? > > TT Yes, you can create PostScript, HP LaserJet, and Windows screen fonts (also Ventura/GEM screen fonts) with Publisher's Type Foundry. WFNBoss creates OTL files that can be used with PTF and also with ZSoft's other font product, SoftType. If you don't want to create fonts from scratch, get SoftType: it comes with ~60 URW fonts and the ability to stretch, slant, shadow, outline and otherwise screw around with both the URW font outlines and the OTL files created by PTF and Corel. SoftType also creates Postscript, HPLJ, Windows GDI (screen and dot-matrix printer) and Ventura screen fonts and metric files. DeskJet support is promised soon. PTF does not yet run under Windows 3.0 very well. SoftType does. Hope this helps. -- Alan Lustiger |_ | | AT&T Bell Laboratories ERC / |( Princeton, NJ attmail!alustiger or att!pruxk!alu