michael9@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Michael Sullivan) (06/05/91)
I am in need of some rather large fonts for use in desktop publishing. That means that I can't just take a small font and enlarge it, as that produces the shaggies. Any suggestions as to where I might find some big fonts. BTW, by big I mean an inch to two inches high ( 100 - 200 points?). Suggestions welcomed! -- |uunet!garfield!michael9|'"Proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing,"| |michael9@odie.cs.mun.ca| says God. "But you have given us proof," says | |POB 756, Goulds, Nfld.| man, "Therefore you do not exist. QED." "Oh, my," | |A0A 2K0 | says God, and disappears in a puff of logic.' |
wbrand@krishna.shearson.com (Willy Brandsdorfer) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun5.022608.14245@garfield.cs.mun.ca> michael9@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Michael Sullivan) writes: > I am in need of some rather large fonts for use in desktop publishing. That > means that I can't just take a small font and enlarge it, as that produces the shaggies. > Any suggestions as to where I might find some big fonts. BTW, by big I mean > an inch to two inches high ( 100 - 200 points?). > Suggestions welcomed! Look for a font called Texas (~104 pts). I bought it from a pd distributer compusomethingorother. Part of a 2 set video font collection. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William Brandsdorfer | UUCP: !uunet!shearson.com!wbrand Lehman Brothers | ARPA: wbrand@shearson.com 388 Greenwich St. | Voice: (212) 464-3835 New York, N.Y. 10013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
med@druco.ATT.COM (Myron E. Drapal) (06/08/91)
in article <1991Jun5.022608.14245@garfield.cs.mun.ca>, michael9@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Michael Sullivan) says: > Xref: drutx comp.sys.amiga.misc:3817 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:1405 > > Any suggestions as to where I might find some big fonts. BTW, by big I mean > an inch to two inches high ( 100 - 200 points?). > This may or may not help.... But, when I needed some large fonts for some video work I was doing, I used a MAC to generate the text I needed. The MAC desktop publishing program I used could even save to Amiga ILBM files, then used Apple File Exchange to get it to a MessyDos disk, and Voila... Note that this was for text used on a video screen, but I bet some wizard out there could figure out how to do the general case so that they could be used as standard Amiga fonts. Myron Drapal AT&T Denver med@druco.ATT.COM
eoo@let.rug.nl (Eize Oosting) (06/08/91)
In article <1991Jun5.022608.14245@garfield.cs.mun.ca> michael9@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Michael Sullivan) writes: > > I am in need of some rather large fonts for use in desktop publishing. That >means that I can't just take a small font and enlarge it, as that produces the >shaggies. > > Any suggestions as to where I might find some big fonts. BTW, by big I mean >an inch to two inches high ( 100 - 200 points?). > >Suggestions welcomed! > The only two fonts I have, which come close, are Coop - 88 cSwiss - 102 I think they came from a disk with vDraw on it. Wait a second, I'll check.... Nop, they are on the Tv*Text disk (among lots of other fonts, but not that big). I haven't found any other big fonts however. /\__________/\ /\___________________________________________________/\ / \ / \ | Letteren- | Marvin Minsky once defined Artificial Intelligence as: | | Faculteit | '... the science of making machines do things that | | R.U. Groningen | would require intelligence if done by men'. | | The Netherlands| | | | Does this include adding a device to the Mountlist? | | eoo@let.rug.nl | Eize Oosting | \ __________ / \ ___________________________________________________ / \/ \/ \/ \/
nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo) (06/09/91)
In article <1991Jun5.022608.14245@garfield.cs.mun.ca> michael9@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Michael Sullivan) writes: > I am in need of some rather large fonts for use in desktop publishing. That >means that I can't just take a small font and enlarge it, as that produces the >shaggies. > Any suggestions as to where I might find some big fonts. BTW, by big I mean >an inch to two inches high ( 100 - 200 points?). On Fish disk #489 there's a utility called "MkBmap" that renders PostScript fonts into Amiga bitmap fonts at any size. I haven't tried it yet, but armed with that and some PD PostScript fonts, you could be in business. You'll also need some version of Post, the PostScript interpreter library, also available on a Fish disk. Fish disk #489 is up on isca.icaen.uiowa.edu; there are some PD and GnuWare PostScript fonts on ab20.larc.nasa.gov in /amiga/graphics/fonts/postscript. nj
hill@cse.uta.edu (Adam Hill) (06/12/91)
MKBmap will work with ANY Type 1 or 3 Adobe Postscript Fonts. This
includes Adobe Type Manager compatible fonts.
The specific file that you need is the .PFB file. This contains the
actual Postscript code to render the font. One thing I do is make sure
that:
1) The ADOS name of the font jives with the actual name of the font.
(The name is in ascii at the very top of the .PFB file)
2) The fonts resides in the directory assigned to PSFONTS:
MkBmap will create the appropriate directory in FONTS: and the
.font file if you need it to. Be aware that none of the fonts will be
absolutely perfect. You might have to do minor tweeking with FED.
All in all I am very impressed with Adrian's Post library. It makes
learning Postscript in an interactive fashion easy and fun. (Yeah...
Right! :-) )
--
adam hill -- hill@cse.uta.edu ASOCC - University of Texas at UTA
I programmed for three days Make Up Your Own Mind.. AMIGA!
And heard no human voices. Amiga... Multimedia NOW!
But the hard disk sang. - TZoP Born To Run SVR4rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) (06/13/91)
In article <1738@gufalet.let.rug.nl> eoo@let.rug.nl (Eize Oosting) writes: >> I am in need of some rather large fonts for use in desktop publishing. That >>means that I can't just take a small font and enlarge it, as that produces the >>shaggies. You can get a tex font that is real big, or make it as large as you want with metafont, generate the tex font, then use ali ozer's program that can generate amiga fonts from tex fonts. The results are terrific. I have used this in ComicSetter for doing really nice viewgraphs. The tex fonts are the best I have seen. Cheap plug: my old comicsetter works terrific under 2.0 on a 3000. ron -- Quote of the month:"The 300 answering machines at (name suppressed) that pass for tech and sales support have been amazingly _unhelpful_." --Terrence Talbot