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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Font editors
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Date: 18 Aug 89 16:08:26 GMT
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Reply-To: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
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Anyway, I'm looking for a font editor.  This should preferably be PD,
hopefully with source.  I want to edit LaserJet fonts, but if source
is available, I'd be grateful for any type of an editor.

If I can't find one, I expect I'll write one.  In this case, I would like
to know what features a font editor should have.  How should it operate?
What display adapters would _need_ to be supported?  Mouse or keyboard?
How big a font would it need to be able to handle?  Is it possible to
automatically italicize or bold a font so that it'll look OK?  I would
also appreciate descriptions of any commercial font editors that you 
have used, as well as comments on their advantages/disadvantages.

Also, I'm pleased to see that despite the mims-iris font archive only
having a few utilities so far, there have already been a large number
of FTP connections.  I'm glad somebody has use for them!

I will appreciate any responses!

					\tom haapanen
"now, you didn't really expect          tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu
 my views to have anything to do        watmims research group
 with my employer's, did you?"          university of waterloo

Amount taken in the average bak robbery in Canada in 1988:  $  4,000
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