Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!adm!cmcl2!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Calamus fonts (was Re: COMDEX And Atari) Message-ID: <3811@cs.yale.edu> Date: 28 Oct 89 04:13:39 GMT References: <467699a3.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <4670da63.14a1f@force.UUCP> <0927890305189323@thelake.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Reply-To: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 27 In article <0927890305189323@thelake.UUCP> pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve writes: > >DeskSet II is a contemporary page layout system. As I recall, it uses >Compugraphic Intellifont technology. My local Atari dealer has had >brochures on DeskSet II since last winter, but there is no evidence that >the Atari ST version has been released for sale. This is no major loss, >since Calamus does such an impressive (and speedy) job, also with >Compugraphic technology. > >Compugraphic, currently a subsidiary of Agfa-Gevaert, is a company that >makes medium-to-high-quality commercial phototypesetting machines (and >some text editing systems). It has a large typeface library. In the last >couple of years, it has begun marketing digital representations of those >typefaces, in its own proprietary vector encoding as well as in PostScript >format. Does anyone know if Calamus can produce Ultrascript output? I already have a considerable number of Ultrascript fonts, and while Calamus looks attractive, it will end up costing many hundreds of dollars if I have to buy a complete new set of fonts just to use it. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: | | Bitnet: | | UUCP: | ==================================================