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From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Outline fonts wanted
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.202459.23515@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 7 Dec 89 20:24:59 GMT
References: <1816.257cd6d4@mccall.uucp> <1514@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1514@adobe.UUCP> mills@adobe.COM (Dan Mills) writes:
>Can anyone tell me where I can get/buy outline fonts? I need these for an
>in-house plotting application, so I need the actual data, and I need to
>know the encoding of it.

It you are on the cheap and aren't real picky about quality, get the
Digi-fonts stuff.  They document their outline (data) format in the 
manual that comes with the basic set, and they have 264 different
faces available.  1-800-242-5665, 1-303-526-9435.

Just fooling around last year I wrote a little C program to
read the Digifont outlines and output "pic" to draw each character,
one per page, using troff.

I did this just to see how closely the outlines model a real
character.  These only had straight lines and arcs, and I found
them to be fairly ugly blown up to 8 inches.  They are OK at
real sizes, though.

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