Xref: utzoo rec.games.chess:4833 comp.text.tex:2104 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!upba!tssi!nolan From: nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan) Newsgroups: rec.games.chess,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Chess fonts, anyone? Summary: Adobe's Cheq is probably still available Message-ID: <1727@tssi.UUCP> Date: 18 Jul 90 14:52:21 GMT References: Organization: Tailored Software Svcs, Lincoln Neb Lines: 27 In article , sohan+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sohan C. Ramakrishna-Pillai) writes: > Does anyone know of a Metafont or Postscript description for chess > pieces, preferably in the public domain? This *may* not be what you're looking for, but John Renner at Adobe produced a font called 'cheq' which is a Type 1 font. There is both a Macintosh and a PC version of the font. I think the first version of the Mac font was posted to the net around last November. Since then, John has made some minor corrections to the font. The PC version was still in testing at last report. Adobe might be distributing these for a small fee, they're *not* in the catalog.I know its available both on GEnie and America Online, because I put it there. John also indicated he might work on a font that has informant-type notation symbols. (some but not all of them are in Symbols and Dingbats) I don't know the status of this project. I've been using the Mac version for several months and it's great! I've produced pieces as small as 7 point, and as large as 48 point, the latter being the largest size I can get and still produce a full chessboard 8" wide. Please don't ask me to send it. I'll check with John and see if it can be posted to comp.binaries.{mac,ibm.pc}. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Nolan "I don't know what apathy is, Tailored Software Services, Inc. and I don't want to find out!" Lincoln, Nebraska (402) 423-1490 UUCP: tssi!nolan should work, if not try something like uunet!frith!upba!tssi!nolan