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From: clouds@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Need International Character fonts for MSWord 5.0 laser jet plus
Summary: Digi-fonts kind of ugly
Keywords: Roman 8
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Date: 6 Oct 90 20:57:00 GMT
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In article <5241@alpha.cam.nist.gov> koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) writes:
>
>Digi-Fonts is another product (non-Bitstream) that allows generation of 
>custom international fonts in download format from outlines (non-Bitstream).
>
My company ordered a Digi-fonts face (their equivalent to Eurostile). Their
catalog is exciting, showing HUNDREDS of faces--but we found the execution
to be below standard. Intercharacter spacing (which, as anyone who's tried
to digitize a font knows, is the hardest part to get right) was erratic, the
screen fonts were truly rotten, and the final product, printed on a HP Laser-
Jet II, was ragged beyond our tolerances, especially at smaller point sizes.

It's dangerous to generalize from one example, but I wouldn't spend a lot of
money on Digi-Fonts without testing one first to see if it meets your
standards.

--Kathy


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