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From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: TypeScaler question
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.144008@mccall.com>
Date: 16 Nov 90 20:40:08 GMT
Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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I just read the press release from Sun about their OpenWindows sources code
giveaway. The press release mentiones "OpenFonts(TM) with its TypeScaler(TM)
technology" as part of the package. I have a few questions for people who know
about this software:

1) Can this be the same software that a well known font vendor and Sun licensee
has proposed to license to me for an obscene (5 digit) price? (He just called me
again this morning!)

2) I have an application that needs to print quality text on an electrostatic
plotter (Versatec 400dpi). I was intending to imbed TypeScaler software into my
application to acomplish this. (My application is strictly in-house, no
distribution, sale, licensing, royalties, etc.) Any reason I can't use this
software distribution for that purpose?

3) What fonts come with it? What kinds of fonts can it use? Where can I get them
(free, commercial, etc.)? I need a good sans-serif (something like helvetica), a
sans-serif Cyrillic, and Kanji.

4) It says the source will be available for $995(!) media charge from Sun
distributors on January 1. Can anyone tell me where I can find a Sun distributor
in Kansas? I want my tape ASAP (depending on the answer to the above questions,
of course).
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Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com>                The McCall Pattern Company
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