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From: psycho@mango.ucsb.edu (Scot Kellan Forbes)
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Subject: Re: Glyphix Fonts
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Date: 21 Nov 90 04:23:18 GMT
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In article <1990Nov20.182011.22101@cat.de> martin@cat.de (Thomas Martin) writes:

>(18 point) are (naturally) included in this package. They are HP-Laserjet II
>compatible and I tried successfully to edit them in a font editor.

At COMDEX this year I noticed many font scaling packages that worked
with Windows.  These were packages that would produce printer and
screen fonts of any size (almost) "on-the-fly".  Some even supported
fonts by other manufacturers (Adobe, Bitstream, Nimbus).  However,
none of these supported Glyphix fonts (Swifte) or Typefoundry fonts
(.OVL by Zsoft).  I have many of each of these and it would be nice
to use them in such a package.  Are there any conversion utilities
(commercial or PD) that accept either or both of these types of
outline fonts and produce outlines compatible with Bitstream or
Adobe?

Also, there is a product called SoftType by Zsoft that claims to be
able to us Typefoundry outlines, does this software convert the
other way? (SoftType outlines to Typefoundry outlines)

Thanx,
Scot Forbes
psycho@cornu.ucsb.edu