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From: fritsch@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Dan Fritsch)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Corel Draw fonts to Ventura fonts ???
Keywords: Fonts, Corel Draw, Ventura Publisher, DTP
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Date: 18 Dec 90 12:56:57 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.224309.22019@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>, ee88sbp@surrey.ac.uk (Sean Broderick Purdy) writes:
> 
> I work on the student newspaper at Surrey University, where we use
> Xerox Ventura Publisher 1.1 for DTP on an IBM PS/2 model 60 & an
> Apple LaserWriter II NT. We also have Corel Draw 1.1 which has lots
> of fonts included. 
>   
> What I want to know is can the Corel Draw Fonts be converted
> somehow into downloadable PS fonts that can be used in Ventura 
> Publisher. It would save having to save a header using one of the
> Corel fonts as a bitmapped .PCX file every time we want to do 
> something a bit different, eg using Hobo or Carta typefaces. 
>   
> OK, maybe I am asking the impossible, but it's worth a try!
>
  
The new release of Corel Draw 2.0 has an addition to WFNBOSS that
lets you convert any of the Corel fonts into Adobe Type 1 format!
CD 2.0 now includes over 150 fonts (including renditions of Caslon,
Garamond). I've converted a couple of the fonts and the quality looks
pretty good to me (at least on a Deskjet +).

Another addition you may find useful is the ability to create custom
fonts that can be used like any other CD font (and can also be converted
to Adobe Type 1 format). In fact, you can import a Type 1 font, convert 
the characters to curves, and export the altered characters as a new
Type 1 font. So Corel Draw can now be used as a Postscript font editor.

NOTE: I have not extensively tested the reliability of the exported fonts
with products such as ATM, but it should work fine.

  Dan Fritsch			(fritsch@cs.unc.edu)
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill