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From: vera@cadence.com (Vera Vallentin-Price)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Corel Draw fonts to Ventura fonts ???
Keywords: Fonts, Corel Draw, Ventura Publisher, DTP
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.235835.10390@cadence.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 23:58:35 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!
> 
>   
>  Sean B. Purdy                         | stu003@sysi.surrey.ac.uk 


Try converting the Corel fonts using WinBoss (Corel Utility). If you
don't have this utility, you may want to upgrade your Corel version. 

I believe that WinBoss converts from and to different font formats.

-vera