Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!geac!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Free PostScript Font Catalogue (and other things about fonts...)
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.203505.22204@sq.sq.com>
Summary: Afm files wanted/printed catalogue offer/net access to fonts
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 20:35:05 GMT
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There are a lot of PostScript fonts floating around....

Some of them are for ATM, some are for the mac, most can be converted to
work with almost anything if you have a spare year or two...

It would help a lot if there was a little more sanity.

How about

* making afm files available for all these fonts?

* a printed catalogue of public domain fonts.
  Would you be willing to pay postage-plus-printing-costs for a hard-copy
  printout of them all, perhaps in loose-leaf four-hole A4 format[(or
  whatever the locals use here in North America :-)]?
  How much is a reasonable price?  US$10?
  I am prepared to do this over the next few months if there is interest.
  Mail me and tell me.
  
* an ftp server that could conver file formats on the fly.
  Then you could change directory to
	pub/fonts/mac	-- stuffed-up trash-hex
	pub/fonts/ibmpc	-- Automatic Teller Mach -- er, ATM format
	pub/fonts/ascii1-- type 1 ascii
	pub/fonts/ascii3-- type 3 ascii
  This isn't too hard to do, and if I was on the Internet directly and
  had disk space I'd even do it.

* an Internet font server using the ISO distributed font protocol (it's
  saner than OSI, don't worry!).  Or even using the new X11 font protocol,
  with the necessary modifications.
  In this way a few sites could each carry subsets of fonts, and anyone
  on the net could use them...

Interested?

Lee

-- 
Liam Russell Quin, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto... 416 963 8337... lee@sq.com
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