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From: dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math)
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Subject: Re: Cyrillic sans-serif font?
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Date: 7 May 91 16:55:33 GMT
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In article <1991May3.095810@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes:
>[Novice Alert!]
>
>I'm in need of a Cyrillic Sans-Serif font of good quality for a reasonable
>price (and no, I really don't know what a reasonable price would be!).
>This is a font that would be down-loaded to 2 different laser printers from
>a VAX-VMS system, so a cartrige type font won't work, I need it in a data
>file that I can include into my programs. I also need metric info. I've
>never bought a font before, and don't really know what I'm doing here. I
>don't read any PC or MAC magazines, but I could probably lay my hands on
>some if I knew which to look at.
>
>Both printers will, of course, handle type 1 fonts. I imagine that's what
>I need, as I need good quality, but I don't really know for sure. I don't
>actually have a laser printer yet, btw, so even if I found a PD font, I
>couldn't evaluate it yet :-(. (Of course that doesn't mean I'm not
>interested, just that I'd want testimonials.)
>
>Please send me contact info for vendors, or places to look for ads, or
>(especially) specific information on a particular font, and where I can
>get it. Vendor responses are more than welcome.
>
>This is probably such a common question, email me the answers. I'll
>distribute to anyone that wants them, or summarize to the group if there
>are lots of requests.
>--
>Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com>                   The McCall Pattern Company
>(uucp: ...!rutgers!ksuvax1!deimos!mccall!tp) 615 McCall Road
>(800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041           Manhattan, KS 66502, USA
Jay Secora's CyrGothic (a PostScript sans-serif font) is available from
LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU in the RusTeX-L FILELIST.  I'm not sure how
good it is, but at least it's free. :)

Dimitri Vulis
CUNY GC Math
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