Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!hacgate!ashtate!jpb From: jpb@ashtate (Jim Bankston) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Cyrillic sans-serif font? Message-ID: <1991May11.232744.17739@ashtate> Date: 11 May 91 23:27:44 GMT References: <1991May3.095810@mccall.com> Reply-To: jpb@ashtate.UUCP (Jim Bankston) Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA Lines: 77 In article <> dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu writes: >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 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 >DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET DLV@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU Some information about available utilities/editors/fonts etc... A company in Pennsylvania known as XenoTechnix Inc. has been advocating a standard coding scheme for Soviet Cyrillic computing. Their standard is known as CYRILSCII (CYRIL-lic Standard Code for Information Interchange). Their address is: XenoTechnix Inc. 2 Neshaminy Plaza 122 Bensalem, PA 19020 U.S.A. Phone: (215) 639-2996 They publish a catalog of various Utilities/Wordprocessors etc.. for both the IBM and the Macintosh. For the IBM only: UkieType: Billed as "the TRULY 100% bilingual Ukrainian/English word processing program for PC's"... The address for UkieType is: Steven Loboyko P.O. BOX 703 Elk Grove Village, IL 60009 U.S.A. Disclaimer: I have no connection with either of the above. I post this FYI only. Jim Bankston Ashton-Tate Corporation 6411 Guadalupe Mines Road San Jose, CA 95120 (408) 927-5328