Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: "public domain" fonts ... However ... Message-ID: <1001@uw-beaver> Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 01:11:46 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1001 Posted: Tue Apr 9 01:11:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Apr-85 06:31:24 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 32 From: William LeFebvre > As was made clear in the old *Find-a-Font* catelog [sic], none of > those fonts can reasonably be regarded as being in the public domain. > While most of them are not beautiful, they are nearly all stolen. However... To my, admittedly, untrained eye, it looks like the Berkeley default troff fonts, R, I, B, and parts of S, are raster copies of parts of the Hershey repertory. Perhaps they are second, third, etc. generations, but it does look like the original source was the Hershey repertory. Would that make them public domain? However... If they are taken from the Hershey repertory, they are bad renderings of a mediocre font. One would do better to re-rasterize them himself/herself. Speaking of which: I have a program that generates fonts from the Hershey repertory (or any file with the same format). I originally wrote it to generate a specific format font file for local hackery, but I can easily rewrite the relevant portions to generate vfont files if there is enough interest. It uses a symmetric DDA to draw the lines, and pen shapes and sizes are specifiable at run time. Send mail to me directly if you are interested. Be forewarned: it may take me awhile to get it to the point where I would feel comfortable about giving it to people ... like, a few weeks. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University