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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Subject: Re: looking for Amiga fonts
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Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 10:44:23 EDT
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In article <1106@vu-vlsi.UUCP> sword@vu-vlsi.UUCP (David Talmage) writes:
>After playing with some publishing software, I'm becoming bored with the
>fonts that come stock with the Amiga.  Has anyone out there some PD fonts
>to share?

There are some. Fish disk 73 has a small, handwiting-like font.  There
is a large collection of ported Mac fonts.  (I don't know where...) 
 (some PD, some stollen from Apple or other Mac companies)


> Better yet, does anyone know of some Amiga software for designing
> fonts? 

A passable font editor comes with the V1.2 upgrade.  It's on the extras
disk.  "Calligrapher" lets you do color fonts... and has a much better
editor.


>Does anyone know if there's a standard (like IFF?) for exchanging fonts?

Yes.  It pre-dates IFF, but all fonts come in standard format.
They get placed in the FONTS: directory.  Alternately you can 
"assign FONTS: MYDISK:FONTS" and take fonts from some other directory.
You can't set a fonts search path (yet).


>It would be really neat to have the little piggies and sheep fonts just like
>on the um, er, Mac. ;-)

"Alohafonts" has a "little pictures" font.  Have not seen Zapf Dingbats
yet (for all you Laserwriter fans).

Sources:

AlohaFonts		;pictures, borders, special use fonts
PO Box 2661
Fair Oaks, Ca  95628-2661
$19.95 + tax for Ca

Zuma Fonts, Volumes 1,2,3   ;mostly big fonts for video titling.
Brown-Wagh Publishing
1-800-451-0900
  408-395-3838
$34.95 each.  (Nice fonts.  $34.95 per disk is kind of expensive.)


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