Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!ruslan From: ruslan@ecsvax.UUCP (Robin C. LaPasha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: looking for Amiga fonts Message-ID: <3824@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 22:28:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3824 Posted: Sat Sep 5 22:28:36 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Sep-87 01:47:00 EDT References: <1106@vu-vlsi.UUCP> <633@sugar.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 59 Keywords: fonts, type face, new and startling? Summary: Amiga fonts, editors (product discussion) In article <633@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > 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? > > Yes. I don't have any, but there are some floating around. Well, I do > have a couple of 8-point fonts I replace the system font with. > > > Better yet, does anyone know of some Amiga software for designing > > fonts? > > Yes, it's called "FED" and it came with the 1.2 upgrade on the extras disk. > > > Does anyone know if there's a standard (like IFF?) for exchanging fonts? > > Fonts are usually handed around in arc files containing foo.font and a > bunch of files with anmes like "8" and "12". You create the directory > "fonts:foo", copy the numbered files into it, and copy the foo.font file > into fonts:. > > > It would be really neat to have the little piggies and sheep fonts just like > > on the um, er, Mac. ;-) > > Why? > > -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter > -- U <--- not a copyrighted cartoon :-> I know of a nice set of fonts - not PD but they won't break the bank either - they are former Mac PD fonts ported to the Amiga and sold for ~$12/disk by some folks called EarthBound Software (Suite 237, 1005 E. 60th St., Chicago IL 60637 (312)667-8048.) I don't know about the sheep, but there's some dogs and dinosaurs (on their Font Disk A-1.) There's about 30+ fonts in multiple sizes on each disk, including math, Cyrillic, and "runic" fonts on their first 2 collections, plus an installation routine, so the price seems okay to me. They also have an editor of sorts, called Font-A-Size (I've just ordered it but I don't have it yet and can't comment on it's usefulness;) its main features seem to be: 1)the ability to re-scale a font to any point size, and 2)to "trick" other programs into letting you use disk fonts (their ex.= Aegis Images,) and 3)to let you use more than they like (their ex.= DPaint, Notepad.) It costs ~$15. The only editor I've seen (other than Fed, that is) is the Calligrapher (advertised in the latest _Amazing_Computing_, p.59, by InterActive Softworks) which can do colors, and costs $100. (They also have some font collections @ $30-35/disk.) Not for me, at least for now - seems to be more for video titling and such. I am interested in getting some other Mac fonts to the Amiga - Richard Sexton (richard@gryphon) mentioned some program available to port them - does anybody know what this is and how to get it? (Tried to email to him but it seems to have died on the way twice... but feel free to email any info to me.) No, I'm not connected to anybody above, except as a reasonably satisfied customer (of Earthbound SW; a disk's worth of business.) Robin LaPasha ruslan@ecsvax.UUCP