Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!sword From: sword@vu-vlsi.UUCP (David Talmage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: RE: looking for Amiga fonts (summary) Message-ID: <1125@vu-vlsi.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 11:56:46 EDT Article-I.D.: vu-vlsi.1125 Posted: Tue Sep 15 11:56:46 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Sep-87 06:36:07 EDT Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept. Lines: 106 Keywords: summary, font editors, font sources In <1106@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, I posted a query for a font editor and some PD fonts. Several people were kind enough and interested enough to reply. Here is the summary. Andy Finkel ({ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy) wrote to tell me about the font editor in the V1.2 Extras disk Tool directory. Silly me! That's the first place I should have looked. ( red :-} <==> embarrassment) John Olsen (u-jmolse@ug.utah.edu, ...!{seismo,ihnp4}!utah-cs!utah-ug!u-jmolse) also reminded me of the font editor on the Extras disk and send me some "rumors" about fonts on Fish Disks and a program that ports Mac fonts to the Amiga. In <633@sugar.UUCP> Peter da Silva (...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter) posted this paragraph on font interchange formats (FIF?): >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:. And started the whole ugly ;-) conversation about font sizes and such with >PS: Peter the pedant strikes again: The Amiga "8 point" font is NOT an "8 >point" font. It's an "8 pixel" font. The point size is a measure of characters >per inch and depends on such variables as the size of your monitor. On an >Amiga monitor the "8 point" font is about 8 or 9 point, and the "9 point" >font is about 6 to 7 point. In <1448@gryphon.CTS.COM> Richard Sexton (richard@gryphon.CTS.COM, {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard) tell us: He has some topaz fonts sans serifs that are, he says, more readable than topaz avec serifs on a 200-line display. He says that sometimes the Extras font editor forgets to save your changes. He suggests I look into Calligrapher. Richard points out some disadvantages to using numbers for file names when it comes time to arc a fonts: directory. To wit: >If you just go and arc a fonts: directory, you end up with a bunch >of font headers, and a file called 12 :-). You have to change all the >numbered files to names, like helvetica/24 to helvetica.24. If you do the obvious workaround, he says, you'll probably want to write a script to do all that tedious renaming. He suggests a change to the fonts naming convention: in addition to fonts:face/size, recognize fonts:face/face.size. That would take care of all the tedium of renaming. He'd also like to see fonts: put in the font search path as a last resort. In <3608@zen.berkeley.edu> Bryce Nesbitt (bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu) tells us that Fish Disk #73 has a handwriting font. He also supplies the rumor about ported Mac fonts and suggests Calligrapher as a better font editor than the one on the Extras disk. Bryce points us to some sources of fonts: >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.) Last but not least, in <2381@xanth.UUCP> Kent Paul Dolan (kent@xanth.UUCP) gives us a chuckle (well, gave *me* a chuckle anyway) by providing Peter with his ascii unicycle. My thanks to you all for your time and patience. I have found yet another source of fonts. The _Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Printer Family Font Catalog_ (Copyright 1986 by Hewlett-Packard Company) has pictures of a lot of the fonts you can get for your LaserJet. I may get around to doing these for the Amiga. Since they're owned by HP, if I get around to doing some of them for the Amiga I will contact HP to see if 1) I can distribute them in a not-for-profit manner and/or 2) if they would like to distribute them. The Zapf Humanist 601 looks nice, as do the Bauer Bodini Black, Broadway, and Cooper Black from the Headline Typeface Collection 1. I admit to a fondness for TmsRmn proportional on the "B" Cartridge. See you in the funny papers! David Talmage ______________________________________________________________________________ David W. Talmage Villanova University UUCP: ...!vu-vlsi!excalibur!talmage or ...vu-vlsi!sword Bitnet: talmage@{villvm | vuvaxcom} Arpa: talmage%{villvm | vuvaxcom}.bitnet@eddie.mit.edu