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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
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Subject: Re: FontSizer
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Date: 19 Jan 89 19:58:48 GMT
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In article <1403@zippy.eecs.umich.edu> spencer@crim.eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
>Has anyone actually gotten FontSizer?  I called MacConnection last
>week, and they didn't have it ("We've been getting a lot of requests
>for it.") and claimed that they couldn't tell me who made it, even (he
>looked in some database "just got the new one in today", and it wasn't
>in there.)
>
>It sounds like exactly what I need to make bitmap fonts for my LWIISC,
>but I would like to know more about it before springing (assuming I
>could find someone who would sell it to me).

For those of you interested in FontSizer, I called U.S. MicroLabs
and asked them a few questions:

1. It will size a font from 13 to 127 point sizes.  They're working
   on one that will do smaller sizes...they'll look poor but have
   the correct spacing tables.
2. You must have a Postscript LaserWriter.  It downloads the font size
   you want to the Macintosh and genrates the bitmaps for that size.
3. You cannot use the bitmaps for a LaserWriter II SC according to the
   liscensing agreement.  i.e., you can't go over to so-and-so's
   LaserWriter, generate 127 point bitmaps, and take them back home
   for your SC.  (legally, at least.)

So, what you've got here is a product that will give you accurate
character spacing for those of you who do a lot of dtp.  If you're
interested, it's shipping for $99.95.  Call 1-800-552-7654

Ken

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