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From: tp@mccall.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: OpenFonts under X11
Summary: HELP - need TypeScaler
Message-ID: <2331.25fd16c7@mccall.com>
Date: 13 Mar 90 15:50:30 GMT
References: <132747@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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In article <132747@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, elric@imryrr.Sun.COM (Rick Heli) writes:
> For those unfamiliar with F3 fonts, a recent press release, minus most
> of the marketing hype:
>  
> MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 5, 1990-- Sun Microsystems today
> announced that 627 F3(TM) format fonts are available to Sun workstation
> users as part of Sun's OpenFonts(TM) font technology.
> 
> At the heart of OpenFonts is F3, an open, intelligent outline font
> description.  These fonts are automatically created with Sun's
> TypeMaker(TM) software, then generated as bitmaps for any raster device
> -- from computer screens to typesetters -- at any resolution by
> TypeScaler(TM) software.

Can anyone at Sun that I haven't already talked to, or any of their
sublicensees, that can license me the source code to TypeScaler for
anything remotely resembling an  END USER PRICE (i.e. a strictly in-house,
not for sale, application) PLEASE contact me as soon as possible! (Note: I
MUST have outlines, because I need arbitrary sizes and rotations of text.)

> "There should be well over 1,000 F3 fonts available within 10 months."
...
> OpenWindows, developers and end users can acquire many more at low cost
> from type suppliers.

Similar plea for help. Assuming I can get TypeScaler, I need a nice sans
serif (the bosses will want samples to choose from), a sans serif cyrillic,
and the one that has been a REAL problem: Kanji. Anyone care to post/email
me suppliers of any and all of these in F3 format? Please?

I know this isn't the first whiney message I've posted here, but I'm not
much closer to solving my problems, and it is rapidly going to be holding
back my project. Final note: I'm not using OpenWindows (or Sun, for that
matter). I'm running on a VMS system and need to drive a Versatec
electrostatic plotter. I'll do any porting needed, but if anyone out there
has a package for VMS, let me know. I can pay money for this stuff, but OEM
prices are painful (can't say how painful, of course, because of
non-disclosure agreements).
-- 
Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com>                The McCall Pattern Company
(uucp: ...!rutgers!ksuvax1!mccall!tp)     615 McCall Road
(800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041        Manhattan, KS 66502, USA