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- From: walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norman Walsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: Font for printing IBM graphics characters
- Message-ID: <WALSH.92Nov19125147@ibis.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:51:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.144621.27797@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
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- In-reply-to: benz@ncsa.uiuc.edu's message of 17 Nov 92 14:46:21 GMT
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- >>>>> On 17 Nov 92 14:46:21 GMT, benz@ncsa.uiuc.edu said:
- Benjamin> Many times the documentation and helpful hints for DOS has drawings
- Benjamin> embedded that contain IBM (ANSII?) graphics characters. These look
- Benjamin> fine on the screen but when printed out, they change to vertical
- Benjamin> bars, plus signs, etc. that relay the concept, but look terrible.
- Benjamin> Is there a font that can print the "normal" ascii characters as well
- Benjamin> as the graphics characters on a postscript printer? Since most
- Benjamin> original writers use a mono-spaced font like Courier, a portional
- Benjamin> spaced one will not retain the correct alignment. I can find fonts
- Benjamin> with line drawing characters, but the lower entries are more
- Benjamin> graphics characters instead of the normal alphabet and punctuation.
- Benjamin> Cutting, pasting, and substituting character by character is a pain.
- Benjamin> BTW I'm working on a DOS PC, using PCPS to print txt files to a
- Benjamin> LaserWriter IIg. I also use Windows 3.1 and WinWord 2.0. Any help
- Benjamin> is appreciated. Thanks, -Ben
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- The IBM Courier (type1) outlines available on the net contain all the
- necessary characters. You can retreive a set of AFM files from
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- ibis.cs.umass.edu:/pub/norm/comp.fonts/IBM-Courier-PC8-SymbolSet-AFMs.zip
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- that produce the complete IBM OEM character set.
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- Be seeing you...
- norm
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