NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/fonts/3766

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From: [e-mail] (Bruce Gilland)
Subject: publisher's apprentice / TRUE TYPE ...
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I am in search of a (windows/DOS) utility that will allow one to print
"proof" pages of TRUE_TYPE fonts.  In other words, for a given font, it
will display in tabular form: 1) the ordinal value of each character
(integers 0..255 or some subset (32..255?); 2) the ascii value of the
character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc); and 3) the equivalent characters from
the font being "proofed"

For example, a given symbol font might contain, among other things, a
recycling symbol at position 65, so a portion of the proof page might
look something like this:

    ...
    ...
    65    A    (the recycling symbol)
    66    B    (the other recycling symbol)
    67    C    (some other equally exciting symbol)
    68    D    (you get the idea ...)
    ...
    ...

I have heard that a package called Printer's Apprentice can do this, and
that it is public domain or shareware.  Does anybody know whether this is
true, and if so, where might I download it from?  (Archie doesn't
seem to know about it...).  OR, is anyone aware of a similar package?

Thanks, Bruce