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- From: ah395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey T. Hansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: desire "Architect" PostScript font
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 15:12:12 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: ah395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey T. Hansen)
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- In a previous article, bass@cs.utk.edu (Vance Bass) says:
-
- >Thanks for the pointer to "Tekton". I found a font purporting to be a
- >PostScript "Architect" on ftp.cica.indiana.edu [129.79.20.84].
- >The font unpacks, apparently successfully, under PC-DOS using PKUNZIP, but
- >the .PFB and .PS files are screwy. Perhaps this is a result of trying to
- >pack a Mac file into a DOS archive?
- >
- >Has anyone else had any success with this font? I'd write the author, but
- >his address in the readme file got munged along with the font. I'd appreciate
- >any confirmations and/or work-arounds.
- >
-
- I've used this 'architect' font in both MS Windows and on the Mac. There
- are two versions of the font on CICA, architec.zip and arc13p.zip. The
- two are the same font, one unpacks to .pfm and .pfb files and the other
- is a .sit file that you use for the Mac. Darned if I remember which is
- which, only that they are the same.
-
- As an architect, though, it's not quite what we call suitable. Certainly
- it's hand lettered, but it's not of the style that architectural draftsmen
- learn and use on construction documents. Which leads me to my question.
-
- I've got a suitable hand letter font that we use in AutoCAD, but it's
- an AutoCAD .shx file, which is a compiled 'shape' file. What that means
- is each individual stroke of the character is defined in an AutoCAD
- specific file format, and then compiled so that it is usable in AutoCAD.
- I'm interested in translating this font into a Postscript font, but before
- I plunk down my hard earned and taxed dollars, I'd like to know the best
- way of doing this. My options, assuming there is not a direct program
- out there that reads shape files and translates them, is to take a
- drawing file from AutoCAD and piping it through a font creation utility
- such as fontographer or fontmonger. Is this possible? Has anyone
- tried this yet?
-
- AutoCAD release 12 supports postscript fonts, but only in outline form.
- There is much more one can do with a filled font, and being able to go
- both ways would be a bonus, in my estimation.
-
- Anyone?
-
-
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- ah395@cleveland.freenet.edu
- Jeffrey T. Hansen
- Not affiliated with Case Western Reserve University
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-