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- New Fonts for Windows - Bill Sellers 1990
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-
- This set of fonts for Microsoft Windows is based on the public domain
- Table of Coordinates for Hershey's Repertory of Occidental Type Fonts
- and Graphic Symbols. This dataset is not particularly useful since it
- was first published in 1967 before the days when everyone started coding
- characters in some variant of ASCII. It is also not in any format that
- anyone actually uses. However, the typefaces themselves are very pretty
- with no less than three different types of Gothic font, and they are
- coded as vector fonts which allow them to be easily scaled with very
- little loss in quality.
-
- Windows handles vector fonts very nicely. It faithfully reproduces them
- in any size and on any printer and as a bonus, for once, what you see on
- the screen is what you get on the printout. But converting the font data
- to a windows font file is monstrous (well it is without any
- documentation of the file format!).
-
- To cut a long story short, these font files work with windows. Or at
- least they work with Windows Paint, PC Paintbrush, and Micrographics
- Designer so I have every reason to believe that they will work with any
- windows application that uses the windows vector fonts. You need to
- install them like any other windows fonts:
-
- Start up windows.
-
- Start up CONTROL.EXE
-
- In the INSTALLATION menu, select Add New Font
-
- Follow the instructions....
-
- You are asked to select the directory containing the fonts. The
- default is the root directory for drive A:. Put the disk with
- the fonts in drive A: and click on OK.
-
- Select the font you want to install from the list.
-
- You are then asked to select a destination directory for the
- fonts. The windows directory is the default. Click on OK to copy
- the font file.
-
- Repeat as necessary to install the fonts you want.
-
-
- The complete set of fonts supplied on this and previous SuperDisks is as
- follows:
-
- CyrilC - 32 cyrillic character in upper and lower case. ON THIS DISK
- GothGE - Letters and numbers for German gothic.
- GothIT - Letters and numbers for Italian gothic.
- GothGE - Letters and numbers for Old English gothic.
- GreekC - 24 greek characters in upper and lower case (multilined).
- GreekS - 24 greek characters in upper and lower case (single lined).
- RomanC - Letters and numbers in a multilined serifed style.
- RomanD - Letters and numbers in a multilined san-serif style.
- RomanS - Letters and numbers in a single lined san-serif style.
- ScripC - Letters and numbers in a cursive script style (multilined).
- ScripS - Letters and numbers in a cursive script style (single lined).
-
- All the above fonts contain the standard ASCII sets of punctuation from
- 32 to 127
-
- And just for fun:
-
- Symbol - a set of 95 assorted symbols: astrological, astronomical,
- musical and cartographical. ON THIS DISK
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