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- July 14, 1990
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- University Roman font was one of the first PD fonts for Publishing
- Partner(PP). Longevity must be the cause for its popularity (it is one of
- the most downloaded fonts on GEnie); it could not possibly have been the
- quality. It was created with the old PP font editor and the serifs looked
- like Gumby's feet! The original font editor had a screen work area of
- about 2" x 2" and no guides for stroke width. I have been embarrassed over
- those serifs for a long time.
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- So, with the new PD editor from SoftLogik (thanks, Mike Kazmaier), I
- decided to make amends. I really didn't do too much to the characters,
- except for a tweak here and there, but Gumby's feet have been replaced with
- *real* serifs. Kerning pairs have been added (for Mike Loader!) and the
- letter spacing for the whole character set was modified.
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- To use, merely copy the files in this Arc over the ones that are
- currently in your PSFONTS folder. This font uses the same registration
- number of the original (#3000). Included with this file are:
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- UNIV_RMN.FM The font metrics
- UNIV_RMN.DMF The dot matrix font.
- UNIV_RMN.12H 12 point screen font (slightly revised)
- UNIV_RMN.24H 24 point screen font (ditto)
- UNIV_RMN.PS The downloadable PostScript (TM) font.
- UNIV_RMN.PSF The PS information file.
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- I did not re-do any of the other screen fonts. Those were, for the
- most part, created by someone at SL and were pretty well done. Of course,
- anyone wishing to improve the screen fonts may do so with the font editor.
- You should also delete any files named UNVR (.DMF, .PS & .PSF) from your
- PSFONTS folder. Someone (I don't remember who) made some improvements to
- the original font so that it would convert from PP format into PgS format.
- I think they added "close char" points or something like that. Since UNVR
- uses the same font ID, PgS will get confused if you do not delete them.
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- These files are offered as freeware. As such, they are placed
- into Public Domain and may be freely distributed as you see fit. There is
- no guarantee expressed, whatsoever, as to their performance.
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- Incidentally, rumor has it that SoftLogik will release several new
- font disks *Real Soon Now* (RSN). These will include several of the fonts
- that I created including LuciSans, the original Keyboard (with extras),
- PageStream (like Elan Demi-Bold; see the title page of your PgS manual),
- Calgary (like Playbill), Circus and Zip (like Zipper). I hope you like
- them.
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- Bernie LaGrave
- [B.LAGRAVE1 on Genie]
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