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- The Lintsec font is a stencil font with a full alphabet, numbers and
- punctuation. There are no kerning pairs -- hey, do YOU kern your stencils?
- The font is supported on Macintosh and PC platforms in PostScript Type 1
- and TrueType formats both. The IBM fonts have been tested and tweaked by
- your advocate, Eileen Wharmby.
-
- The Lintsec font is copyright (c) 1992 by David Rakowski. All Rights
- Reserved. This font is distributed free of charge. You may keep as many
- copies as you like and may give away as many copies as you wish to friends,
- aliens and shop teachers, providing you include this file (the one you are
- reading (the README file (as in, the one you are reading))) on disk with
- the copies of the fonts. You may sell copies of any of the four supported
- versions (see first paragraph) of this font without the author's
- permission, whether you are a for-profit or nonprofit organization, with
- the above stipulations.
-
- The Lintsec is yet another brilliant font released to the general public by
- the real people at the fictional entity Insect Bytes, where we recently ran
- into David Rakowski interviewing himself. Let's listen.......
-
- ............
-
- DAVID: So why did you call the font 'Lintsec'?
-
- DAVID: Being me, you should know the answer already.
-
- DAVID: Humor me, Dave.
-
- DAVID: Don't call me Dave.
-
- DAVID: Humor me, Davy.
-
- DAVID: The name 'Lintsec' is an anagram of the word 'Stencil,' which for
- all I know is a trademarked name. And by the way, I worked on it a
- long time in order for the characters to be represented by as few
- points as possible.
-
- DAVID: Thundering applause. So I notice you haven't released too many fonts
- onto shareware outlets recently.
-
- DAVID: That's right, Dave.
-
- DAVID: Don't call me Dave.
-
- DAVID: No, YOU don't call me Dave.
-
- DAVID: So, you haven't released too many fonts recently.
-
- DAVID: Just call me Davy.
-
- DAVID: So, you haven't released too many fonts onto bulletin boards,
- etcetera, recently.
-
- DAVID: That's right. I'm still making plenty fonts as a relaxation -- even
- as a sedative -- and being far more careful with them than I used to
- be. But I'm holding onto them, because a little while ago I noticed
- many of my fonts being sold commercially by scumbags who claim they
- did all the work. Their fonts even have the same quirky names as my
- fonts! Plus, a lot of people have been calling me at home -- a
- cardinal sin in my book -- either asking me to do custom fonts for
- them, help with ATM, asking me to send them special versions of
- fonts FOR FREE, etc. etc. etc. And a lot of people have called
- asking for permission to include my fonts on disk for their stupid
- books, acting as if they were doing me a big favor.
-
- DAVID: You sound embittered.
-
- DAVID: "Embittered"??? What, did you go to college, or what?
-
- DAVID: Well, yes, we both did. Are you bitter?
-
- DAVID: No, no, no. The fonts have made some money for my pet charity, the
- Columbia University Composers. And by the way, the vast majority of
- shareware payers have been PC users -- hardly any at all have come
- from Macintosh users.
-
- DAVID: Well, there are just so many more PCs.....
-
- DAVID: True. But Mac users have had scaleable fonts for so long that they
- seem to think of them as their birthright; PC users are far more
- grateful for cool outline fonts.
-
- DAVID: That's a pretty stupid and trivial stereotype.
-
- DAVID: What can I say? I'm stupid and trivial.
-
- DAVID: Well, at least you've provided shareware users with over 90 far out
- and unusual fonts. Grateful shareware users must be heaping awards
- on you left and right.
-
- DAVID: Nope. None. Nada. Zilch.
-
- DAVID: Embittered?
-
- DAVID: Let's get the interview going again.
-
- DAVID: Okay, okay. Why a stencil font?
-
- DAVID: Well, I noticed a lot of people "desperately looking for" shareware
- Stencil fonts on America Online and Compuserve. I couldn't help but
- marvel at these peoples' lack of taste and/or class. So I figured if
- I made a pretty good stencil font and made it free for commercial
- and noncommercial distribution, then the market would be glutted,
- the font would be overused, everyone would get bored with it, and
- eventually I'd never have to look at another stupid stencil font
- again.
-
- DAVID: So you are in essence trying to flood the stencil font market by
- dumping a free font into it, much as the Japanese did with memory
- chips in the late 1980s?
-
- DAVID: Your analogy is faulty, but you're cute nonetheless.
-
- DAVID: I know.
-
- DAVID: Meanwhile, by the way, I've improved on my other fonts and added
- international characters and licensed them; they should be available
- commercially around October 1992.
-
- DAVID: Why would anyone else want to know that?
-
- DAVID: I can't say.
-
- DAVID: So what fonts from you can shareware users look forward to in the
- future?
-
- DAVID: None.
-
- DAVID: None?
-
- DAVID: None.
-
- DAVID: Why?
-
- DAVID: Scumbags are stealing them is why. Plus other scumbags are
- converting them, without my permission, for Amiga and NExt and other
- computers and distributing them like baseball cards everywhere,
- without any READMES or acknowledgement of the font author.
-
- DAVID: Embittered?
-
- DAVID: Don't you know any other words?
-
- DAVID: I have a perfectly fine vocabulary. I even know what "slake" means.
-
- DAVID: What were we talking about again?
-
- DAVID: Why are you not making your fonts shareware anymore?
-
- DAVID: Commercial vendors is why. Columbia Composers can make better money
- if EVERYONE who uses them pays for them instead of one-thirtieth of
- one percent of the people who have them.
-
- DAVID: Is the percentage really that low?
-
- DAVID: I don't know. I made that number up.
-
- DAVID: So you don't know what you're talking about, really.
-
- DAVID: I guess you could say that......
-
- ....................................
-
- After this point we nodded off, and when we woke up eleven days later, we
- wrote this README.
-