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- Files included in this zipfile:
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-
- CAMBERIC.AFM Adobe Font Metrics file
- CAMBERIC.PFM Windows font metric file
- CAMBERIC.WID Ventura Width Table
- CAMBERIC.PFB Font File in Adobe Binary Type 1 format
- CAMBERIC.txt This file
-
- The font file only contains characters in the lower 127 ASCII range, which
- is sufficient for a non-commercial, English-speaking/oriented user such as
- myself. That is, it has almost all the characters that you can get on your
- PC screen with a single keystroke.
-
- All the files necessary to use this font, as is, with ATM for Windows are here.
- All the files necessary to use this font, as is, with Ventura Publisher're here
- All the files necessary to import into CorelDRAW! are here.
- All the files necessary to use MERGEPRD for Word for DOS are here.
- All the files necessary to import into ZSoft's SoftType are here.
-
- I leave it up to you to know how to do this. Consult your program's document-
- ation if you don't know how...
-
- How it was done:
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-
- This font was scanned using a hand scanner from a type book. Individual letters
- were then saved as individual bitmaps. I then used Corel DRAW! as the drawing
- program to create the individual letters as objects from the bitmaps.
-
- A departure for me this time, rather auto-outlining using Publisher's Type
- Foundry, was to draw the individual letters in Corel DRAW! This gave me
- a greater degree of freedom in the placement of the individual nodes. I then
- used Corel DRAW! to export the individual letterforms to an existing Corel
- font, overwriting the old font.
-
- The next step was exporting to Publisher's Type Foundry using WFNboss (a
- companion font management program included with Corel DRAW!) In PTF, I did
- final clean-up along with setting the kerning info I wanted to use.
-
- When I re-imported the font to Corel, it now had kerning info. This was in-
- cluded when I then exported the font to Adobe Type 1 format, using WFNboss
- once again.
-
- Unfortunately, ZSoft, the creator of Publisher's Type Foundry, won't create a
- translator which exports to Adobe Type 1 format. They also seem to resist
- the notion of creating the necessary *.afm files, so useful for installing the
- fonts in systems other than Windows. Thus all the importing-exporting to Corel
- to get the Adobe Font Metric file WITH the kerning info.
-
- Not done yet...
-
- Corel's WFNboss currently has a few bugs (which are on the verge of being
- corrected), such as writing incorrect header info in the Binary font file
- and giving each and every font it exports an identical Unique Font ID. The
- Adobe Type 1 export filter also will create an *.afm file which Ventura's
- AFMTOVFM conversion program for creating Ventura Width Tables can't handle.
-
- For those who are interested, I almost always change the StartCharMetrics
- number to 192 if the existing number is greater than that and then I simply
- let AFMTOVFM change it to the correct number. WFNboss also inexplicably
- puts quite a few "spaces" between the StartKernPairs number and the end of the
- line. These spaces must be removed for the conversion to *.vfm to work.
-
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-
- Perhaps one day, with the sheer bulk of potential customers using the PC
- platform and postscript, creating fonts on the PC will be as "easy" (aheeem!)
- as it is on the MAC. but until then... Sigh....
-
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-
-
- Disclaimer
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-
- This font is "free" and provided as-is with no warrants or guarantees as to
- the completeness of the information or its suitability for any particular
- purpose.
-
- ==========
-
- Use it, modify it, share it. This is done in the spirit of sharing what I
- learn. I encourage you to do likewise.
-
- Enjoy
- Dave Fabik
- 2322 NE Pacific # 193
- Portland, OR 97232
-
-
- p.s. I make no money off this, so I do not accept collect calls!