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- The font in this archive is shareware: please read the notice below, which
- is from the author. It was originally intended for the Mac, and has been
- converted for use on the Amiga. The changes were:
-
- Read the original mac files into the Amiga using mac-2-dos
- Convert the bitmap fonts using "mAFont"
- Convert the mac postscript font file to Amiga ascii format (using "mAText")
- Convert the mac ascii readme file to Amiga ascii format (using "mAText")
-
- You should be able to use them with any PostScript interpreter. To use
- them with "Post" (V0.2) make a directory "PSFonts:" - if you do not have one
- already. Then copy the file "Gordon" to it, preserving case.
- If you use the file "init.ps" as supplied you will then be able to use
- findfont to automatically download them.
-
- To use the amiga format bitmap fonts uncompress the file "Gordo.bmap.lzh"
- into your FONTS: directory using "lharc -x x Gordo.bmap.lzh"
-
- The rest of this file is the original author's shareware notice:
-
- ******
-
-
- Francis X. "Butch" Mahoney, Jr.
- 302 Lessard St.
- Donaldsonville, La. 70346
- (504) 473-9378
-
- The fee for this typeface is $15 as is, check or money order(preferred).
- Or send $20 and a disk and a list of the sizes of the bitmaps you would
- like to have and I will try to oblige (within reason...like, don't ask
- for 127 point,etc...). Also, I can include (and probably will anyway)
- varying spaces to help you set your own type. I like very close spacing,
- but if you like to spread out your type, then this will be available from
- within the font itself. This capability will be for those people who don't
- have all the fancy new software that will do manual kerning, etc. (available
- only to registered owners). [proposed spacing - units based on selected
- point size - 1,1/2,1/4,1/8,1/16,1/32,1/64 and maybe smaller]
-
- Hello Font Lover,
-
- Previously, I had become very discouraged by distributing my work on CompuServe.
- A couple of bad experiences made it difficult for me to
- continue. However, recently I have received some recognition (Thank you
- Richard Eckhardt), and it has made me rethink my position.
-
- The economy is bad in Louisiana and I am not doing well. You may have
- noticed the address change. I cannot afford the time on CompuServe except
- for uploading. Also, my troubles are your gain for neither can I afford
- to do any other kind of marketing for my work other than ShareWare (they
- would cost at least twice as much or more). And just having me "sit on
- these faces" (pun intended) is not doing any good for myself or anyone
- else.
-
- My first uploads to CompuServe were rather primitive attempts. I think
-
- now you will find that I am capable of good - excellent quality alter-
- natives to the "higher priced spreads".
-
- I will assume you know what to do with this typeface.
- (use Font/DA Mover 3.2 or higher, don't let Font/DA Mover change the
- font id, etc...)
- .........if you don't know how to work these, call!!! (not
- collect)
- .........if you can't call, write (like I said, I can't afford
- CIS)
-
- There is only one size bitmap with this typeface (I'm trying to keep my
- long distance and your download charges to a minimum). And there is a
- good chance
- that it is not very clean (some of them are however, and even print fairly
- well on ImageWriter - besides, LaserWriter doesn't care what the bitmaps
- look like - you can use geneva first, then switch to this face before printing).
- It will however, automatically download to any PostScript Device i.e.
- LaserWriter, Linotronic, or any of the new PostScript printers that are
- accessed by AppleTalk. (Versions of this typeface can be prepared for
- manual downloading as a text only file for non-Macintosh computers if the
- need should arise.)
-
- If you should happen to investigate any of the other typefaces I've uploaded
- you will probably discover that this is a form letter tacked on to every
- one
- of them. You can skip reading the others, however, the ShareWare fee remains.
-
-
- PLEASE PAY ME...
-
- Thank you.
-
- P.S. If you are curious as to what happened to Calligraphic, I had to shelve
- it. It doesn't work with the newer LaserWriter software. The new Fontographer
- software was supposed to fix the problems. The recompiled Calligraphic
- worked with the new LW software but the decorative letters don't print
- properly (they turn out with black letters on the background, and they
- are supposed to be white - I haven't been able to fix it - maybe with the
- next release of Fontographer). Furthermore, it would only work if ZapfChancery
- was available, which leaves out regular LW users.
-
-
- Special note on Gordon
-
- All the letters and some of the characters are here. But this one is incomplete.
- No numbers and a lot of the special characters are missing.
- Temporarily and inadequately substituted are Helvetica characters.
- I hope to have this finished soon. There is enough for most typing purposes.
- It is mostly intended as a headline or accent typeface (fashioned after
- the Gordon's Jewelers logo - which, by the way is in this font - I built
- this face around it when I was preparing a letterhead for my brother, who
- works at Gordon's)