Club Amiga de Montreal - CAM/CAM_CD_1.iso/files/360a.lha/PostScript_Fonts/readme-invis

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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 "HGDSSanSerif" 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 "HGDS.bmap.lzh"
into your FONTS: directory using "lharc -x x HGDS.bmap.lzh"

The rest of this file is the original author's shareware notice:

                ******

Francis X. "Butch" Mahoney, Jr.
10536 N. Oak Hills Pkwy. B
Baton Rouge, La.  70810
[phone] (til 11pm central time)

First, I want to apologize for having altered this font.  I have left out
4 letters and replaced them with the word "Sample".  This is because I
haven't gotten any income from ShareWare (this sample IS FREE - please
pass it around).
This is a terrible inconvenience for you (as well as for me, since it is
a separate font that had to be made and tested) and for this I am sorry.
 The previous LaserWriter fonts I uploaded have been accessed by over 400
users and I have just not received any kind of feedback (not to mention
money, even though I did).  I still don't know if they (the fonts) even
work well (I need to know so that I can work out spacing, kerning, etc.)

Enough of the soapbox stuff.  I still want to make these fonts available
to you at a very good price and with good user support.  If you don't have
access to a LaserWriter, you can make arrangements to use my LaserWriter
service.

This LaserWriter/LaserWriter Plus font is first in a (planned) series (HG
Designer Series) of "Invisifonts".  Stencils, if you will.

They way you use them is this:

First, get some kind of graphic object (i.e., MacPaint drawing, MacDraw
object, PageMaker object, etc.) and place it on the page where you want
the text to "appear".  This graphic can be anything from random shadings
shaded rectangles to just lines (any angle). Then, place the text over
the graphic.  You will notice when using the screen version of the font
that where the letter shape is, you will be able to see what is "behind"
the text.  The rest will be blacked out.  This is very useful.  What really
happens when this font is printed to the LaserWriter is that where you
see black on the screen, the LaserWriter "whites out" the background leaving
you with letters "filled" with patterns of you making!  (By the way, Macintosh
does NOT actually "print" a space character to the screen, it moves the
"pen" to the next position based on the width of the space character.
This means you will see gaps between words on the screen.  This is not
a problem for the LaserWriter, so don't worry about it.  The space character
will actually "white out" the background like it is supposed to.  This
font has been tested to this extent and it works just fine with "plain
text" and align left.)

This font can be different every time you use it!

Another suggestion would be to type a letter or some text in MacDraw, then
save the file in PICT format, then import the file into PageMaker.  There
you will be able to s-t-r-e-t-c-h the letters to any size or proportion
you want (holding down the shift key BEFORE you "grab" the corner will
ensure that the letters will be scaled proportionally, if that's what you
want).  You should be able to have some nice artwork show through the letter
then duplicate the graphic and crop it and place it in relation to the
letter in such a way that the object (art) looks as though it is "coming
through" the letter (a la Art Nouveau) to the "other side".

Let your creative juices flow!!

Instructions: Use the Font/DA Mover (v.3.2 or later) to install the font
in the system.  Move the LaserWriter font file (looks like the LaserWriter
with a "document" with the letter "T" on it) into the system folder (just
keep it with the system file if you don't use folders), and use the font
like you would any other.  It's that easy.  If you don't have a LaserWriter:
install the screen version and the LW font like above then if you have
the LaserWriter drivers in the system folder you can "print" the document
to a postscript file that can be sent to a printer later.  (You do this
by holding down the command key and the f key simultaneously as you click
on OK from the print dialog box.  This should "download" all the font information
into the PostScript file instead of a LaserWriter - this should also save
some time at the printer's.  Use the download utility in DL 11 or PS-Dump
on the PS file. But don't take my word that this is gospel since I've never
had to depend on this method of printing.  Ask somebody else to make sure.)

Warning: this font is as bold as it gets - if you select bold from the
font menu you will actually get a narrower "typeface" and I haven't had
the time to try out what outline and shadow will do.  But experimenting
will not hurt anything, so have some fun.  Also, I do not know exactly
what effect right AND left justification will do, but I'm sure it will
"leak" through the background between the characters so, either be prepared
to fill with white rectangles or just use justify left OR right.

I hope you like the idea of this font.  There will be others, same concept,
different design. Please send $25 and comments/suggestions (if any) for
the complete font and a license to use it.  (I will assume that if you
buy it, you like it, but that doesn't mean that it can't be better.)

As I stated before, this sample is free for distribution.  However, once
you buy the complete font it is not free for distribution.  (Why give such
a neat design tool away to the competition anyway, right?  Not everybody
telecommunicates.)  The complete font is also not for resale to anybody
without my consent (which can be bought for 50% of the sale price, by the
way as long as the font is sold for NO LESS THAN $25 - sell to two people
and you've made your money back, but I think if you really realize the
potential of what you have, you won't even tell anyone how you do that
LW magic.)  Furthermore, even though a typeface is not copyrightable, per
se, I do claim a copyright to the concept and execution of the special
effect of "Invisifonts" (I'm not sure I can really legally do this but
I'm going to try anyway.  I won't copy anybody elses special effect and
I hope others will respect mine in the same way).

My next release in the Designer Series planned will be a "straight" font
based (it won't be an exact replica) on the typeface Tiffany, (a really
classy font with nice serifs and very contrasting narrow and wide strokes),
and (of course) its Invisifont version.

                                                                                                                Hope to hear from you,

                                                                                                                                                                Butch