Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax.uncecs.edu!ruslan From: ruslan@uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Russian language text packages. Summary: Calligrapher does well Keywords: Russian Message-ID: <1989Sep25.191456.25465@uncecs.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 19:14:56 GMT References: <2578@rayssdb.ray.com> <4187@wpi.wpi.edu> <4203@wpi.wpi.edu> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 45 In article <4203@wpi.wpi.edu>, jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) writes: > > Was slavicfont your work? It's the best collection of Cyrillic fonts I've > seen for the Amiga... I have a few small 8-12 pt fonts I've done, but nothing > to compare with this. Does anyone out there know of a good font creator that > works well with fonts sizes over 40 point? > -- Thank you, thank you. Yes, they're more or less my work, though I started with some Mac fonts (converted with Rico Mariani's converter, also in the Fish collection) after I got permissions from the authors. I was highly motivated, since I need them for my Russian lit thesis, and the grad school here is persnickety about fonts (absolutely NO jaggies, or their smoothed "wavy" equivalents.) Calligrapher is what I used to make them. It works up to 160pts, and is fine as long as you have memory for it (running it in less than 1 meg has been done, but I can't vouch for effectiveness at that level.) I stuck mainly to B & W regular Cyrillic fonts (including non-Russian Cyrillic in some of them,) but you can easily get silly and with a command or two make the whole set screaming neon shades of blue - it's the original program for ColorFonts, due to receive support in 1.4 I believe. As for where to use them, I use them in ProWrite, then crank them through ProScript (turns the files into PostScript) then onto my DeskJet with PixelScript (squirts PostScript files onto a preferences printer.) Anyway, a word of warning - someone mentioned excellence! as a program that could handle multiple fonts, but be aware that it CANNOT use the full KEYMAPS. It becomes an issue for Cyrillic, where you really do want those alt key characters. The support folks for excellence! were not at all helpful, either - again, a major difference from the courtesy and help I've gotten from New Horizons (makers of ProWrite.) I haven't used Pen Pal, though, so I don't know how it does for fonts and keymaps. Disclaimer: just a customer of these guys, and a font fanatic. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=- Robin LaPasha |Deep-Six your ruslan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu |files with VI! ;^) ;^) ;^)