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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
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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.

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