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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.
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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!