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- IF YOU LIKE THIS FONT THEN PLEASE SUPPORT IT BY PAYING THE
- SHAREWARE FEE
-
-
-
- 9/9/94
-
- ABOUT EMPIRE BUILDER 1.0 FONT:
- This font was inspired by the lettering used by the Great Northern
- Railway on their passenger trains from the late 40's through the mid
- 60's. Looking at this typeface, it is hard to believe that it is at
- least 50 years old. The Great Northern Pictorial Volume 3, by John F.
- Strauss, Jr., was a great source of photographs to work from.
- After loading up the True Type file, print out a copy of
- "EB_MAP.DOC" for a quick overview of the font. There are two special
- keys that I have been having trouble translating over from the Mac, so I
- decided not to document them in the "MAP" file, but I will mention them
- here in case you feel like messing with them. This may or may not work
- for you, be warned that I got it to work on screen but not on the
- printer: "<" = 1/4th space, ">" = 3/4th space.
-
- WHAT IS THAT TRAIN DOING ON THE "MAP" SHEET?
- That is a sample from RailPassenger. The true type hinting may mess
- these characters up on some printers, but the post script version of
- RailFreight works fine. I wanted to put in a couple of toys for those
- of you who don't have my whole font collection.
-
-
- GENERIC README (Similar in all of my fonts):
-
- IMPORTANT STUFF:
-
- SOME CHARACTERS MAY BE TOO DETAILED TO SHOW ON THE SCREEN and will
- appear as empty boxes. They should print okay though.
-
- DO NOT INSTALL THE POST SCRIPT and TRUE TYPE VERSIONS AT THE SAME TIME
-
- THE TRUE TYPE FONT MAY NOT WORK ON ALL SYSTEMS, THE POST SCRIPT FONT IS
- PREFERED.
-
-
- ABOUT THE IBM VERSIONS:
- Yeah, I am a Mac head. I am slowly learning all I can about the
- IBM systems. I am also enlisting the help of my IBM friends as
- "consultants". This might be a bumpy road at first, but these fonts are
- pretty neat and they are worth the trek. From my end, I am more than
- willing to work with you to get the fonts to work on your machine. On
- your end, I ask for patience if they don't work on the first try.
- Please let me know ASAP if you are having any problems. I am willing to
- do minor changes or generate bit map files for DOS users as much as my
- time will permit. Let me know what you want or need and we'll work
- something out.
-
- HOW TO INSTALL THE TRAIN FONT ONTO YOUR SYSTEM:
- You will need Windows 3.1 or later for this True Type font.
- 1) Double click on the Windows control panel to open it.
- 2) Open the fonts panel
- 3) Select Add
- 4) Choose the drive from the list
- 5) Choose the directory from the directory list
- 6) Select the fonts you want to install from the list of fonts
- 7) Select "OK" ton install
-
-
- IF YOU HAVE TROUBLES installing this font or it doesn't seem to
- print out correctly, PLEASE LET ME KNOW as soon as possible. I can
- either give you more specific instillation information or go and fix the
- bug. (e-mail is great for this, but snail mail works fine too)
-
-
- NOW FOR THE "ASKING FOR MONEY" BIT, AKA, THIS IS SHAREWARE:
- You are free to use (play with, throw at the cat, etc.) this font
- for one week after receiving it. If you like it and decide to keep it,
- you should send a $10 "shareware" fee to myself, at the address below.
- Please include a brief note describing where you got this font, what you
- like about it, and what you would like to see added to it.
- If you just have to have the full collection of my train fonts,
- send a FORMATTED 3.5" HD disk (they won't fit on an 800k disk any more)
- and a SELF ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE to the address below. (I hate to
- format disks and you will be sure to get the right machine, Mac or IBM,
- this way)
- I do not want to send any of my customers into bankruptcy, if you
- are honestly poor, (i.e., you ain't gonna support the American way and
- my education) please send a post card (the weirder the better)
- describing where you got this font, what you like about it and what you
- would like to see added to it.
-
-
- THE FINE PRINT:
- -Each font or icon package is an individual product. Thus, if you keep
- Passenger Font and Freight Font, you should pay $20, not $10.
-
- -You may NOT use this font, EmpireBuilder Font, in any publication or
- any product unless you register your copy of EmpireBuilder Font by
- sending
- $10 FOR EACH FONT YOU USE. Be sure to specify which fonts you are
- registering for. It is not fair for you to make money off of my hard
- work
- without paying the Shareware fees.
-
- -I would love a copy of any publication or product that incorporates my
- fonts.
-
- -You may distribute this font for free, however, you may not sell this
- font or include it in any package for sale without the written
- permission
- of myself, Benn Coifman. I am very agreeable to CD ROM's and shareware
- packages for sale, however, I do want to retain some degree of control
- over my work. So, please contact me first. (note, this clause does NOT
- apply to dial up services like Compuserve, America On Line and bulletin
- boards that charge by the unit of time. Theses services may list my
- products without contacting me)
-
-
- WHY SHOULD YOU SEND IN THE SHAREWARE FEE?
- Well, I am releasing this font in it's entirety. I put a lot of
- hard work into this font. I have also gotten a lot of pleasure from it.
- Ignoring all of the capitalistic angles, your shareware dollar will
- speed up the development of new train fonts and help me afford new font
- tools. My goal is to at least break even.
- Only 17 people have registered my shareware products since I first
- released them six months ago. There are a lot of expenses that go into
- these fonts. My font editor cost almost $300. Then there are the
- little expenses like ink cartridges (you wouldn't believe how many ink
- cartridges I go through) and paying for a mail box. Oy! And you want
- to talk about memory... 30 Meg of hard disk devoted to fonts and icon
- development.
-
-
- BENEFITS OF PAYING THE SHAREWARE FEE:
- Enough of what shareware fees do for me, what will they do for
- you!? I will spend less time on school and more time on producing
- shareware. You will also be entitled to a peek into things to come. If
- you send a disk along with your payment, I will give the Demo font that
- includes all of the odd characters that haven't quite found a home yet
- (including a number of steam engines!). In addition, I will rush you
- out the most recent versions of my fonts and icons.
-
-
- GIVE IT TO YOUR FRIENDS, EMPIRE BUILDER FONT MAKES A GREAT BIRTHDAY GIFT
- (GRIN):
- You are free to distribute this font, as long as you include all 5
- of the files that it came with. I.e.:
- "CONTENTS.TXT", "README.WRI", "README.TXT", "EB_MAP.WRI", and
- "EMP_BLDR.TTF"
-
-
- NOW SHOWING: (i.e., other great shareware products to look for)
- -available for the MAC or IBM unless noted-
-
- RailPassenger- a high resolution picture font that allows you to couple
- together a passenger train ca. 1950.
- RailFreight- a high resolution picture font that allows you to couple
- together a freight train ca. 1960.
- RailModPax- a high resolution picture font that allows you to couple
- together a modern day passenger train (i.e. Amtrak).
-
- RailroadRoman- a high quality roman font in the style of hand lettering
- on railroad cars ca. 1900.
- EmpireBuilder- styled after the typeface used by Great Northern on their
- passenger trains ca. 1950.
- AlphabetTrain- RailroadRoman meets RailFreight, i.e. letters on flat
- cars, good for titles and page numbers.
-
- RailHeralds- a picture font containing a collection of high resolution
- (I use that phrase a lot) rail heralds.
-
- Rail Icons- Mac only- approximately 60 rail related icons (locomotives,
- cars and heralds).
-
- Look for them on the net, Compuserve, your favorite bulletin
- board, or send me a FORMATTED 3.5" disk and a SELF ADDRESSED STAMPED
- ENVELOPE. I'll fill the disk up and return it.
-
-
- COMING SOON:
- Zephyr, Steam Engines, Modern Freight, Milwaukee Passenger, Mass
- Transit, and many more.
-
-
- YOU WANT YOUR CAR (OR DREAM CAR), LOGO OR HERALD ON YOUR KEYBOARD?
- I am willing to do custom work, as my time allows, at reasonable rates.
-
-
- Benn Coifman
- ASUC Box 624 # 4510,
- Telegraph & Bancroft
- Berkeley, CA 94720-4510
-
- --Please include your e-mail address with all correspondence--
- (very handy for notifying you of new releases)
-
- zephyr@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
- zephyr@uclink.berkeley.edu
-
- Empire Builder font, all of its accompanying files and train icon
- are c1994 Benn Coifman. (that looks so nasty now that I typed it)
-
-
- REVISIONS:
- 1.0 The original
-