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                     *  CALAMUS FONT CONVERSIONS  *
                     *           by JFW           *
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   This disc is one of a series of 20 converted font discs that will 
be available from the Floppyshop PD Library in December 1996 to February 
    1997. More discs will be added later (just as soon as my STe has 
       had a chance to cool down from all the batch conversions.)

           But in the mean time, if you'd like to talk about
    Calamus, fonts, graphic design or typography, then why not drop
           me a line at the address at the end of this file?


                                                         JFW, 23/12/96


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One of the few problems with Calamus is its lack of reasonably priced 
fonts. There's plenty of PD fonts, agreed, but many of them are badly-
drawn and of poor quality. There's an abundance of commercial fonts, but 
at a price, and what a price! Here's a few examples from DMC's 1989 
price list:

Antique Olive (5 fonts in different weights and styles): $99.95

Compugraphic Omega (an Optima clone, 3 fonts): $99.95

Souvenir Gothic (2 fonts): $79.95

And that's why I was so pleased to receive 20 discs of Postscript Type 1 
fonts earlier this year; high quality PD fonts that were ripe for 
conversion. And not just any old fonts - the scrapings of the 
imaginative barrel - how about Bembo, or Perpetua, Optima perhaps, or 
Korinna? Not in the odd weights that you normally see, but as useable 
families: Normal, Normal Italic, Bold and Bold Italic.

I wiped the tears from my eyes and reached for my font convertor.


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>>> Most of the fonts on this disc were converted from Postscript Type 
1's to Calamus format with Matthew Carey's superb 'Fonty' programme. The 
spacing was set at 05/256, and they were then kerned at 05 on either 
side. (But not invariably - some of the fonts in this series have very 
different settings.)

>>> This is the second part of the collection to appear in the 
Floppyshop catalogue, and some of the fonts on these last eight discs 
are Calamus originals bought from other PD libraries. You may have seen 
some of them before, but a good 50% of these fonts (Modern Display 
Faces, Old Display Faces, and Scripts) are new to Calamus. 

>>> The confusion comes from trying to organise a collection of more 
than 500 fonts - occupying nearly 20 meg on my hard drive - while still 
keeping track of which ones are conversions, which ones need kerning, 
and which ones have altered for a specific job.

>>> The Postscript originals came from the 16/32 Library and are, as far 
as I know, free of copyright and entirely in the public domain. I'd be 
grateful if you could let me know of any fonts included here which may 
be subject to copyright.

>>> The fonts have been renamed from their original, cryptic, filenames, 
and the following convention has been used for weights and styles:

L = Light, N = Normal, M = Medium, B = Bold, XB = Extra Bold.

I = Italic, C = Condensed, E = Extended, etc.



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      John Weller, Flat 1, 28 Victoria Road, Bournemouth, BH1 4RR 

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