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- FontMonger™ Released|Ares Software Corp.
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- Contact: Russell F. McCann, Jr.
- Ares Software Corporation
- P.O. Box 4667
- Foster City, Calif. 94404
- Telephone: (415) 578-9090
- AppleLink: D3829
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- Foster City--April 8, 1991—-Ares Software Corporation™ has shipped
- FontMonger™, a type conversion and modification product for the Apple
- Macintosh. FontMonger’s retail price is $99.95.
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- FontMonger is a simple-to-use application that provides type format
- conversion in any direction among PostScript® Type 1 fonts, PostScript Type 3
- fonts and TrueType™ fonts. FontMonger contains proprietary hinting algorithms
- which are applied during the conversion process. This provides “the
- highest-quality screen and printer characters for each type format,” stated
- Ernie Brock, Vice President of Ares Software Corporation. “These algorithms
- have been under development for two years.”
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- FontMonger contains a range of unique type transformation capabilities.
- Characters from various typefaces can be combined into a single font. This
- provides immediate access to widely-used characters directly from the keyboard.
- Small cap and oblique typefaces can be created from an existing typeface by
- applying new height/width proportions or slant transformations.
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- “FontMonger solves all font format conversion problems and provides an
- immediate way of using Apple’s new TrueType technology,” stated Tom Santos,
- Founder of MacAdam, a San Francisco-based Macintosh dealer. “We expect
- FontMonger to be one of the hottest selling products of the year,” he added.
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- Founded in 1990, Ares Software Corporation develops and markets a new
- generation of low-cost graphics products for the Apple Macintosh. The company
- is a pioneer in the advanced application of PostScript and TrueType font
- technologies.
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- This information is provided to the Apple Developer Group by the product's
- developer. Apple cannot warrant any third party's product. Please consult the
- Apple Products & Ref Library, MENU/Software Library, or Redgate Buyer's Guide
- Library on AppleLink, or contact the third-party company directly for more
- information.
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