Architect is a font that I whipped out over a weekend. It simulates hand printing of the type typically done by architects. It was inspired by Adobe's new font Tekton (TM). It has a full set of letters, numbers, and puctuation, and quite a few extra characters. I am interested in comments about this font. You may contact me at my Compuserve address of 73627,3612 or at my mail address:
Hank Gillette
432 Tyrella Ave
Mt. View, CA 94043
Architect is free. If you send me money anyway, I won't give it back. If enough people send money, I'll probably go out and buy a copy of the real Tekton (TM). (I don't think I have to worry about that.) You may freely give away this font to your friends or upload it to your favorite bulletin board. Please keep this text file with it if you do distribute it. If you are a commercial enterprise selling disks of shareware and freeware, you may not distribute this font without my permission. If you sell it, you should send the money to me.
Architect was generated with Metamorphosis Professional 2.0 from an original file made with Fontographer 3.2 and is offered as is. To the best of my knowlege, it will work with any TrueType System, including System 6.0.7 with the TrueType INIT. It is also provided in a PC format for those who have Windows 3.1 or later. I will not accept responsibility if it doesn't work for you or if you use it in an important report and your boss hates it and fires you. So, beware!
Installation Instructions For Novices
If you’ve never installed a TrueType font before, don’t worry, it’s pretty easy. You do have the TrueType INIT installed or are running System 7, aren’t you? Ok, then all you have to do is one thing.
1. Install the Architect.suit file into your System file, using Apple’s Font/DA mover version 4.1 or later (beta versions of 3.9 seem to work OK also). If this doesn’t make any sense to you, then you are either a beginner or Dan Quayle. In either case you should read the documentation that came with your TrueType INIT, concentrating on the stuff about installing fonts and the Font/DA mover. If you’re running System 7, just drag the Architect.suit file into your System file. If you have Suitcase II 1.2.9 or MasterJuggler 1.5, install Architect.suit using the appropriate normal method for installing a bitmap font. If you’re running System 7, make sure you have Suitcase II 1.2.9 or later.
That’s it. You’re ready to use Architect in your favorite word processor, drawing program, or other program that uses fonts. (If you are using Microsoft Word™ 3.0x or earlier, you will have to do some additional things to get Architect to appear in the FONT menu; consult your documentation.) Be advised that your output will look much better that it does on screen; I didn’t bother doing much editing of the screen fonts. Even though there are only two sizes of screen fonts, you can print Architect out at any size that your software supports.
If you have Suitcase II™ or Master Juggler™, you probably aren’t really a novice, but just in case - all you have to do is make sure the Architect.suit file is properly opened by one or the other of these programs. If you don’t have either of these programs and use a lot of fonts or DAs then you should have one of them. I have Suitcase II™ and recommend it highly, but I’m given to understand that Master Juggler™ is just as good - indeed, some people prefer it. However, if you use CompuServe, you can contact Steve Brecher (the author or Suitcase II) at any time.
Installation Instructions for Everyone Else
Hey, you already know to install a bitmap font, right? A TrueType font is exactly like a bitmap font from an installation point of view. What can I tell you that you don’t already know? Get out of here.
Installation Instructions for People Who Have Friends With PCs
Your friend must have Windows 3.1 installed. If so, he/she probably knows how to install a TrueType font. You can copy the AR______.TTF file to a PC disk using the default transfer to MSDOS in Apple File Exchange. Give your friend the disk and wish him/her good luck.
