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- THIS FONT WAS MADE FOR PRINTING AND MAY NOT LOOK ITS BEST ON SCREEN!!
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- IT IS A DETAILED SET OF MODERN PASSENGER TRAIN SILHOUETTES
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- IF YOU LIKE THIS FONT THEN PLEASE SUPPORT IT BY PAYING THE SHAREWARE FEE
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- 9/2/94
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- ABOUT MODERN PASSENGER FONT:
- This font is a virtual railroad for your printer. YOU WILL NEED A
- HIGH RESOLUTION PRINTER TO TRULY APPRECIATE THIS FONT. The screen bit map
- isn't the best , but load up the PostScript and PRINT OUT A COPY OF
- "MP_MAP.WRI" to see all the living detail in full heart stopping color (well,
-
- I get carried away, but you get the idea). Now you can add the finest
- passenger trains to your documents.
-
- There were a few holes in the passenger train font. I liked the
- font, but I felt that there was something lacking the day that I released it.
-
- I wanted to include modern passenger train equipment. Since most of the
- trains I see are in the west, when I think of Amtrak, I think of Superliner
- cars. Thus, most of this font is devoted to Superliner cars. I also tossed
- in a couple of odds and ends that didn't make it into the passenger font and
- aren't really modern passenger equipment, but.... Maybe you won't notice the
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- fact that the RDC's and the commuter cars have been around for over thirty
- years and are not too modern. I was tossing around the idea of including the
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- X-2000 and the ICE, but those trains just seemed so dated. I might do a high
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- speed rail font if I am not sick to death of trains after I do all of the
- other fonts I am talking about, we will have to wait and see.
- There are four different locomotives, two commuter cars, three RDC's
- and eight passenger cars. Each locomotive and car is assigned to a different
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- key. For each locomotive, lower case corresponds to facing leftward and
- upper case corresponds to facing rightward. For the rest of the cars, lower
- and upper case characters will be opposite sides of the same car, but there
- is no real distinction between forward and backward. In some cases, it is a
- small distinction between left and right, but, it is included for
- completeness. After loading the font, you should print out a copy of
- "MP_MAP.WRI" for a sample of the font and to see which characters map to
- which keys.
- My logic for assigning the characters was to put the locomotives in
- the upper left corner of the keyboard. I put the Superliner cars and other
- equipment that you would find in a typical Amtrak train along the middle row,
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- a-k. In the lower left, I put the RDC's. The commuter cars are in the upper
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- right.
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- IN THE EVENT YOU ARE UNABLE TO OPEN THE MAP FILE, THIS FONT USES THE
- FOLLOWING KEYS FOR VARIOUS LOCOMOTIVES AND CARS:
- q, Q, w, W, e, E, r, R, a, A, s, S, d, D, f, F, g, G, h, H, j, J, k, K, o, O,
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- p, P, z, Z, x, X, c, C
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- GENERIC README (Similar in all of my fonts):
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- IMPORTANT STUFF:
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- SOME CHARACTERS MAY BE TOO DETAILED TO SHOW ON THE SCREEN and will appear as
- empty boxes. They should print okay though.
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- DO NOT INSTALL THE POST SCRIPT and TRUE TYPE VERSIONS AT THE SAME TIME
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- THE TRUE TYPE FONT MAY NOT WORK ON ALL SYSTEMS, THE POST SCRIPT FONT IS
- PREFERED.
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- 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
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- DOS users as much as my time will permit. Let me know what you want or need
- and we'll work something out.
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- TRUE TYPE VS. POST SCRIPT:
- On some machines, not all characters of the True Type font will be
- visible. Please don't lose heart, they are there and should print okay, it
- is just the fact that there are so many points in the character that windows
- decided you don't really need to see it. I will try to fix this in later
- versions. If the True Type font gives you problems, try the Post Script
- version, it seems to be a little more stable. Note that the contents of both
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- fonts are the same.
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- HOW TO INSTALL THE POST SCRIPT TRAIN FONT ONTO YOUR SYSTEM:
- You will need WINDOWS 3.0 or later and the ADOBE TYPE MANAGER (ATM)
- version 2.0 or later.
- 1) Start the ATM control panel by double clicking on it.
- 2) Click the Add button
- 3) Locate the drive/directory containing your fonts using the scroll bars
- 4) Double click on the drive/directory to show the names of the fonts on the
- disk
- 5) Select the fonts to install
- 6) Click the Add button
- 7) Exit ATM (you may have to restart windows to use the fonts, depending on
- the version of ATM you have)
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- IF YOU HAVE TROUBLES installing this font or it doesn't seem to print
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- out correctly, PLEASE LET ME KNOW as soon as possible. I can either give you
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- 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 US $10 "shareware" fee to myself. (see accompanying "the
- ModPassenger story" for why) at the address below. Please include a brief
- note describing where you got this font, what you like about it, and what you
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- would like to see added to it.
- If you just have to have the full collection of my train fonts (see
- "the whole story"), send a FORMATTED 3.5" HD disk (I don't know if they will
- 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
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- 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.
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- -You may NOT use this font, ModPassenger Font, in any publication or any
- product unless you register your copy of ModPassenger Font by sending $10 FOR
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- 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)
-
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- WHY SHOULD YOU SEND IN THE SHAREWARE FEE?
- Well, I am releasing this font in it's entirety. I put a lot of hard
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- work into this font. I have also gotten a lot of pleasure from it. Ignoring
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- BENEFITS OF PAYING THE SHAREWARE FEE:
- Enough of what shareware fees do for me, what will they do for you!?
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- 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.
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- GIVE IT TO YOUR FRIENDS, MODPASSENGER FONT MAKES A GREAT BIRTHDAY GIFT
- (GRIN):
- You are free to distribute this font, as long as you include all 7 of
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- the files that it came with. I.e.:
- "CONTENTS.TXT", "README.WRI", "README.TXT", "MP_MAP.WRI", "RRMODPAS.PFB",
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- "RRMODPAS.PFM", and "RRMODPAS.TTF "
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- 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
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- a modern day passenger train (i.e. Amtrak).
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- 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.
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- RailHeralds- a picture font containing a collection of high resolution (I use
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- that phrase a lot) rail heralds.
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- Rail Icons- Mac only- approximately 60 rail related icons (locomotives, cars
- and heralds).
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- 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
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- fill the disk up and return it.
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-
- COMING SOON:
- Zephyr, Steam Engines, Modern Freight, Milwaukee Passenger, Mass
- Transit, and many more.
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- 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
- USA
-
- --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
-
- Modern Passenger font, all of its accompanying files and train icon
- are copy right 1994, Benn Coifman. (that looks so nasty now that I typed it)
-
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- REVISIONS:
- 1.0 The original
- 1.1 Revised address
- 2.0 FIXED a compatibility problem- some printers would not recognize my
- fonts as being different entities, now you should not see any conflicts
- between fonts. Added the IBM version. Cleaned up all of the characters.
- You shouldn't see any change, but your printer should.
-