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- About IglooLaser... July 5, 1991
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- Welcome to IglooLaser, a novelty TrueType laser font that is compatible with
- Apple's new type format in System 7. The all-caps font contains all upper case
- characters of the alphabet, numerals and some punctuation. The individual
- characters are topped with freshly fallen snow the way it lays on evergreen
- branches. The font is best for display purposes in publications that have a
- special wintry theme.
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- IglooLaser started out life as a series of Macintosh characters that had been
- scanned out of a magazine by Allen Rothwell, a desktop publisher based in
- Baltimore (he's SultanJim on America Online). He uploaded the Adobe Illustrator
- PostScript files to my BBS here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota.
- I subsequently created a Macintosh Type 3 PostScript font using ArtImporter
- from Altsys. That font was uploaded to the Macintosh DTP/WP Forum on America
- Online where it was improved by William j. Krasovic (Kras) and picked up and
- redone as a Type 1 font by another user. It truly has been a group project.
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- With the spirit of a group effort in mind, I am now offering IglooLaser in this
- TrueType format. The font is free.
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- Follow the standard instructions for installing fonts in System 7 or use with
- System 6.07 by using the TrueType INIT.
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- Several software products were used during the course of this font's evolution.
- Mac versions of Adobe Illustrator, and Altsys' ArtImporter, Metamorphosis Pro
- and Fontographer 3.2 all were part of the process. The final conversion of
- IglooLaser to this TrueType format was done with Metamormophis Pro. A version
- of
- IglooLaser is also available in the ATM/Windows 3 version as IGLOOLAS.ZIP.
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- The DTP Exchange is a BBS system devoted to desktop publishing and graphics
- topics. There are two systems, one running on an IBM PC with a complete FidoNet
- conferencing setup, the second running on the Mac-based TeleFinder BBS graphic
- user interface (GUI). FidoNet conferences include the popular LaserPub,
- Ventura,
- EchoMac, MacDTP, GRAPHICS, PHOTO and also a new DTP- oriented network called
- PubNet which offers about a dozen conferences on DTP topics including
- PageMaker,
- Quark and Corel.
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- DTP Exchange I (612) 636-7580, PEP, V.32, V.42, V.42bis, 2400/1200
- DTP Exchange II (612) 633-8406, 9600 V.32, V.42, V.42bis, 2400/1200
- (NOTE: Line II is Mac-only, using dedicated software. Call to DL
- TeleFinder/User sw)
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- More than 300 PD/shareware laser fonts are available on DTP Exchange, with the
- collection growing larger each week. Also available is a large collection of
- both Mac and PC DTP utilities.
- Subscription fee: $20 per year or $30 for both systems.
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- -- Chuck Bjorgen, SysOp, DTP Exchange BBS
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- The Font file names associated with this information file are:
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- IGLOOLASER I0001054.TTF