NewCompact (for the lack of a better name) is a professional quality postscript font consisting of an abbreviated character set of (alpha numerics and most common English punctuation, 94 characters total).
As a freelance Mac based artist/designer, I originally created NewCompact (1) due to frustration with the lack of character spacing control in earlier versions of pagemaker, not to speak of draw programs (2) an appreciation of tightly spaced headlines and text and (3) need of a font with a high character per pica count. Placed in service nearly a year, I've had no problems and no complaints from client or service bureau. High legibility and good color even in text sizes when used sensibly
Success doesn't come cheap…40 hours minimum of creation including the awesome task of reconciling character offset to kerned pairs. There are 49 kerned pairs. With nearly 9000 possible pairs, I may have missed a few.
What's Included?
"NewCom" -the printer component.
"NewCompact" -the screen font component-72pt. (Yea, I know what your thinking, if this guy can make a large screen font why can't Adobe do it?)
"NewCompactReadMeFirst"- what you're reading now.
Print something?
Drag the printer component to the system folder (don't rename this file), install the screen font and fire up that masterpiece of PostScript compatible programming…Aldus, Adobe, Quark, ect…
The proof's in the printing.
There you have it.
What's the catch?
Try it for 30 days, if you find it useful send (1) SE30 or $10.00 to
David C. Saunders, PO Box 63, Pleasant Garden, NC 27313 to receive a user license and oblique and extended versions by return mail. That's 4 fonts in all in a variety of screen sizes.
If you are a fellow Fontographer user (2.4.1 or higher) send (1) IICX or $30.00 and receive a dupe of the original outline file and make your own.
What's not included.
No assumption of liability of any kind, for any reason…Use at your own risk.
No license for commercial use. (Commercial use license offered with receipt of shareware payment.)
This is a test.
I all goes well, there will be additional fonts offered. Remember, I make money the old fashioned way.
Permission is granted to upload these files to other bulletin boards provided all three files are included without alteration.
