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- From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
- Subject: Re: Calligraphy fonts
- Message-ID: <oneil.728005957@cwis>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <MAILQUEUE-101.930125141320.288@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:52:37 GMT
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- "Ronald Glatz" <GLATZ@EAEPS1.TUWIEN.AC.AT> writes:
-
- >> I don't recommend public domain fonts, mostly because I've had such terrible
- >> experience with them. They're usually of very inferior quality. I'd
- >> recommend you hop on down to your local computer software store and take a
- >> look at a few of the inexpensive Truetype collections. (Ie. the Microsoft
- >> Truetype Font Pack, Keyfonts, Typecase, Infinitype, etc. etc. etc.) You can
- >> get one of those for about thirty bucks or so and most have quite a few
- >> decent fonts. (Being a Font Junkie, myself, I have Typecase I, Typecase II
- >> and Keyfonts.) Advantages to these kinds of packages include the fact that
- >> you don't have to worry about missing characters -- they generally have the
- >> full ANSI set of characters. Also, they tend to look nicer when you print on
- >> paper.
- >>
- >> Sharon
- >> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
- >>
- >You're completely right about the quality of most PD fonts and it is
- >very annoying for me German speaking user not to get the complete
- >ANSI character set. But I must add that the quality of the low cost
- >Truetype fonts doesn't match the quality of professional Type 1
- >("Postscript") fonts.
-
- True. The Adobe fonts are still the highest quality fonts around. But
- they're also quite expensive. You can spend fifty to a hundred bucks on
- just *one* face. I figure, it pretty much depends on what you want the
- font for. And what you're using to print out the font with. And if you
- want to spend the bucks for a font engine. Remember, if you have Win 3.1,
- you get Truetype for free. Some folks don't want to fork out sixty bucks
- for ATM and fifty to a hundred bucks more for a typeface. Since the
- original poster was looking for free or cheap fonts, I suggested some
- relatively inexpensive packages.
-
- Sharon
- oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
-
-