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- From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
- Subject: Re: 2 questions about fonts
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <1992Sep12.015127.7421@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:32:03 GMT
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- mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
-
- >(1) Where can I get a TrueType font for Cyrillic (Russian)?
-
- >(2) What do I need to do to create my own TrueType fonts
- > (or convert some other widely recognized kind into TrueType)?
-
- Well, I know I saw an ad in an old PC Computing that had Cyrillic and other
- exotic typefaces and I thought they were truetype, but they're Postscript.
- The name of the company is Worldfont for Windows at 1-800-223-0123. I
- have absolutely NO connection with this company whatsoever. But at least
- you might find what you're looking for. It says nothing about how much
- they charge for their fonts. I know that in the last Adobe ad I got in the
- mail, they had Cyrillic as well. So you might look into that. Again, I
- have no connection with Adobe either.
-
- To answer your second question -- there's a couple programs that will do
- what you want. I haven't bought or used either, but they're called
- Alltype and Fontmonger. The reviews I've read have been critical of
- Alltype and more favorable for Fontmonger, but I guess it really depends
- upon what you're planning to use the fonts for. When you convert a font
- from one kind into another, you do lose some of the quality of the font.
- (Although, from what I understand, public domain fonts sometimes come
- through the conversion better than before because some conversion programs
- actually /add/ hinting to the font.)
-
- Sharon O'Neil
- oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
-
-