Enclosed you will find the necessary files to use GriffinDingbats, a Type 1, ATM-compatible PostScript font. The font contains about 155 picture characters and a rather ornate Gothic drop caps font. The picture images range from Art Nouveau printer ornaments, Renaissance printer ornaments and woodcut printer ornaments to smiling, walking vegetables; the drop caps letters are based on a Gothic typeface called Celebration. An IBM PC version will soon be available and will be uploaded to Compuserve. A TrueType version is also available.
GriffinDingbats installs like any other PostScript font. CAVEAT: this is a very large font that could cause trouble to users of PostScript printers with less than 2MB of memory or to users of Adobe Type Manager with small font caches; in fact, on my computer, certain characters display as blanks when ATM is used and a non-installed bitmap size is called for; they do, however, print just fine (my font cache is set at 256K). If you have problems with this font, there IS a version broken up into smaller pieces which should alleviate those problems. Find this font on GEnie or Compuserve.
The font characters should be self-explanatory. Repeating characters and borders will be found everywhere; certain woodcut characters and ornaments have a deliberately rough quality to them, in order to preserve their original printed character. The ornament under option-period will need to be printed at a size exceeding 72 points, at 300 dpi, in order to have the intended white-on-black effect.
Please make your check payable to Griffin Music Ensemble and mail it to Griffin Music Ensemble, 19 Chestnut Terrace, Newton Centre, MA 01259.
You may make copies of GriffinDingbats for personal use and you may give copies away, providing no money changes hands and providing all the files in this archive are included, including the file you are reading. User groups and other nonprofit organizations may also distribute this font on disks for which they charge money, with the same conditions. Even commercial organizations that sell shareware disks may sell disks containing this font, providing the profit is not excessive and providing the obnoxious “Paying for this disk doesn’t mean you’ve paid for the software on it” message appears on the disk label containing this software and providing the previously mentioned conditions are met.
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