RE: speedos supplemental printer fonts

["M. W. Poirier" Poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

-----Original Message-----
From:	M. W. Poirier [SMTP:Poirmw@xxxxxxxx]
Sent:	January 23, 2004 8:39 AM
To:	'xywrite@xxxxxxxx'
Subject:	RE: speedos supplemental printer fonts



   I apologize for sending this message to the list, and, in addition, for truncating
   the question it posed. It was meant to be an off list question to Manuel
   Castelao, asking him if the Speedo fonts he refers to below can be used
   with XY4.

   M.W. Poirier

-----Original Message-----
From:	M.C. [SMTP:fenda@xxxxxxxx]
Sent:	January 22, 2004 2:36 PM
To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: speedos supplemental printer fonts

Bill Troop wrote:
>
> Manuel, as far as I know, the Bitstream free distribution of Charter is
> in Postscript and TT format only. As it's a very nice font, perhaps we
> can persuade them to make a Speedo distribution as well. It would all
> depend on how hard it would be for them to generate a Speedo font from
> their mother data, which is all in Ikarus format (the highest resolution
> of all font formats). It may be as simple as pressing a button, or it
> may not. There is also the problem that Speedo fonts are supposed to
> have large character sets, and Bitstream may not have that data for
> everything that one might request.

Bill,
See, for example, this link:
http://storage.atari-source.com/atari/mirrors/ftp.lip6.fr/pub/atari/Text/speedo.tgz
This file includes Courier and Charter, very common in Linux
distributions. For example, perform a search for "XFree86-fonts-speedo"
and you will find packages that contain contain Speedo fonts.
Best regards,
Manuel Castelao