Re: Cyrillic Font

[Robert Hemenway]

Dear Carl,

Robert Holmgren's last to me reminds me that the Adobe Cyrillic font (and any
other special fonts) won't give you a screen font. Adobe Type Manager (ATM) for
Windows does, I'm pretty sure, so that if you use XyW for Windows (when it
appears) the screen font can be generated. (See mine to Holmgren today for a
little more detail.)

You can install UltraVision, if you have a VGA monitor, and rewrite the screen
font using a program like CHET. If you use the Hercules Graphics Plus card and
a TTL monitor, you can get a program, FONTMAN, from Herc tech support that
works the same way. CHET and FONTMAN let you copy a range of screenfont bitmaps
from one range of ASCII slots (in the same screen font or a different one) to
another, rotate individual bitmaps, and flip them. So you can build most of the
Cyrillic characters fairly quickly from the Roman ones. Seem to be around 40
characters in Cyrillic, upper and lower case, that differ from the Roman.

Monotype (1-800-666-6897) has Times New Roman Cyrillic in PostScript for the
PC. It should be reasonably compatible with the Adobe Times in the standard
package, though widths will vary slightly. The Monotype Times New Roman is not
quite the same as Adobe's Times. FontHaus (1-800-942-9110) or Publisher's
Toolbox (1-800-233-3898) should carry. That might work better for you than the
Adobe Minion Cyrillic.

XyWrite is limited to Bitstream Speedo screen fonts in graphics mode but not in
draft mode, where with Ultravision software or the Herc Graphics Plus card you
can write your own. Regards, RH.