Subject: Fw: New free Type1 fonts
From: Birger Langkjer (birger.langkjer@image.dk)
Date: Fri Dec 17 1999 - 17:33:48 CST
The fonts in AbiWord will be extended to cover Baltic, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, and Polish apparently. More info at
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/ps3sdk/psdocs.html
No Cyrillic or Greek unfortunately as far as I can see.
Den tor, 16 dec 1999 18:45:23 Markus Kuhn skrev:
> Here a very interesting bit of news:
>
> L. Peter Deutsch <ghost@aladdin.com>:
> > As it happens, I have some further good news. URW++ has just agreed to
> > upgrade the 35 free fonts to include the full 315-character Adobe PostScript
> > 3 set, which includes a few new symbols and a multitude of new accented
> > characters for Eastern European languages. The fonts will almost certainly
> > be ready for distribution with Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0, which is likely to
> > be released between Christmas and New Year's.
>
> Does anyone know, where I can get a list of this "315-character Adobe
> PostScript 3 set", because I'd like to verify, whether we have covered
> it completely in the -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 fonts.
>
> With these extended fonts available in ghostscript, updating a2ps and
> other Unix PostScript printer drivers to handle UTF-8 will become even
> more interesting!
>
> Markus
>
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> Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
> Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Med venlig hilsen/Best regards
Birger Langkjer
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