4 Nov
2011
4 Nov
'11
8:54 p.m.
On 4 Nov 2011 at 22:05, Toby Thain wrote:
Since we are talking about digital typesetting - the
famous digital
font creation system URW IKARUS ran on VAX gear - including 11/750*, I
believe. I don't have details handy (Wikipedia might) but I believe
this system was licensed to essentially all the major type foundries
(Letraset UK and ITC (US) were notable users). After the letterforms
were digitised from hand drawings (using a puck) they were used to
create analogue products such as dry transfer lettering and
photosetting masters, as well as a wide variety of digital vector and
bitmap formats (yes, digital typefaces have been around quite a long
time).
Does anyone have the encoding for Compugraphic typesetter files? I
imagine that it's related to the the various font carts were
organized. plus a bunch of kerning, etc. information. I've still got
some 8" floppy document samples where the alphabet is Hebrew.
Always wondered what those said..
--Chuck