17 May
2005
17 May
'05
5:26 p.m.
I need a font for Winders that looks like the outputfrom a chain printer
or common line printer.
Does anyone have anything like this?
Thanks!
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6:24 p.m.
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I found this one but it's not free:
http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=405925&ovmkt=JK0U0JDQ41GI…
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I need a font
for Winders that looks like the outputfrom a chain printer
or common line printer.
Does anyone have anything like this?
No, but I'd be interested in either an OpenType or Postscript font for the
Mac. :^) 
6:49 p.m.
I found this one but it's not free:
http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=405925&ovmkt=JK0U0JDQ41GI…
Ouch, anything but. IIRC, that's more expensive than your typical Adobe
OpenType font!
Here is a thought on finding fonts that might work good for you, take a
look at Fonts for "Pen & Paper" Role playing games. Especially games such
as "Delta Green" or "D20 Modern". At least I don't think you mind
True Type
fonts, which is what you'd most likely turn up.
Zane
7:09 p.m.
Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I found this one but it's not free:
http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=405925&ovmkt=JK0U0JDQ41GI…
I'm sure I have some chain-printer output from an IBM chain printer that
had a fairly new ribbon from when I worked at EDS... I saved most of my JCL
listings from my training there.
The chain printer I had access to may have been uppercase only, tho.
I can scan some in if anyone needs, but I know nothing about making
fonts... (and $42 for one typeface seems a *bit* excessive... 8-O )
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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I need a
font for Winders that looks like the outputfrom a chain printer
or common line printer.
Does anyone have anything like this?
No, but I'd be interested in either an OpenType or Postscript font for the
Mac. :^) 
8:11 p.m.
Is TrueType an open format at all?
I have been interested in building my own fonts for decades
at this point.
John A.
18 May
18 May
12:45 p.m.
John Allain wrote:
Is TrueType an open format at all?
I have been interested in building my own fonts for decades
at this point.
John A.
Sounds like you want something like
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
19 May
19 May
6:11 a.m.
On Wed, 18 May 2005 02:11:49 +0200, John Allain <allain at panix.com> wrote:
Is TrueType an open format at all?
I have been interested in building my own fonts for decades
at this point.
It is open in the sense that specifications to make a font or a font
renderer are openly available.
The easiest way to make fonts in either TT, PS or the new common superset
Open Type is to use Font Forge, a free font editor which is really good.
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/license.html
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18 May
18 May
4:05 a.m.
Hi,
Zane H. Healy said:
...and I'd like an IBM PC DOS font with all the graphics chars for the Mac.
I've got a cd somewhere with over 500 Mac fonts on it, but as to _where_ it
is... :-(
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
I need a font
for Winders that looks like the outputfrom a chain printer
or common line printer.
Does anyone have anything like this?
No, but I'd be interested in either an OpenType or Postscript font for the
Mac. :^) 
17 May
17 May
6:32 p.m.
At 04:26 PM 5/17/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I need a font for Winders that looks like the output
from a chain printer
or common line printer. Does anyone have anything like this?
Do you have a scanned example of a real-world output you'd like
to emulate? Are you hoping to emulate the perfect strike of the
band's font, or something that looks like that font when it's
printed on green-bar-y paper with a worn ribbon? Or do you mean
a dot-matrix? You don't have a spare line printer you can drive
directly from the Windows machine? :-)
For ASR-33, we've used "teleprinter" from http://hreflinks.com/fon4page.htm
but there are gobs of sorta-free fonts out there, of course.
- John
7:33 p.m.
Rumor has it that John Foust may have mentioned these words:
At 04:26 PM 5/17/2005, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
Linenstroke on page 3
http://hreflinks.com/fon3page.htm
might do, too.
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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I need a font for Winders that looks like the
output from a chain printer
or common line printer. Does anyone have anything like this?
Do you have a scanned example of a real-world output you'd like
to emulate? Are you hoping to emulate the perfect strike of the
band's font, or something that looks like that font when it's
printed on green-bar-y paper with a worn ribbon? Or do you mean
a dot-matrix? You don't have a spare line printer you can drive
directly from the Windows machine? :-)
For ASR-33, we've used "teleprinter" from http://hreflinks.com/fon4page.htm
but there are gobs of sorta-free fonts out there, of course. 
11:07 p.m.
quick google. How's teleprinter from:
http://www.fontfreak.com/fonts-t.htm
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