Funny you should mention one of Hoefler's designs, he was a young buddy of mine during the NYMUG days. I don't recall if he was a member or if I just knew him from the Service Bureau/Reseller where he worked. MPC was the hottest Mac dealership in the BBA at the time, TechServe was just beginning to make the transition into becoming a serious VAR back then. IIRC, I met Jonathan Hoefler through MPC's owner, who'd become a friend after I made the signs for MPC when it opened. I'm really glad to see that he became so successful, I lost track of Jonathan when he went full time at his passion, becoming a Type Designer. I started to sink into hermit mode in the mid-nineties and lost track with almost all my MacFriends during the fall of MPC, the rise of TekServe and the saddening disintegration of NYMUG (and UGs in general) as the WWW started to become synonymous with the InterNet.
Short answer:
I'm pretty sure you're a lot better off using PostScript.
Interminable version:
I can't tell you much about TrueType fonts, I never had any real need to use them. Somehow, almost the entire Adobe Type Library wound up in my grubby little paws. [}
] ]'> I did all my design work in Illustrator and Freehand on the Mac and in Corel Draw under WIN 3.0 at first, and then on the Mac when it went cross-platform. CorelDraw's "readable PostScript" font import feature was for Type 3, as was their massive (fontripped) bundled type library, IIRC.
FontRipping was a competitive sport in the early days of DTP, Graphic Design and vector art based Sign Making:
How many do you have? Which ones have you got? I've got these, how about trading . . .
. . . just like Baseball Cards and Bubble Gum when I was a schoolkid in the early Sixties.
Stream of deleriousness . . .
I never actually got into that scene, my daddy gave me a funny look when I got off the bus one day and showed him the "great" cards an older kid had sold me. He'd been recruited by IBM as a Systems Analyst and after that experience, I went back to spending my time building model planes, drawing WWII dogfight scenes, intently studying the VLSI textbooks scattered around the house as Artwork and, unfortunately, remaining blind to presence of Cobol, Pascal and Machine Level Programming Texts with which they were mixed. The chunk of CORE memory daddy used as a paperweight was a pretty neat sculpture too!
My brothers and sisters and I read the World Book Encyclopedia and all its updates cover-to-cover laying on the floor while watching what was pretty darn good programming on the three channels available back then.
How times have changed! Now you can hardly buy an Encyclopedia for home use. WiKiPedia and other online articles let anybody with just enough intelligence to open up an article and click or tap a pointing device rate the usefulness a/o accuracy of the WWW substitutes for, carefully compiled and edited, second source information. I hope I'm wrong, but most schoolkids never seem to crack a book to discover first source information from what I've seen. It was a huge deal in my family when we brought a new volume of the Golden Book Encyclopedia, Golden Book Illustrated Dictionary and Golden Book Picture Atlas of the World series home from the grocery store to devour along with the vittles every week.
Having cut our teeth on the Golden Book Series, it was a HUGE deal, to myself and the older of my five younger siblings, when the World Book arrived as a surprise. While we had the Big Books out in front of the TV, we also re-read the Golden Books to our younger siblings during commercials or whenever they had questions.
BTW: notice that there's NOTHING on WiKiPedia about the Dictionary or Atlas linked above, auction and sales postings seem to have become "first source" reference material on the WWW. Go figure!
How many channels are there now? There may already be more than were programs available in the early sixties How many programs are really worth watching? I really don't know, I gave up on television in Y2K, before the introduction of SurReality TV. I'll only watch about three of the shows my girlfriend records, and no news at all, which really irks her. It also upsets her on the occasions that I find out and mention stuff before she does, through osmosis, while intentionally filtering out all hyped "information" from commercial sources of any kind. HEH! [
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N.B.
Interesting that you're a real writer, I always hated writing and never thought I was any good at it. My family has been after me to write my memoirs, so I've been salting the forums with tidbits, semi-intentionally, after having realized that I've been doing so on and off here and on 'fritter for over ten years . . .
. . . whatever . . . reply at your own risk! :lol:
Short answer:
I'm pretty sure you're a lot better off using PostScript.
Interminable version:
I can't tell you much about TrueType fonts, I never had any real need to use them. Somehow, almost the entire Adobe Type Library wound up in my grubby little paws. [}
] ]'> I did all my design work in Illustrator and Freehand on the Mac and in Corel Draw under WIN 3.0 at first, and then on the Mac when it went cross-platform. CorelDraw's "readable PostScript" font import feature was for Type 3, as was their massive (fontripped) bundled type library, IIRC.FontRipping was a competitive sport in the early days of DTP, Graphic Design and vector art based Sign Making:
How many do you have? Which ones have you got? I've got these, how about trading . . .
. . . just like Baseball Cards and Bubble Gum when I was a schoolkid in the early Sixties.
Stream of deleriousness . . .
I never actually got into that scene, my daddy gave me a funny look when I got off the bus one day and showed him the "great" cards an older kid had sold me. He'd been recruited by IBM as a Systems Analyst and after that experience, I went back to spending my time building model planes, drawing WWII dogfight scenes, intently studying the VLSI textbooks scattered around the house as Artwork and, unfortunately, remaining blind to presence of Cobol, Pascal and Machine Level Programming Texts with which they were mixed. The chunk of CORE memory daddy used as a paperweight was a pretty neat sculpture too!
My brothers and sisters and I read the World Book Encyclopedia and all its updates cover-to-cover laying on the floor while watching what was pretty darn good programming on the three channels available back then.
How times have changed! Now you can hardly buy an Encyclopedia for home use. WiKiPedia and other online articles let anybody with just enough intelligence to open up an article and click or tap a pointing device rate the usefulness a/o accuracy of the WWW substitutes for, carefully compiled and edited, second source information. I hope I'm wrong, but most schoolkids never seem to crack a book to discover first source information from what I've seen. It was a huge deal in my family when we brought a new volume of the Golden Book Encyclopedia, Golden Book Illustrated Dictionary and Golden Book Picture Atlas of the World series home from the grocery store to devour along with the vittles every week.
Having cut our teeth on the Golden Book Series, it was a HUGE deal, to myself and the older of my five younger siblings, when the World Book arrived as a surprise. While we had the Big Books out in front of the TV, we also re-read the Golden Books to our younger siblings during commercials or whenever they had questions.
BTW: notice that there's NOTHING on WiKiPedia about the Dictionary or Atlas linked above, auction and sales postings seem to have become "first source" reference material on the WWW. Go figure!
How many channels are there now? There may already be more than were programs available in the early sixties How many programs are really worth watching? I really don't know, I gave up on television in Y2K, before the introduction of SurReality TV. I'll only watch about three of the shows my girlfriend records, and no news at all, which really irks her. It also upsets her on the occasions that I find out and mention stuff before she does, through osmosis, while intentionally filtering out all hyped "information" from commercial sources of any kind. HEH! [
)] ]'>N.B.
Interesting that you're a real writer, I always hated writing and never thought I was any good at it. My family has been after me to write my memoirs, so I've been salting the forums with tidbits, semi-intentionally, after having realized that I've been doing so on and off here and on 'fritter for over ten years . . .
. . . whatever . . . reply at your own risk! :lol: