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Re: Hershey Fonts Revival

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On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 20:42:54 UTC-4, Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:
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> … someone mentioned that Sun used to offer the Hershey fonts in PostScript 
> Type 3 format, back in the day.

They were also available for Ghostscript up to v6.0. They are the *.gsf files in this archive:
ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/fonts/base35/ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz

They implement a Usenet Hershey Font format parser in PostScript.

Nice work on your library, btw. Re-encoding these fonts is a pain, especially from the Usenet format. Hershey's original record-based distribution (now lost, but the dedicated could OCR the various publications that list it) is a much cleaner format.

I've done some work on this, too, including:
* a small library and encoding vector: https://github.com/scruss/python-hershey
* some initial attempts to convert the fonts to outline OpenType: https://github.com/scruss/AVHershey-OTF

I really need to revisit the latter project, as I now have a better workflow that adds proper splined line joins and caps to the characters.

cheers,
 Stewart

73 de VA3PID!

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Hershey Fonts Revival Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 17:42 -0700
  Re: Hershey Fonts Revival scruss@gmail.com - 2016-06-03 07:53 -0700
    Re: Hershey Fonts Revival Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 18:03 -0700
      Re: Hershey Fonts Revival scruss@gmail.com - 2016-06-19 19:05 -0700
  Re: Hershey Fonts Revival luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-03 12:23 -0700
    Re: Hershey Fonts Revival Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 18:04 -0700

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