Volonters wanted: Development of a Freeware Font Package for Mac

[Razvojnik]

##### DESCRIPTION OF THE PRELIMINARY CHARACTERISTIC OF SOFTWARE
BUILDING MATERIAL

"Paleofonts Mac 1.0 Beta" is a compilation of 279 freeware fonts
representing ancient scripts by various authours, intended for a
freeware redistribution as an integral collection by Vasil Gligorov to
users of Mac Os based platforms

The font files are of "DFont" file type and they have been insofar NOT
tested on a Mac Os platform.

##### HOW CAN YOU HELP?

If you are interested to help the development of the "Paleofonts Mac
1.0 Beta" into a regular version, you are kindly invited to take
participation (which, if you express a will, will be acknowledged by
inclusion of your name in a manner that exclude you of any legal
problem whatsoever) in the testing of these fonts on your Macintosh
system.

As a first step you are encouraged to download the several archived
fonts from following sites, which contain a download link.Please choose
the kind of archive file for which you have a suitable archive handling
utility.The download shouldn't take more than one minute:

http://www.uploading.com/?get=OSU4JFZI (tar.gz)

http://www.uploading.com/?get=TGAS334B (rar)

http://www.uploading.com/?get=YUZO7WZZ (zip)

Unpack the files, and if your archiver prompts you, designate a folder
for extraction.
When the extraction is over, you will have a dozen of *Dfont files (and
no other kind of file) in a separate folder
Please test at least few of these font files with your font viewing
utility, and construct a brief report on any technical problem with
opening of the files, typographical problems with glyphs, unusual look
of the symbols , error warnings etc.

It would be most thorough testing experience if you would eventually
install few of these fonts on your platform and test their mode of
action in text and graphics processors.

REPORT ABOUT THE QUALITY OR MALFUNCTION OF THE FONTS

At the end please compile a brief report containing these points:

1) Were *Dfont files provided in the package valid as fonts on a Mac Os
Platform?

2) Were there instances of any discontinuous flow of handling the
preview operation in your font viewing utility?

3) Were there any graphical disfigurations of the characters, cases of
missing characters, inversions of the order of Western alphabets
contained in most of these fonts.

4) If you used some of these fonts in a text processor or in a graphic
application, were there any problems with the general display of the
characters, their size, integrity etc.

Please provide these additional informations which are of importance
for the establishment of technical validity of this font package:

1) The type of your computer-general info
2) The type of your Operative System
3) The brand (company name, software name, number of version) of the:

a) archiving utility used to extract the fonts
b) font viewing application
c) text processor used
d) Graphics editing software used
F) Other kind of remarks

##### GRATITUDE

You may submit these informations on this newsgroup or email them to
the author at: vasil.gligo...@gmail.com .Be assured that these
informations do not in any way compromise the security of your
computer.All emailed data will remain anonymous, with the exception of
your explicit consent to be mentioned by your full name and surname or
an acceptable nick as a contributor to the development of the freeware
"Paleofonts Mac 1.0" software package.

I am most grateful for your kind participation in the testing of these
fonts.If they are functional, they will represent the first freeware
bundle of fonts for Macintosh designated for handling and publishing of
ancient scripts, a working process of extreme importance of all those
with academic affiliation with studies of history, archeology,
anthropology and other studies of man in a historic and contemporary
perspective.

Thank you for your generous support,

Vasil Gligorov

Skoplje,
FYROM
____________________________________________
Homepage: http://paleography.atspace.com

[sinclair_tm]

well, os x, 10.4.6, was able to open all three. one had more in it than the others. apple's font book did open them all with a preview. but without know what the fonts should look like/contain, i can't say how they are. maybe you could set up a site with jpgs of the complete fonts so that we have something to compare too.

[MacGizmo]

You might also consider NOT using .dfont format. They're a P.I.T.A. to deal with for many printers. Why not just use TrueType?

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by MacGizmo

You might also consider NOT using .dfont format. They're a P.I.T.A. to deal with for many printers. Why not just use TrueType?

*.dfont fonts are TrueType.

[MacGizmo]

That may be the case, but the fact that they have the .dfont extension has been known to hose some older RIPs. I don't know what it is, but they also tend to cause issues for some people who use Suitcase to manage fonts.

[Natobasso]

Type 1 fonts are usually best. But you probably can't use that format unless licensed from Adobe?

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by MacGizmo

That may be the case, but the fact that they have the .dfont extension has been known to hose some older RIPs. I don't know what it is, but they also tend to cause issues for some people who use Suitcase to manage fonts.

A 10-second Google search found the explanation of the problem and its solution.