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Looking for some advice or a push in the right direction.  This is a 
request, not of behalf of the Boeing Company, but on behalf of an
industry association.  There is interest in the aquisition/development
of a "common" font for graphical illustration applications in the
industry.

A recent survey of display devices and rendering mechanisms revealed 
a wide variety of equipment among the industry participants.  A partial
list of display surfaces follow:

Xerox 9790 printers
Imagen (Ultrascript, Impress)
Postscript printers
HP laserjet printers
SGI Workstations
CATIA workstations
Autotrol workstations
Prime/CV workstations
Kodak 1392, 1320
Apollo workstations
DECstations
Sparcstations
IBM PS/2
Macs
HP 9000
III Comp 80
III Infoset
Logo terminals
etc...

The association is looking for a scalable outline font of the extended
ASCII character set that would be portable to a seemingly infinite number
of devices.  I've talked to a couple of vendors, who consider this 
technical challange not insurmountable.

I'm looking for opinions concerning the technical feasibility of such a 
task and would like to know who the players are in the game.  I know a few
of the typeface vendors, but I'm sure I don't know all of them.

Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated!  Either post your
responses or email directly to me at dwc@voodoo.boeing.com.


				      Thanks again,
						  
						  Dave