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In article <1k3feiINN8in@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring) writes:

   Does anyone know the Digital (no, not International) Typeface Corporation (DTC)?
   I have seen some of their fonts and they didn't look too bad, although the truth
   will only come out at higher resolutions than 300 dpi. However, I found for
   example their Bodoni-DTC to be aesthetically preferable to most other Bodonis I
   have seen. So, I was wondering, if DTC is any good in the technical department
   as well, and if yes, where can I buy these fonts?

   Ulrich Mayring

DTC font sets come bundled with several products, including LaserMaster
printers and Micrografx Designer.

DTC fonts are hinted, but make no use of hint replacement, for example.  
If you have `commercial grade' fonts from other foundries, you may want to
make sure that installation of the DTC fonts does not overwrite them with
fonts that use the same file names...

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:


>In article <1k3feiINN8in@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring) writes:

>   Does anyone know the Digital (no, not International) Typeface Corporation (DTC)?
>   I have seen some of their fonts and they didn't look too bad, although the truth
>   will only come out at higher resolutions than 300 dpi. However, I found for
>   example their Bodoni-DTC to be aesthetically preferable to most other Bodonis I
>   have seen. So, I was wondering, if DTC is any good in the technical department
>   as well, and if yes, where can I buy these fonts?

>   Ulrich Mayring

>DTC font sets come bundled with several products, including LaserMaster
>printers and Micrografx Designer.

>DTC fonts are hinted, but make no use of hint replacement, for example.  
>If you have `commercial grade' fonts from other foundries, you may want to
>make sure that installation of the DTC fonts does not overwrite them with
>fonts that use the same file names...

>Berthold K.P. Horn
>Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Please excuse my ignorance in technical questions, but what is hint replace-
ment? Are there any other technicalities to look for in a font besides that
and hinting?
And while I'm at it: Commercial grade fonts aren't always what they're cracked
up to be. Take a look at Adobe's Joanna Regular, e.g., apart from the 
aesthetics, which obviously are debatable, this font has gruesome kerning. It
is of a quality I'd expect from Shareware fonts and still I would be dis-
appointed. But hey - I paid money for that one, since I believe in buying
fonts. So, what I was looking for, is a cheaper alternative with still good
quality and I am looking into DTC right now...

Anyways, thanx a lot, Berthold, for all the helpful information you regularly
dish out at us less educated people. That had to be said.

Ulrich Mayring