stroked Courier?

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#1996

Author: John Kesich,321wwh,998-3047,
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:44

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One of my users finds the Courier font too light in relation to Courier-Bold.

After rummaging through the PostScript Reference Manual I concluded that
the way to fix this would be to create a modified Courier font by copying
Courier, changing the copy to a stroked font and adjusting the stroke weight
to taste.  So far my efforts to do this have failed miserably.

Does anyone have the ps code for creating a stroked Courier font?
Or, if there is a better way to solve this problem, please let me know.

Thanks.

Re: stroked Courier?

#2048

Author: Henry Churchyard
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:16

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In article <61830002@acf3.NYU.EDU>, kesich@acf3.NYU.EDU (John Kesich,321wwh,998-3047,) writes:
> One of my users finds the Courier font too light in relation to Courier-Bold.
> 
  Use the Bitstream Courier font distributed with X11.  An archie
search turns up the following:

Host aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de
    Location: /.disk2/usenet/comp.archives/auto/comp.windows.x
           FILE -r--rw-r--       1222  Mar 31 06:00  Bitstream-contributes-Type1-outlines-for-Charter-and-Courier-fonts.Z
    Location: /.disk2/windows/xcontrib
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     466944  Mar 26 02:17  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host bikini.cis.ufl.edu
    Location: /pub/src/X11R5
           FILE -rw-r--r--     466944  Mar 26 21:22  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk
    Location: /export/postscript/fonts
           FILE -rw-r--r--     465434  Jun  4 11:02  Bitstream-Type1.tar.Z
    Location: /pub/postscript/fonts
           FILE -rw-r--r--     465434  Jun  4 11:02  Bitstream-Type1.tar.Z

Host export.lcs.mit.edu
    Location: /contrib
           FILE -rw-r--r--     466944  Mar 25 21:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host ftp.uu.net
    Location: /pub/window-sys/X/contrib
           FILE -rw-r--r--     465434  Mar 25 16:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar.Z

Host gatekeeper.dec.com
    Location: /.1/X11/contrib
           FILE -r--r--r--     466944  Mar 25 13:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host iskut.ucs.ubc.ca
    Location: /pub/X11/contrib
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     466944  Mar 25 16:20  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host liasun3.epfl.ch
    Location: /pub/X/contrib
           FILE -rw-r--r--     466944  Mar 26 10:08  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host nic.funet.fi
    Location: /pub/X11/contrib
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     466944  May  7 00:44  Bitstream-Type1.tar
    Location: /pub/pics/jpeg/programs/X11
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     466944  May  7 00:44  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au
    Location: /X11/contrib
           FILE -r--r--r--     466944  Mar 25 21:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de
    Location: /pub/X11/contrib
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     466944  Mar 25 22:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host simpson.germany.eu.net
    Location: /pub/X11/contrib
           FILE -r--r--r--     466944  Mar 25 21:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
    Location: /pub/X11/contrib
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     466944  Mar 25 21:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at
    Location: /x11/contrib
           FILE -rw-r--r--     466944  Mar 25 21:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host ugle.unit.no
    Location: /pub/X11/contrib
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     466944  Mar 28 13:30  Bitstream-Type1.tar

Host unix.hensa.ac.uk
    Location: /pub/uunet/pub/window-sys/X/contrib
           FILE -rw-r--r--     465434  Mar 25 21:34  Bitstream-Type1.tar.Z
--
         --Henry Churchyard     churchh@emx.cc.utexas.edu

Re: stroked Courier?

#2047

Author: Todd C. Williams
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 01:15

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In article <61830002@acf3.NYU.EDU> kesich@acf3.NYU.EDU (John Kesich,321wwh,998-3047,) writes:
>One of my users finds the Courier font too light in relation to Courier-Bold.
>...I concluded that the way to fix this would be to create a modified...
>...if there is a better way to solve this problem, please let me know.

To summarize the responses a posting I made a month or two ago:
Adobe's Courier PS font was changed in late 1989 from a stroked representation
to an outline representation.  Also, the "weight" of the font was reduced.
Version 002.000 through 002.003 exhibit this.

Version 002.004, completed in Sept 1991, fixed these problems.
I don't know where to get it.  I think it ships with ATM these days.

Don't bother trying to fix the old font; just get the new one.

-- 
Todd Williams    UNIX Systems Coordinator     todd@macsch.com    (213) 259-4973
MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. ("MSC"),  815 Colorado Blvd.,  Los Angeles, CA   90041
"The Democrats stand for nothing except 'I wish I was a Republican' and the
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered
in balloons and ribbons."  -Frank Zappa, 1991  (Zappa for president!)

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