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In article <3811@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) writes:
>Does anyone know if Calamus can produce Ultrascript output?  I already
>have a considerable number of Ultrascript fonts, and while Calamus
>looks attractive, it will end up costing many hundreds of dollars if I
>have to buy a complete new set of fonts just to use it.
>
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Sorry Mike.  The deal with Calamus is that, like Ultrascript, it uses outline
fonts.  If you want to use a Garamond face, you need the Calamus Garamond face,
otherwise, Calamus will not be able to show you the output on the screen.
Calamus takes care of all the "painting" of all the characters.
To use the Ultrascript fonts in Calamus, you need to convert the US font into
the Cal font.  This is unlike Fleet Street, which uses GDOS to do the screen
display, but creates US output and lets US take care of the outline face.

Perhaps a more pertinent question:  Does anyone here on the net know what
the font encoding scheme for Calamus is?  I can see how it would be
relatively easy to convert PS compatible fonts into Calamus since they
(presumably) use splines and things like that.

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