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Calamus fonts (was Re: COMDEX And Atari)

#5356
From: Michael Fischer
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1989 04:13
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In article <0927890305189323@thelake.UUCP> pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve writes:
>
>DeskSet II is a contemporary page layout system. As I recall, it uses
>Compugraphic Intellifont technology. My local Atari dealer has had
>brochures on DeskSet II since last winter, but there is no evidence that
>the Atari ST version has been released for sale. This is no major loss,
>since Calamus does such an impressive (and speedy) job, also with
>Compugraphic technology.
>
>Compugraphic, currently a subsidiary of Agfa-Gevaert, is a company that
>makes medium-to-high-quality commercial phototypesetting machines (and
>some text editing systems). It has a large typeface library. In the last
>couple of years, it has begun marketing digital representations of those
>typefaces, in its own proprietary vector encoding as well as in PostScript
>format.

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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From: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer)
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Subject: Calamus fonts (was Re: COMDEX  And Atari)
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Date: 28 Oct 89 04:13:39 GMT
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