The Ian-Bent font is a very pretty drop caps font 
patterned after a German Art Nouveau font drawn by 
Otto Eckmann. You'll find a full all-caps alphabet here of 
characters surrounded by stained glass-patterns. The 
versions that have been tested and uploaded are 
PostScript Type 1 and TrueType versions for both 
Macintosh and PC. No other platforms are supported. PC 
versions were installed tested by your advocate Eileen 
Wharmby before they were posted in that version.

Ian-Bent is a very complex, therefore memory-hungry 
font. I have been able to get the whole font to print on my 
3 MB NEC PostScript printer, but not usually more than 
about 15 characters of the font before the printer requests 
me to do certain impossible things with my anatomy. Be 
careful. Any problems you have with printing or 
displaying this font are due to memory limitations and 
are not my fault, given this caveat. Hey, the guys who 
made up the specifications for scaleable fonts were 
REALLY, REALLY strict.

The Ian-Bent font is copyright (c) 1992 by David 
Rakowski. All Rights Reserved. It is distributed free of 
charge for personal use. You may give copies to your 
friends, provided all the files originally in this archive, 
including the Readme, are included. Commercial 
distribution is specifically, expressly PROHIBITED. User 
groups and nonprofit organizations may include this font 
on their nominal charge disks, providing the readmes are 
included. Distribution, other than in the USA, of this font 
is also prohibited, without exception. International 
copyright secured.

The Ian-Bent font comes to you, rather altruistically, 
from Insect Bytes, where we've recently been made aware 
of a rather substantial amount of unsanctioned and illegal 
distribution of our other fonts, especially in Europe, 
including commercial sale, without Readmes, of our 
fonts. We are not pleased. Yet we go on. Go ahead. Hit 
us again. And again.

Ian Bent is the chairman of the Columbia University 
Music Department, who certainly deserves to have a font 
named after him, despite his British accent.
