Files included in this zipfile: =============================== CAMBERIC.AFM Adobe Font Metrics file CAMBERIC.PFM Windows font metric file CAMBERIC.WID Ventura Width Table CAMBERIC.PFB Font File in Adobe Binary Type 1 format CAMBERIC.txt This file The font file only contains characters in the lower 127 ASCII range, which is sufficient for a non-commercial, English-speaking/oriented user such as myself. That is, it has almost all the characters that you can get on your PC screen with a single keystroke. All the files necessary to use this font, as is, with ATM for Windows are here. All the files necessary to use this font, as is, with Ventura Publisher're here All the files necessary to import into CorelDRAW! are here. All the files necessary to use MERGEPRD for Word for DOS are here. All the files necessary to import into ZSoft's SoftType are here. I leave it up to you to know how to do this. Consult your program's document- ation if you don't know how... How it was done: =============== This font was scanned using a hand scanner from a type book. Individual letters were then saved as individual bitmaps. I then used Corel DRAW! as the drawing program to create the individual letters as objects from the bitmaps. A departure for me this time, rather auto-outlining using Publisher's Type Foundry, was to draw the individual letters in Corel DRAW! This gave me a greater degree of freedom in the placement of the individual nodes. I then used Corel DRAW! to export the individual letterforms to an existing Corel font, overwriting the old font. The next step was exporting to Publisher's Type Foundry using WFNboss (a companion font management program included with Corel DRAW!) In PTF, I did final clean-up along with setting the kerning info I wanted to use. When I re-imported the font to Corel, it now had kerning info. This was in- cluded when I then exported the font to Adobe Type 1 format, using WFNboss once again. Unfortunately, ZSoft, the creator of Publisher's Type Foundry, won't create a translator which exports to Adobe Type 1 format. They also seem to resist the notion of creating the necessary *.afm files, so useful for installing the fonts in systems other than Windows. Thus all the importing-exporting to Corel to get the Adobe Font Metric file WITH the kerning info. Not done yet... Corel's WFNboss currently has a few bugs (which are on the verge of being corrected), such as writing incorrect header info in the Binary font file and giving each and every font it exports an identical Unique Font ID. The Adobe Type 1 export filter also will create an *.afm file which Ventura's AFMTOVFM conversion program for creating Ventura Width Tables can't handle. For those who are interested, I almost always change the StartCharMetrics number to 192 if the existing number is greater than that and then I simply let AFMTOVFM change it to the correct number. WFNboss also inexplicably puts quite a few "spaces" between the StartKernPairs number and the end of the line. These spaces must be removed for the conversion to *.vfm to work. ================ Perhaps one day, with the sheer bulk of potential customers using the PC platform and postscript, creating fonts on the PC will be as "easy" (aheeem!) as it is on the MAC. but until then... Sigh.... ================ Disclaimer ========== This font is "free" and provided as-is with no warrants or guarantees as to the completeness of the information or its suitability for any particular purpose. ========== Use it, modify it, share it. This is done in the spirit of sharing what I learn. I encourage you to do likewise. Enjoy Dave Fabik 2322 NE Pacific # 193 Portland, OR 97232 p.s. I make no money off this, so I do not accept collect calls!