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Subject: comp.fonts FAQ: Atari Info
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Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts.
It addresses both general font questions and questions that
are specific to a particular platform.
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Subject: 9. Atari ST/TT/Falcon Information
Erlend Nagel contributed the following information about the Atari
ST/TT/Falcon.
Subject: 9.1. SpeedoGDOS
SpeedoGDOS is similar to ATM.
Fonts included with SpeedoGDOS 4.x
==================================
14 fonts are included with SpeedoGDOS 4.x.
Bitstream Cooper Black, Dutch 801 Roman, Dutch 801 Bold, Dutch 801
Italic, Dutch 801 Bold Italic, Monospace 821, More Wingbats SWC, Park
Avenue, Swiss 721, Swiss 721 Bold, Swiss 721 Italic, Swiss 721 Bols
Italic, Symbol Monospaced, and VAG Rounded
Fonts included with SpeedoGDOS 5.x
==================================
24 fonts are included with SpeedoGDOS 5.x. All fonts included with
SpeedoGDOS 4.x plus the following:
American Garamond Roman, American Garamond Bold, American Garamond
Italic, American Garamond Bold Italic, AD LIB Regular, Allegro Regular,
Amelia Regular, and Cataneo Bold
Subject: 9.2. Atari File Formats
Atari Font formats
==================
The standard Atari OS in ROM does not support any type of fonts. To use
different fonts in applications, either the application has to have
built-in support for some font format, or an add-on program is needed.
This add-on program is called a GDOS, a Graphical Device Operating
System. There are many different versions of GDOS.
The earliest versions of GDOS supported only GEM bitmap fonts (*.FNT).
These versions include GDOS, AMC-GDOS (Atari), G-plus (Codehead) and
Font-GDOS (Atari again). Font-GDOS (available for free) added caching
to the font-manager, so not all fonts need to reside in memory at the
same time.
FontGDOS and FSM-GDOS were develloped in parallel and are both
successors of Atari-GDOS (1.x). The FSM stands for Font Scaling
Manager and allowed vector fonts to be used. FSM-GDOS was only
included with Wordflair II and G-Man. FSM-GDOS also still supported GEM
bitmap fonts. The font format is the QMS/Imagen format.
After FSM-GDOS, Atari introduced SpeedoGDOS 4.0, using Speedo font
scaling technology licensed from Bitstream. 14 fonts are included with
this version (see 1.15). SpeedoGDOS 4.0 and 4.1 can use GEM bitmap,
Atari encrypted and commercially encrypted Speedo fonts. As of version
4.2 also the publicly available X11 Speedo fonts can be used.
SpeedoGDOS offers improved speed and reliability over FSM-GDOS, as well
as track- and pair-kerning.
Recently Compo Software introduced SpeedoGDOS 5.x which supports GEM
bitmap, Speedo, Truetype and Type 1 fonts. Included are 22 Speedo fonts
(see 1.15).
For more information about the GDOS format, consult the GDOS FAQ:
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/atari/Gdos/gdosi??e.txt. The "??" is the
version number; as of 01 Mar 95, the versions are: 24 in English and 25
in German. A LaTeX version of the German edition is also available.
Also recently introduced was NVDI 3.0 by Behne & Behne, which supports
GEM bitmap, Speedo and Truetype fonts. The biggest difference when
compared to SpeedoGDOS 5.x is the improved speed, because NVDI is
written in Assembler instead of C. Only 2 fonts are included with NVDI
3.0.
These fonts are transparent to programs. There are a few other options
that require support by the program using the fonts. Two major font
formats are supported in this way on the Atari, namely
Signum!2/Signum!3 fonts and Calamus fonts.
The Signum!2 font format is a bitmapped font format supported by many
wordprocessors and some drawing packages. Amazing print quality on
9-needle printers. Many high quality designs are available in Signum!2
and Signum!3 format (Mostly German), especially for some special
languages like Polish. There are also many PD fonts available in this
format.
The Calamus (*.CFN) format was introduced by DMC, in their Calamus DTP
program that uses soft-RIPping. The Calamus font format has no hinting
since it is meant to be used on very high resolution type setting
machines. Also supported by Digital Art's (DA's) software. Many
professional designs are available in this format, as well as a lot of
PD fonts.
Atari Font Format Extensions
============================
File formats specific to the Atari platform:
* .E24
Bitmapped Signum!2 screen font.
* .L30
Bitmapped Signum!2 printer font for Laser and Deskjet printers.
* .OTL
Vector font table used by FSM-GDOS.
* .P9
Bitmapped Signum!2 printer font for Hi-Res 9-needle printers
(214*196 dpi).
* .P24
Bitmapped Signum!2 printer font for 24-needle printers.
* .QFM
Vector font used by FSM-GDOS.
Subject: 9.3. Frequently Requested Atari Fonts
Some fonts, including a few Speedo fonts are available from various
archives. The most important Atari archive is atari.archive.umich.edu.
Most fonts can be had from PD/Shareware distributors around the world...
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