Enclosed you will find the necessary files to use GriffinDingbats, a Type 1, ATM-compatible PostScript font. The font contains about 155 picture characters and a rather ornate Gothic drop caps font. The picture images range from Art Nouveau printer ornaments, Renaissance printer ornaments and woodcut printer ornaments to smiling, walking vegetables; the drop caps letters are based on a Gothic typeface called Celebration. This is the IBM PC version. A TrueType version is also available.
The easiest way to see which characters are where if you have WinWord, is to download Woody Leonhard's Dingr20.zip from MSAPP lib 12. Install Griffdin into a newly opened WinWord and keep widening the table until all the error messages are replaced by the full graphic. Some are very wide!
CAVEAT: this is a very large font that could cause trouble to users of PostScript printers with less than 2MB of memory or to users of Adobe Type Manager with small font caches; in fact, on my computer, certain characters display as blanks when ATM is used and a non-installed bitmap size is called for; they do, however, print just fine (my font cache is set at 256K). If you have problems with this font, there IS a version broken up into smaller pieces which should alleviate those problems.
The font characters should be self-explanatory. Repeating characters and borders will be found everywhere; certain woodcut characters and ornaments have a deliberately rough quality to them, in order to preserve their original printed character. Some ornaments in the higher ASCII range will need to be printed at a size exceeding 72 points, at 300 dpi, in order to have the intended white-on-black effect.
GriffinDingbats is ⌐ 1991 by David Rakowski (Hey! That╒s me!), and also by its namesake, the Griffin Music Ensemble. All Rights Reserved; alle rechte vorbehalten; tous droites reservÄes. It is shareware. I╒m sure you╒ll agree that it╒s one of the best picture fonts available as shareware (even better than DavysDingbats!). If you like the font, use the font, or keep the font, please please please PLEASE will you consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the Griffin Music Ensemble of $12 or more? The Griffin Music Ensemble is a six-year old performing ensemble, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, which is dedicated to the performance of music composed by established and young composers; in six years it has presented over twenty-five world premieres and at least as many Boston premieres; the group╒s major source of funding has been eliminated for the coming season, and we are scrambling for the funds to put on a minimal season until the recession ends and more funding can be found. If you give $12, you will be considered a payer of a shareware fee and a rightful owner; if you give $25 or more, you will be listed on the group╒s concert programs and you will receive another disk of fonts from me, as a premium. If you give $50, I╒ll send you two disks of fonts; and if you give $12,000, the result will be unpredictable and incredibly joyous.
Please make your check payable to Griffin Music Ensemble and mail it to Griffin Music Ensemble, 19 Chestnut Terrace, Newton Centre, MA 01259.
You may make copies of GriffinDingbats for personal use and you may give copies away, providing no money changes hands and providing all the files in this archive are included, including the file you are reading. User groups and other nonprofit organizations may also distribute this font on disks for which they charge money, with the same conditions. Even commercial organizations that sell shareware disks may sell disks containing this font, providing the profit is not excessive and providing the obnoxious ╥Paying for this disk doesn╒t mean you╒ve paid for the software on it╙ message appears on the disk label containing this software and providing the previously mentioned conditions are met.
GriffinDingbats is another incredibly cute product from Insect Bytes, where the mosquitoes make up for in quantity what they lack in size, and where cockroaches have never set foot. In a manner of speaking.
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Compuserve: 73240,3060
BITNET: rak@woof.columbia.edu
Converted for ATM/PC from the original Mac files and uploaded by permission of the author.
Put these files in your font directory (eg.c:\fonts), point ATM at it, select the font and tell it to ADD. Don't forget to do the "printer setup shuffle" in WinWord to get it added to the list!
Some flavors of PS printers or cartidges seem to have trouble with some fonts made with Fonto 3.1 (if you have any try replacing the copyright symbols (A9) with spaces (20) in the plain ASCII section at the head of PFB.) These latest uploads were made with 3.2 and shouldn't present the problem.
Either flavor fonts work perfectly with ATM in PCL mode.
