Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype
I'm searching for a PostScript font to reproduce the look of old Teletypes, like the ASR-33 used as a terminal for computers in the 1970s. These used a metal ball of type struck through an inked ribbon onto newsprint held to a rubber roller, so the printed character in this media is so much more than the outline - it's the metal font on the ball, it's the threads in the ribbon, it's the texture of the paper. Ideally, this would be an unusual sort of Type 3 font where each characters was defined as a bitmap in shades of grey, and that overstrike would be emulated by additive layering of the bitmaps, as opposed to each bitmap replacing the previous character. I have a web page devoted to preserving early alphabetic art, such as overstrike art. I am not interested in today's ASCII art. I've written a program that translates the original ASCII overstrike data into an Adobe Illustrator file. In this way, I can at least emulate the use of overstrike by using PhotoShop to rasterize the AI file. Examples of overstrike art recreated in this way are on my web page. I'm looking for any sort of font like this, or a tool that could produce it, assuming I can scan examples of actual Teletype printing. - John Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm/> -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f62f2,47e8d8a068349d1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf62f2,public X-Google-Thread: fd705,47e8d8a068349d1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd705,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,47e8d8a068349d1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb79,47e8d8a068349d1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb79,public From: jfo...@threedee.com Subject: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype Date: 1998/09/18 Message-ID: <6tttar$seg$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 392419735 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x11.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 208.18.183.65 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Sep 18 15:13:33 1998 GMT Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript,alt.ascii-art X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.06 [en] (WinNT; I)
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