GRIFFIN DINGBATS -- FOUR TRUETYPE FONTS

Enclosed you will find the necessary files to use GriffinDingbats, a 
set of TrueType fonts.  The fonts contain 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.  An IBM PC PostScript Type 1 version 
will soon be available and will be uploaded to Compuserve.  
PostScript Type 1 versions are also available.  The four fonts fill the 
regular, shift, option and shift-option keyboards with splendorous 
pictures; hence the four font names.  Look on the SHIFT keyboard 
for the drop caps fonts.  The TrueType version of this font was 
created from a PostScript font and converted by FontMonger, 
version 1.03.

The GriffinDingbats fonts install like any font.  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.  The ornament under option-period will 
need to be printed at a size exceeding 72 points, at 300 dpi, in order 
to have the intended white-on-black effect.

CAVEAT: If you print to a PostScript or PostScript-compatible 
printer, it is recommended you NOT use these fonts; use, instead, 
the true PostScript Type 1 versions that are also available, possibly 
from the same place you got these fonts.  These characters were 
originally created with PostScript outlines and may not survive the 
conversion from PostScript to TrueType and back to PostScript.

GriffinDingbats is  1991 by David Rakowski (Hey! Thats me!), and 
also by its namesake, the Griffin Music Ensemble.  All Rights 
Reserved; alle rechte vorbehalten; tous droites reserves.  It is 
shareware.  Im sure youll agree that its 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 groups 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 groups concert programs and you 
will receive another disk of fonts from me, as a premium.  If you 
give $50, Ill 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 the GriffinDingbats fonts 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 doesnt mean youve 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.

GEnie: RAKMAN
Compuserve: 73240,3060
BITNET: rak@woof.columbia.edu
