[CT] Re: Left Behind

Daniel Moran dkm_1 at pacbell.net
Wed Jan 23 22:25:47 PST 2002


Oddly, the font (which embedded fine the first couple of passes) apparently 
failed to embed in the last version of the file (which is now up there on 
the site.) What happens when that happens is that Acrobat creates a bitmap 
version of the font, which looks horrible. I'll re-generate it and put it 
up again when I have a chance.

The same text in tLD was supposed to be Unifon; I had a conversation with 
the typesetter at the time that was a comedy of miscommunication. I didn't 
have a unifon font (1992, this was) and neither did they. I don't know why 
we ended up with greek characters -- I sent them a photocopy of the unifon 
characters with the .mss, and asked that they photographically reduce and 
set from that -- it wouldn't have looked great, but I doubt it would have 
looked any sillier than the greek characters we ended up using.

At 06:48 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Daniel Moran wrote:
>
> >
> >I'm looking into producing an HTML version of it, but that might be
> >while; among other things I need to figure out how to handle the unifon
> >characters that appear midway through. (As .pdf it's easy; you just embed
> >the unifon font, which, admittedly, makes the file larger.)
> >
>
>The Unifon text is rendered in a rather blocky, poorly-legible way.
>It looks like a rather ugly font. I don't suppose there's a more
>elegant version?
>
>Or maybe you could just use Tengwar (Tolkien's languages were both
>visually and phonetically elegant).  :-)
>
>Just out of curiosity, did you intend to use Unifon in "The Last
>Dancer", and substituted Greek characters since they didn't have it
>available then?
>
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