Revised Ovation Pro Fonts

When Beebug first published Ovation in 1990 they supplied a number of fonts.
In those days the outline font manager was a new innovation and the fonts so
familiar now were not supplied with RISC OS. Over the intervening years no
change has been made to the Beebug fonts. This archive contains a major
update. However please note that the new versions must only be used by
purchasers of Ovation Pro.

These are the fonts;

SwissB   - equivalent to PostScript Helvetica. An alternate for Homerton.
Curator  - equivalent to PostScript Courier. An alternate for Corpus.
Paladin  - equivalent to PostScript Palatino.
Vogue    - equivalent to PostScript AvantGarde. 
Bookmark - equivalent to PostScript Bookman. 
Chaucer  - equivalent to PostScript ZapfChancery.
SymbolB  - equivalent to PostScript Symbol.

DPDings  - no PostScript equivalent. A Dingbats font like Selwyn. 
(This font is not one Beebug supplied originally,
it is the RISC OS equivalent of a new font used by Ovation Pro for Windows.)

True Type versions of these fonts are supplied with Ovation Pro for Windows.
They are thus useful for documents that need to be used on both Windows and
RISC OS.

To install the fonts;

(1) double click on !Boot
(2) click on Fonts in the resulting window
(3) click on Install fonts
(4) drag the !Fonts in this archive to the font merge window
(5) click on Merge.

Experienced RISC OS users will know that they can alternatively copy the
individual font folders from this archive to a !Fonts folder in their copy
of RISC OS.

The original fonts have been extended (from just Latin 1) to include all
characters found in the Base0 Encoding, from which all Latin alphabets (and
Welsh) can be used. When for example RISC OS is configured to e.g. Latin 9
(Welsh), characters for that language are available. 

RISC OS 5 has a Unicode font manager and these new fonts can be used by
applications which use it.

The supported Latin Encodings for RISC OS 4 and RISC OS 5 are: 

Latin 1 ISO-8859-1  (West European)
Latin 2 ISO-8859-2  (East European)
Latin 3 ISO-8859-3  (South European)- also esperanto 
Latin 4 ISO-8859-4  (North European)
Latin 5 ISO-8859-9  (Turkish)
Latin 6 ISO-8859-10 (Nordic)
Latin 9 ISO-8859-15 (West European) - adapted Latin 1 Welsh

And for RISC OS 5 only:

Latin 7 ISO-8859-13 (Baltic Rim)
Latin 8 ISO-8859-14 (Gaelic and Welsh)


The default encoding is Acorn Latin1, and this should be used when an
Ovation Pro document is intended for use with Ovation Pro for Windows.

To see all the chars available and to see to which Latin Encoding they
belong, you can use !Xchars (Martin  Wuerthner).

Each font comes with a print-ready PostScript Type1 file with support for
all languages and for all characters. This means that the Welsh glyphs in
all fonts appear in print in PostScript and in pdf. It also means that print
to PostScript can be done in each alphabet. PostScript output can be
rendered in GView and also in RiScript. From this PostScript a pdf can be
made in each alphabet as long as GhostScript (or !ps2pdf) is used  for
alphabets other than Latin 1. By default RiScript only outputs Latin 1. 

A pdf made this way can not only be happily displayed in Acrobat, but also
printed without the annoying filled characters which occur when the original
fonts are used in e.g. RiScript. 

The new fonts were produced by Mrs. Tonnie Demarteau.


(c) David Pilling Ltd. 2004.


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email: david@pilling.demon.co.uk
  web: http://www.davidpilling.net
