6 August 1987

     Decided to make up another Glyphix set of soft fonts using
the glyph called Optimis.  These are normal fonts and not been
changed from the normal type face.
     I am still impressed by the improvement of the font
quality of the latest version of Glyphix.  The company furnishes
on the disk four glyph font styles of Helvette, Optimis, Centrum
and Roman as type faces.  A fifth glyph called GARAMET is now
available.
     The quality of the generated fonts is almost as good as that
furnished by known companies in the business and I can't tell the
difference between them.
     With the release of Version 2, SWFTE has also deleted the
copyright notice in the generated fonts as well as added the name
of the created font so that the name will print out on an HPLJ
Series II font printout.
     I talked with the company president, David Goodman on 21
July and he verified that SWFTE does NOT own the generated fonts.
Of course, the program, Glyphix and the base glyphs are copyrighted.
He stated that generated fonts may be placed in the public domain.
Therefore, this is a small sample of their Centrum Style
font in a file called OPTGLX.ARC.  These are straight 10 and 12 point
normal, italic and bold type faces.  Included are straight versions
of 18 and  24 point fonts.
     I have created my own version of font naming.  The first 3
characters are the type face, the next two are the point size, the
6th character is 'R' for regular upright, 'I' for italic, 'B' for
bold and 'S' for any variation from the normal type face.  The
next is for the level of bolding from B0 to B9.  The extension
is either USP - portrait or USL for landscape mode.  As an
example:  GAR12IB0.USP is Garamet, 12 point italic, no bolding, in
portrait mode.
     The beauty of Glyphix is that you can create your own type of
fonts with almost infinite variations of style.  You can vary
your fonts with four (or more type faces), orientation of portrait
or landscape, point size from 4 to 60 points, expansion of width
from 25% to 400%, changing weight of the type from -5 to 9 where 0
is normal, fill patterns of 12 options and slanted type from the
left or to the right up to several percent.  Their ad states up to
200,000 variations.  I believe it!
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Glyphix is a product of:
     SWFTE International, Ltd
     Box 219
     Rockland, DE  19732
     (800) 237-9383
     (302) 685-1123
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    And NO, I do not have any interest in the company other than
being happy I ordered Glyphix in the first place, and being very
happy with the results.
                                       Don Kelley
                                       2451 Hingham Court
                                       Woodbridge, VA  22192