DAVYS ART NOUVEAU INITIALS

A PostScript Type 1 PostScript drop caps initials font.


The font 'Davys Art Nouveau Initials' included in this package is a collection of unrelated complex drop capitals from the Art Nouveau period. A full alphabet is represented (there are also an extra A, T and I in the lower-case slots), but no more than three characters of the same style will be found in the font; consider this a "Grab Bag" kind of font, then. Note also that the characters are very ornate and complex; each character is defined by between 150 and 400 control points.

This font is distributed only in PostScript Type 1 format for Macintosh and PC. No other platforms or font formats are supported. It is extremely unlikely that any of the characters in this font will work in a TrueType conversion. Since the characters are very complex, you may experience some problems with display or printing of this font. For that reason, only PostScript Level 2 output devices are recommended for printing the font; if you use ATM to print and display PostScript fonts, you will need a rather large font cache, and you still may have problems with it. I have been able to print all the characters at 72 points on a PostScript Level 1 printer (v.47), but I cannot guarantee that you will get any output whatsoever at any size on a PostScript Level 1 printer. The font prints at 135 points on an HP LaserJet 4M without difficulty. Caveat emptor.

Trouble with printing the font to a PostScript Level 1 output device is caused by strict memory limitations for character complexity in Type 1 fonts. You can still print the characters at large sizes if you have software that can convert PostScript Type 1 font characters to outlines (the resulting outlines are no longer font characters and therefore not subject to the same strict memory limitations). Some programs that can convert Type 1 characters to outlines include Corel Draw, Aldus Freehand, Deneba Canvas and Adobe Illustrator. The aforementioned programs may then save the outlines in a format that your word processor or page layout program can accept.

Alternatively, you might choose to convert the font to PostScript Type 3; Type 3 fonts do not have the same stringent memory requirements; however, ATM cannot rasterize Type 3 fonts, so you will only be able to print a Type 3 version on a PostScript device. Programs that can convert this font to PostScript Type 3 include Fontographer, Font Monger, and Metamorphosis Pro.

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Davys Art Nouveau Initials is distributed as a shareware font, and was released into shareware on October 3, 1993, "Cougar Day." The font is copyrighted (c) 1993 by David Rakowski. All Rights Reserved (Alle Rechte Vorbehalten). You may obtain complete alphabets from various of the charcters of this font through sources indicated below. As for the shareware version of this font, the following rights and restrictions apply:

1. If you are able to make the font work, and you want to keep it, you are honor-bound to compensate the author for the amount of the shareware fee (see below); otherwise you should erase all copies.

2. You may give exactly one copy on disk to one friend, providing that all the files originally included in the archive are included and are unaltered.

3. You may not sell the font or any disk containing the font to anyone. For-profit organizations, non-profit organizations, and "user groups" are specifically prohibited from distributing this font on any disks for which money is charged (whether or not a profit is made), or for which a "quid pro quo" is made (such as "join us and get free fonts!").

4. You may not upload the font to any BBS, Internet, or online service without the written permission of the font author. The only authorized resting place for this font is the DTPFORUM of Compuserve.

5. The author will blithely ignore all correspondence regarding this font that does not include with it a shareware payment or donation to Columbia University. Inquiries regarding distribution of the font, whether commercially or not, will not be entertained.

6. You may not convert the font characters to EPS outlines and sell the outlines as clip art.

7. You may convert the font to another format, but you may not give or sell that version to anyone.

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SHAREWARE TERMS

The font author, who apparently likes to refer to himself in the third person (witness this sentence), is well known for his use of shareware fonts to support the breathtakingly underfunded Columbia Composers, a group run by graduate students in music at Columbia University whose purpose is to present music written by Columbia University students in public performance. The author is also well-known for his use of run-on sentences (witness previous sentence).

In this spirit, the author requests that you make a tax-deductible contribution to Columbia University in the amount of "what you think the font is worth." The suggested donation is $10, but your estimation may be higher or lower. THIS IS NOT A SHAREWARE PAYMENT, but a VOLUNTARY DONATION. Anyone who makes such a donation will be exempted by the author from shareware requirements. A SHAREWARE PAYMENT (which officially grants you a license to use one copy of the font) should be made to David Rakowski in the above amount. Note the distinction: the DONATION doesn't grant you a license to use the font, whereas the SHAREWARE PAYMENT does. Small-minded bureaucrats insist that this distinction be made here. Your SHAREWARE PAYMENT to David Rakowski will be turned over to Columbia University, but the amount you pay won't be tax-deductible unless you use fonts in your business. The DONATION is tax-deductible, but you don't "get" anything from it except a tax deduction and the font author's gratitude.

Any check you send should be made out to Columbia University (the DONATION) or David Rakowski (the SHAREWARE PAYMENT), and put into an envelope addressed to Cynthia Lemiesz, The One Behind the Divider, Music Department, 703 Dodge Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 (USA). Please do not try to contact either of us by phone (we have better things to do than talk about fonts).

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SHAMELESS PLUG

Now that I've lost your attention, let me mention the following: you may find David Rakowski's fonts in various commercial distribution channels. If you find a reference to "FontBar," this is a library of over 200 really cool fonts that don't suck made by Rakowski at the fictional entity "Insect Bytes" (in case you didn't know, "fictional" is synonymous with "nonexistent"). About 80 of them are completed and reworked versions of other shareware fonts by the Rakman. In the US, Lazy Dog Foundry of St. Paul, Minnesota (fax 612-291-0481) carries FontBar, as do other well-known font sellers. In Europe, FontBar is represented by INTECSAS, fax (49)211-631-332. The FontBar library consists of fonts from all periods, including other drop caps fonts, dingbats fonts, script fonts, text fonts, display fonts, fraktur fonts, and even 1950's fonts. What can we say? We've got time on our hands. Not to mention, blah blah blah.

Meanwhile, David Rakowski is actually a composer of serious music that sounds, to the usual font user, "like movie music. Oh wow." Having not written a shareware readme in over a year, he has forgotten how to make them short.
