Included in this archive are demo, or in-progress, versions of the fonts Christensen-Caps and Dieter-Caps. Dieter-Caps is an extremely rounded and open Uncial or Gothic-type font of capitals only that look like stylized 16th-century caps (it is based on a font called Caligraph); Christensen-Caps is a font of Drop Caps uncial letters white-on-black surrounded by leafy patterns enclosed in black squares. Both fonts contain a complete alphabet of upper-case letters, but in Christensen-Caps, I and J are identical and U and V are also identical. Both fonts are IN PROGRESS, not ready for the world yet, but are being released for a limited time only with an expiration date for the expressed purpose of being used for homemade Christmas cards. These fonts in their current condition are tolerable at low resolutions.

The two fonts contained in this package are copyright (c) 1992 by David Rakowski. All Rights Reserved. US and international Copyright registration is pending. These fonts as you find them here are IN PROGRESS; much more work needs to be done on them before they are ready for anticipated commercial release. The versions contained herein are shareware, with a requested shareware fee of $20 (make payable to Columbia University, mail to Cynthia Lemiesz, Music Department, 703 Dodge Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027) or $15 for just one of the fonts. The fonts were uploaded to DTPFORUM on Compuserve on Thanksgiving Day 1992 as a Christmas present to Compuserve users; they will be withdrawn on December 23, 1992 in favor of spiffier, better-looking, commercial versions. The shareware fee is WAIVED for any Compuserve user who downloads these fonts between November 26 and December 23, 1992.

TERMS: You may keep as many copies of Dieter-Caps and Christensen-Caps as you wish for your own personal use. You may give copies to friends on disk, providing ALL the files originally included in this archive, unaltered (including the file you are reading) are included. The included versions of these two fonts are intended ONLY for users of Compuserve; you may not upload these fonts to any other computing services or bulletin boards or otherwise make them available to non-users of Compuserve. Commercial and non-commercial distribution of any kind is absolutely prohibited, without exception. Any distribution of ANY sort outside of the United States and Canada is prohibited, without exception. The font formats and platforms supported are TrueType and PostScript Type 1 in Macintosh and PC format; all other formats and platforms are unsupported, and you may not convert them to those formats or platforms without the permission of the copyright holder. The IBM PC versions of these fonts were tested and tweaked by your advocate, Eileen Wharmby.

INFO: Now that the obnoxious TERMS are out of the way, it's time to find out that both of the included fonts are named after Dieter Christensen, a colleague of mine at Columbia University whose specialty is ethnomusicology (one of a very few colleagues who can make a two-hour faculty meeting feel like two hours instead of two weeks). I've made this package a Christmas present to my almost-as-odd-as-I-am colleages on Compuserve's DTPFORUM in opposition to my pledge not to make any more shareware fonts (at least three companies are making money on various shareware fonts of mine without compensation in my direction), because they're a fun bunch of people.

CAVEAT: Christensen-Caps is one complicated font. Using it excessively on a PostScript printer may serve as an ipecac to your printer. I have successfully printed the whole Christensen alphabet on my NEC 300 dpi PostScript printer at 48 points; at 72 points I can print 13 characters before the printer barfs; at 90 points, I can print only 6 or 7 characters. So, as with all drop caps alphabets, USE CHRISTENSEN-CAPS SPARINGLY. Christensen TrueType gives me no problems at any size (up to 2,000 points) in System 7, but I have not tried printing with the TrueType version.

NOTE: As usual, Christensen-Caps and Dieter-Caps come to you from Insect Bytes, where we haven't seen the sun for more than a week now, although the stars were great last Friday night and we spent some time trying to figure out which end was Orion's head and which end was Orion's feet. We can't see Orion in the summer. You can find us on e-mail at 73240,3060 on Compuserve, or on the Internet (watch this:) at 73240.3060@compuserve.com.

Eileen's Note:You might find it helpful in working with the TT versions of these fonts (and indeed any other complex TT fonts) if you edit the [TrueType] section of your WIN.INI to include the line: outlinethreshold=70.