Re: Monotype Fonts?

[Steve Rickaby <srickaby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:42 pm -0700 7/4/04, Karl Schmidtmann wrote:

> Any recommendations for a monotype font to use to represent screenshots of
> text from a terminal? The output will be PDF, so I would think it would have
> to be a PostScript font that allows embedding in a PDF.

I presume you mean 'monospace' and not 'monotype'? Anyway, a 
non-proportional font.

Yes. Books I work with use the following alternatives to Courier or 
Courier New, mainly for sections of source code:

. LetterGothic 12Pitch BT

. Monspace821 BT

The latter is particularly pleasant, imho. It's available from Bitstream.

I think you will find that all the major font suppliers can supply 
any font in either TrueType or PostScript Type 1. The supply of 
OpenType fonts is more limited, but is increasing. If you have the 
option of OpenType, it's probably worth going for, as the fonts are 
so much more versatile, and often much better value, as they include 
glyphs and expert sets (although that's less relevant for a monospace 
font).
--
Steve

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