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VIC Font?

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I'm looking for a TrueType font to use in some documentation, there was a thread in 2008

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... php?t=2761

but I don't seem to be able to find a download. I started using Pet Me X2 until I realized it doesn't actually have Commodore glyphs.
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Odd, I just recently downloaded PetMe by Rebecca Bettencourt and it has every font symbol you could wish for.
Perhaps you got a fake?
Try getting them from here:
http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/index.shtml
PetMe has standard square characters and PetMe2x has double width characters.
Open them up in Character Map and you'll see they have hundreds of glyphs.
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thanks for sharing this!!! great collection of fonts for sure.
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Kweepa wrote: PetMe has standard square characters and PetMe2x has double width characters.
Open them up in Character Map and you'll see they have hundreds of glyphs.
Ah, I wasn't looking properly. Everything I want is in Other, Private Use Area (at least that's where it's to be found on Linux).
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How annoying, LibreOffice doesn't seem to render this set of glyphs at all. They're fine in other applications though.
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Amusing font set, but it seems to me that once again the VIC characters have wrong proportions. The "40columns" are (obviously) too narrow, but in turn the "20columns" look a bit too large IMHO.

I think I remember reading somewhere that emulators like VICE don't have the correct screen proportions, and as a result the characters are more "flat" than on a hardware VIC20. Should this be true, I wonder if these fonts have been created by sampling the charset using characters displayed on screen by VICE.
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With newer VICE incarnations, you can easily adjust the aspect ratio to better fit your needs, and respect the original values (see HERE) :wink:. These characters were sampled from an incorrect ratio IMO.
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Exactly, that's most probably the thread where my sentiments about this issue were first confirmed by figures! Thanks for linking!

As a side note, I believe the character ratio of these fonts can be adjusted on Microsoft Word by going to the CHARACTER menu, SPACING AND POSITION tab, and by typing into the PROPORTION % field an appropriate figure (by trial & error :mrgreen: ).
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These are generated from Pet (hence "Pet Me") and C64 ROM images, I believe. No sampling or scaling (well, except the 20/80 column versions).
I would rather it this way, because as you point out, you can just scale the text to your heart's desire.
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