[futurebasic] the "3" in FutureBasic^3

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From: Michael S Kluskens <mkluskens@...>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:20:48 -0500
I wish to build an About Box picture using a 3 like Staz used in the 
default About Box, but I've haven't identified a font that actually 
has it among the ones I have access to.  It appears Geneva 
(italicized) would work, but only up to 14 point (bit maps change 
after that and it's not in the TrueType font that way), when I try to 
use it in any of the graphics programs I have I get the plain old 
rounded three.  I have access to the fonts with Adobe Illustrator 7.0 
(as well as 6.0 and 5.5) but nothing there seems to come close (could 
have missed one or two).  I tried tracing Staz's 3 and importing the 
tracing into Strata 3D but I had problems with the result.  This 
looked like such a simple project went I started and now it bugs me 
that I haven't found a solution.

I might not have all of Apple's fonts installed, especially the old 
GX fonts.  I went back and got Skia because someone was using it on 
their web site, but I wasn't looking for the three back then.


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Michael Kluskens <mkluskens@...>