
Middleton
from
Penguin Productions
A freeware effort by Jonathan Hodges

Hi!

This is an updated version of Middleton, a freeware typeface available to the DTP 
community. Changes in version 1.1 are:

1. Accented characters are now composites, which significantly reduces the size of the 
font.
2. The cent sign, which had a winding problem which several people pointed out to me, 
has been properly rendered.
3. The word space, which people have also complained was too small, has been slightly 
enlarged. However, because this is a display face designed for large pointsizes, the 
wordspace is still substantially tighter than fonts from other commercial vendors like Adobe 
or Bitstream.
4. The register and trademarks have been shrunk to proper size.

This is the PostScript version for the PC (a TrueType version is also available). I don't 
know too much about the PC, so please bear with me. This font was generated on the Mac 
using Altsys' Fontographer 3.5.1. If you run into problems, let me know and I'll see if I 
can get them fixed.

Files included in this upload are:
Mi______.PFB	For use with ATM & Windows
Mi______.PFM	For use with ATM & Windows
Mi______.INF	For use with Adobe Type Foundry
Mi______.CFG	For use with Adobe Type Foundry
Mi______.AFM	Metric Info in ASCII form
READ.ME		The file you are reading

Middleton is an unabashed knockoff of Florentine, a display face created by R. Hunter 
Middleton, the former director of type design for Ludlow. During his lifetime, Middleton 
created some 90 faces primarily for the advertising community, including the popular font 
family Radiant and the first true serif/sans serif hybrid, Stellar. As far as I have been able to 
determine. Florentine is a registered trademark of T.J. Lyons, which in turn has licensed 
the face to a variety of vendors such as Linotype and VGC, although none of them have 
released it in PostScript format.

Middleton is freeware although the following restrictions apply to its distribution: this font 
can be freely passed along to other users as long as it containes all files, including this 
READ.ME message. On CompuServe, Middleton is available on the DTPFORUM 
exclusively. Other bulletin boards wishing to upload the font should contact me for 
permission.
 
It is NOT to be included on shareware collections sold for profit. I  dislike seeing my work 
lumped in with sales pitches that promise "Over 200 megs of fonts!"

I don't have a huge legal staff, but please respect my wishes. This font is intended to be 
shared among the telecommunicating typesetting community -- primarily those who also 
give, either of their programming or design talents, their knowledge or simply their 
sympathy when someone encounters a print production problem not easily solved from the 
desktop.

Back to business. Middleton includes some very nice alternate characters. Since I don't 
have a PC running Windows, I have no idea how they are accessed, but if everything went 
well you should be able to locate in the character set the following alternates (A, B, E, F, 
M, N, O, P, R, S, e, o, and y). There's also an open ballot box and Brad the Wonder 
Penguin kicking around the font.

According to documentation from Altsys, you load the font as follows:
In Windows 3.x, launch ATM 1.x and click on the Add... button. Chose the appropriate 
drive and/or directory to locate the font files. ATM 1.x will install the font in the default 
directories (\PSFONTS for the outline and PSFONTS\PFM for the metric file). 
Theoretically, ATM should automatically edit your WIN.INI file to include the font.

Now open up the WIN.INI file and adjust the softfont line. It should look something like:
softfont5=c:\psfonts\pfm\Mi______.PFM

Change the line to read:
softfont5=c:\psfonts\pfm\Mi______.PFM,c:\psfonts\Mi______.PFB

That should do it. ATM 2.0 loads similarly, but you don't have to horse around with the 
WIN.INI file.

I assume the Ventura/GEM crowd know what they're doing ('cause I certainly don't -- 
apparently the .pfb file gets renamed to a .pfa extension, dumped into the font folder and 
then uyou se the Ventura AFMTOVFM.EXE to convert the .afm file).
 
Come on guys, get a Mac! <grin>

I have no idea what the story is the the .cfg and .inf files. Hopefully, if you need them, you 
know what to do with them.

Again, my apologies for my PC ignorance. I'm hoping John Cornicello, PC sysop on 
Compuserve's DTPFORUM, will sort some of this out. If he does, my thanks to him. If 
not, he is definitely not to blame.

Middleton is released in memory of Michael DeCrescente, the former general manager of 
Characters Typographical Services, Inc., who died of cancer in 1989. A contribution to the 
American Cancer Society is always appreciated.

Notification of any  problems with the font or requests for its upload on other bulletin 
boards can be made to:

Jonathan Hodges
Penguin Productions
61 Winchester Road
Ronkonkoma, New York 11779
CIS #76276,3102

