Almost Swiss OS/2 Bitmap Font
Version 1.1

  Almost Swiss is an OS/2 sans-serif bitmap font designed to be suitable for 
  program screen text at higher resolutions.  It is particularly well-suited
  for use in lists, tables, and container controls.

  Almost Swiss was inspired by the 8-point size of the system font "Helv" (or
  "Swiss"), which in turn is a loose rasterized adaptation of Helvetica.  The 
  problem with Helv is that point sizes above 10 (or above 8 at 120 dpi) use
  very heavy strokes, which results in a quite different visual style.
  Consequently, Almost Swiss was created to fulfill a desire for larger sizes 
  in the lighter Helv/Swiss style.

  The above notwithstanding, version 1.1 introduces an extra weight, "Almost 
  Swiss Medium", at the 11 and 12 point sizes.  This is slightly darker than 
  the standard (light) weight, and is provided mainly for the benefit of people
  who run very high resolution screens and want something that looks a bit more
  substantial.  


Installation

  Extract (unzip) ALMSWISS.FON from the distribution package.

  If this is your first time installing Almost Swiss, use the Font Palette 
  (choose 'Edit', then 'Add', and type in the name of the temporary directory
  where you placed the file ALMSWISS.FON).

  IMPORTANT: If you have an old version of Almost Swiss installed, the file
  will be "locked" by PMSHELL, meaning that you cannot simply copy the new 
  file over the old one.

  To replace a previously-installed version, you must either:
   - Unlock the file ALMSWISS.FON using a tool like REPLMOD or UNLOCK (the
     latter is part of the LXLite package and is installed by default in 
     eComStation 2.x).
   - Boot to a command prompt, separate maintenance system, or boot CD and
     replace the file from there.


Supported Characters/Codepages

  All sizes of Almost Swiss support the following EUGL characters sets: Latin-1,
  Latin-2, PC Extended, Cyrillic, Baltic, Hebrew (including cantillation marks 
  and Yiddish), Greek, Arabic, Halfwidth Kana (Japanese) and Thai.


Terms of Use

  Almost Swiss may be freely used, redistributed, and/or modified, by any
  individual, group or organization, for any purpose.

  (C) 2008-2019 Alexander Taylor
  http://www.altsan.org
