This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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The problem involves the mass-selection of all graphic elements, followed by de-selection of a few elements, and finally followed by attempts to copy the selected elements. Under certain circumstances this results in a lock-up, return to DOS, or the famous "SORRY" message from VP. Bryan
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Illustrator
Message #3458
A very nice pen that can perform some of the functions of a Rapidograph without (most of) the headaches is the Pentel Ceramicron, which is apparently made by Kyocera. It has a ceramic tip, and comes in 0.3 and 0.5mm diameters. The entire ink cartridge and tip are a single…
Jonathan, It looks like you and I are in the same game. I make my (very good) living at writing technical manuals for Silicon Valley high-technology companies and also have aspirations to write fiction! I know very well of the "other" fiction that you mentioned—it's all too prevalent in this…
Eli, We're on the same side of this one, too. I have been using Ventura for publication of complex technical manuals (with lots of illustrations) and find that it is FAST, Comprehensive and produces great camera-ready copy on a PostScript printer (Apple LaserWriter Plus, in my case). As far ahead…
Illustrator
Message #3455
Do you have any idea when Illustrator will be available for the PC/XT/AT I currently use Ventura at work with several added ADOBE FONTS… I also do some RAW Postscript programing
Screen Fonts
Message #3454
Now that I have the screen fonts I need I realized that my system An AT with Intel Inboard 386 running windows 386 may well either not work with the fonts or they may need to be newfonted by the 386 program which converts old screen screen fonts to the…
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#Publisher's Type Foundry
Message #3453
What am I writing for these days? Money, mainly. I'm so busy doing manuals for clients that I don't have time for much else. I've done a couple of things for Borland's new house publication, _Turbo_Technix_, and will probably do more. Apart from that, my main ambition is to find…
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#Ventura Pub. NEW UPGRADE
Message #3452
Just what was your problem? I've noticed the graphics boxes have pretty sorry-looking corners.
Steve — Having tried both, I think Ventura is by far the superior package. There is little you can do with PageMaker that you can't do in Ventura — and alot you can do in Ventura that you can't do in PageMaker. Ventura, which uses Gem instead of Windows, if…
#Pagemaker vs Ventura
Message #3450
I would appreciate your advice as to which PDL to purchase: Pagemaker vs Ventura. I own an AT&T 6300 Plus (286) with EGA board. Currently with no mouse. I would use it primarily to make posters and short newsletters, publications of less than five pages. Thanks for your advice. Steve
Screen fonts
Message #3449
Yes, I know you've probably heard this one before: But how do I get Adobe screen fonts for the standard LaserWriterPlus (NT) faces in their bold-italic, and so forth variations? And do you sell the screen fonts for some of your typefaces seperately from the PS downloadable fonts, for those…
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There is a program that will make a postscript printer emulate a normal character printer in the download section of this forum. All output could also be redirected to a file, and that could be printed by running it through a filter to print it from DOS. You can get…
#Dbase III+ & PS
Message #3446
At work we just received a NEC LC890 Silentwriter that uses the postscript language. I would like to print items on the NEC from within a Dbase III+ application of from DOS. I know the NEC can be set up to emulate a HP Laserjet but for our application we…
#PD PostScript
Message #3445
In the past six months, I remember reading a magazine article that described a public domain implementation of a PostScript interpreter that came from the University of Tokyo. It was a subset, not a full implementation. Chances are, this was reported in a PC developer or C magazine. Does this…
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Encapsulated PostScript
Message #2431
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Zeus.arc
Message #110354
Ralph, what are you using to display the animation? It requires SHowAnim4.0 or older (current is 4.0). It was first uploaded as an LMV file, but was soon converted to ANIM format. If it's all one file, then it's in ANIM format. You may try to set you stack to…
Amiga fixed!
Message #110351
You might recall that I was having a problem with the -12v supply for my Amiga 500. Well, I found the problem! I opened the connector leading from the power supply and found a big blob of solder between the -12v pin and the signal ground pin. This would cause…
Amiga Animation
Message #110347
Hi Marlene, My name is Joe Lewis, I represent Chromastar productions and we are currently engaged in using the Amiga as a computer animatics tool for our video productions. We are putting together several tapes which require professional quality animation and titles. I am trying to find someone with knowledge…
I don't know if I've just been complimented or insulted.
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Hard errors?
Message #110319
Calm down. If you used a Mac much, you'd know that there's nearly always the hot-key combination of COMMAND-SHIFT-1 and COMMAND-SHIFT-2 to eject either floppy 1 or 2, and COMMAND-E to eject the currently selected disk on the desktop. What you blame Apple for as "arrogance" is actually a noble…
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#What goes where?
Message #110297
I think you're a prime example of *why* goto operations should be dropped as an obsolete AND bad thing – like paper tape. –Ben–
If you have a program that supports EPS input, then you can print it on a PS printer. E.g. Ventura allows for EPS files. Simply import it like any other file into a frame (there are selections available in the import window for EPS). EPS shows up like an "X"…
Since you have Sculpt 3D, Animate 3D would be very usefull. It adds motion to your objects, as well as some other goodies. Since I do not have Animate at this time, I cannot comment any further. I do however have Silver. Silver lacks a fantastic object editor, but makes…
#Viruses…
Message #110288
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!! etc. Hello Amigas and Amigos. This is . THIS IS NO JOKE, PLEASE TAKE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE SERIOUS!!! It's my sad duty to report to you guys/gals in the U.S. that there is a new virus present on the Amiga. This $%&*# thing is NO…
#RAY-ANIMATE
Message #110251
Dear G.T.- I've got Sculpt and I'm considering Animate from Byte BY Byte. Before I purchase, I thought I'd ask; How does Silver compare? Other packages? Does anyone allow text as well as graphic input in the obj. editer? Does Silver write to the 020-881 upgrade boards? Mimetics 24 bit…
converting image formats
Message #110237
A question, has anyone found an elegant (and fast) method for converting the Amiga's bitplane format to a nice pixel per byte form for quantitative processing? My own shift and OR code is moderately fast for C and 68000 but I keep wondering about the PixMate "Hyper-Slice" technology …
source version control
Message #110236
Does anyone know of a source code version control package for the amiga? I'm not looking for SCCS or RCS but I would find something that kept track of a simple sequence of version numbers (1, 2, 3, …), dates, and comments very useful. Most of the bits are around,…
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What goes where?
Message #110202
I use GOTOs for one thing, error handling. Algorithms that are improved with a GOTO are rare, but not extinct. I have lots of GOTOs in InterChange, one in every function, almost. I have an error-handling label within each function called 'out', and if something fails along the way, I…
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Encapsulated PostScript
Message #2324
What is Encapsulated PostScript? From every reference I've seen to it, it looks it's being used as a structured graphic standard file format. I know what PostScript is. Is EP tokenized or compressed PostScript, or is it just a defined subset of PostScript commands?
#VENTURA POSTSCRIPT FILES
Message #2066
Eli: You are correct. The manual does say that the DTR setting will remain until reset by another program. However, it is rather vague about whether this means that it w^C to do
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