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#77322-AI EPS in Mac Word?
Message #77330
Try setting the zero, zero point in the AI ruler to be the upper-left corner of the graphic and/or the lower-left. Brian
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PC to Mac Type 1
Message #68525
I've got piles of public domain Type 1 and Truetype fonts for the PC. I'd like to use them on my Mac. I've heard about programs such as Fontographer, Metamorphosis, FontMonger, etc. I have a font-savvy, Mac-savvy friend who has these, but he doesn't know the black magic to get…
#47977-Standalone PS?
Message #48015
I understand that the PostScript might actually get generated by some other part of the operating system, and not Word itself, but that isn't at the heart of the problem, is it? When you say there's "a general problem with S7's creation of PS file," are you describing a bug…
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#47900-#Standalone PS?
Message #47903
But Word prints the document without trouble when I say "Print". Wouldn't PrintMonitor complain about an error in the PostScript? Obviously, my document prints… so I don't think it's sending bad PostScript. I discovered my problem with the LW alias: I moved the real file to the System folder and…
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#47820-Standalone PS?
Message #47900
Dear Syndesis It seems like Word is creating a corrupted PS file. To use SendPS under System 7, you have to move the LW drive from Extensions folder and place it loose in the System folder. Try using FontDownloader instead of SendPS under System 7. Michael Sh
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#47820-Standalone PS?
Message #47864
Did I mention that the file prints fine under Word's control, and through the PrintMonitor on the Mac. When I copy the file to the same laser printer, it always comes up with this same error. Next, I figured out how to make SendPS work under S7, which was to…
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Standalone PS?
Message #47820
I'm using Word 4.0 under System 7. I printed a document to disk as PostScript. I moved it to a second machine and sent it over the serial port to my PostScript laser, a QMS-410. After a while, it returned an error stating that "ok" is an undefined command. Looking…
Illustrator deficiency
Message #13438
First of I'd like to thank you for producing an outstanding tool for newspaper artists. Now, while you are most surely working on an improved version of Illustrator I am hoping that you have already thought of the "improvements" I am suggesting and that you may disregard this "wish List."…
Great Job in DC!!
Message #13437
Imprints, one of Washington, DC's premier Macintosh service bureaus, is in need of a General Manager to oversee operation of business. This person will be responsible for overall management of daily operations, including marketing, personnel, production and quality assurance. Staff includes Production Manager, two Production Assistants, Graphic Designer, Receptionist, and…
#13196-Job Possibility
Message #13436
Jon: The job is as follows: Imprints, one of Washington, DC's premier Macintosh service bureaus, is in need of a General Manager to oversee operation of business. This person will be responsible for overall management of daily operations, including marketing, personnel, production and quality assurance. Staff includes Production Manager, two…
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#13429-Royal Fonts
Message #13435
The Apple "Royal" font format uses a somewhat simpler mathematical description of character shapes (quadratics) than PostScript's Bezier equations. This requires more control points to produce the sorts of continuously varying curves that make up real characters, but Apple claims that the simpler computation of their font format will result…
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ADVERTISING
Message #13434
No word recently; you'll be one of the first to know!
#13430-GoScript/BlasterBoard
Message #13433
Will, Haven't ever used the BlasterBoard, but I have used GoScript. It likes memory (you need an additional 1 meg in the HP, and it hogs almost all of the 640K in your computer), but other than that, it's okay. About three months ago PC Mag did a story on…
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#13423-Feature Sought
Message #13432
Carl– It's true that PS files become awfully large and unwieldy, but a quick, relatively low-tech method we often suggest to our customers is to a) use an archiving utility like StuffIt or ARC to compress the file; b) use your operating system's Backup utility (BACKUP.COM in DOS or HDBackup…
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#13372-Type 1 Specs
Message #13431
Earl- You make this MS-Apple font/PDL scenario sound like a good thing. I suspect Mike's analysis is more accurate: it's a political move, almost purely a market-share grab on Apple's part. Keep in mind that Adobe (and ALTSYS, I imagine) is still run by visionary types. But Apple is a…
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#GoScript/BlasterBoard
Message #13430
Does anyone here have experience with a Postscript compatible interpreter called GoScript? How good is it? There is a product called a BlasterBoard that goes in a PC and connects to a HP Laserjet to give you Postscript on what would otherwise not be a Postscript compatible printer. Has anyone…
#Royal Fonts
Message #13429
Hi Steve After the Seybold Conference we are back in Switzerland. And the discussion about the annoncements on Seybold continues in our seminars… We are a little bit angry about the impacts of the MS-Apple "Royal" fonts and an eventually different Bauer PDL on high-resolution image setters. But unfortunatly we…
#13405-Type 1 Specs
Message #13428
You've kinda stumbled into the other part of the motivation for Apple/Microsoft alliance (other than "squash Adobe"). If Apple did a proprietary PDL, it wouldn't go beyond Apple hardware. Same for Microsoft, whose market is deeply rooted in 80×86 (MS-DOS, OS/2). The "generalist" vendors such as Linotype, QMS, et al,…
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#13423-Feature Sought
Message #13427
If you have a large file that won't fit in its source form onto a single diskette, you could print it to several PostScript files, choosing a range of pages each time. This way, you could have whatever size of file you (and your service bureau) prefer without having to…
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#13401-Type 1 Specs
Message #13426
Don't worry unnecessarily. There has been no promise–or even implied promise–of any changes to PostScript that would affect your ability to produce an image on your LaserWriter IINT that will correspond to the output of any other PostScript imagesetter. Indeed, Adobe has been quite insistent that PostScript will remain a…
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#13417-Long pages
Message #13425
Thanks 1,000,000 for the info on the QMS Postscript printer. It sounds exactly like what I am looking for.
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Good fonts
Message #13424
I've been thrashing around Form & Function and the DTP magazines/books now that I have a Deskwriter and expect to be using ATM, looking for good fonts, and come across many conflicts. Caslon is either wonderful or a collection of mistakes. Optima, is a great favorite of some Laserwriter users…
#13420-#Feature Sought
Message #13423
Steve- It's true that a lot of bureaus prefer a postscript file… I don't know about a PS file ENSURING that the output will match that of our printer… but in any case, that's another story. While PS files may be prefered… they are far from convenient, due to their…
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#13415-Feature Sought
Message #13422
Nathan- I'll try DLing the Illustrator PS document… but I really don't think it will work. I don't know if it's a result of the configuration of our system or what… but I'm quite sure that our Illustrator documents do not print properly without the screen font being loaded and…
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#13376-AFM to WID
Message #13421
Nancy- I see I really don't need AFM files. The VFM files are easily editable. No problem. I know I shouldn't've had to ask, but your prompt reply was a pleasure to receive. I wonder why the Pa, Pe and Po combos aren't in the kerning tables. Have you ever…
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#13387-#Feature Sought
Message #13420
Thanks, Carl, We have PSFontFinder. Nice little tool. You don't have to throw away the PostScript file. Many service bureaus (ours included) prefer PostScript disk files because it ensures that the output will match that of your printer. ^Steve^
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crS
Message #13419
I got the disk you sent me with the Helvetica Narrow screen fonts. Unfortunately, you apparently sent me a Macintosh disk when what I need is the PC (Windows) screen fonts (.FON file). If you have a .FON file (and .PFM file) for the Helv Narrow font, please send me…
#13385-#Long pages
Message #13417
George! Hang on a second… Not but this afternoon (yes, on a Saturday…) was I reminded by my QMS rep about a printer that I've known about for a while but is only recently shipping in volume – the QMS PS-2200. It is 300 dpi, and readily handles 11×17. The…
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#13233-#NFNT/Suitcase
Message #13416
One should also note that MasterJuggler 1.5 will automatically resolve the second order NFNT number conflicts dynamically. That is, as long as the FONTs are properly different, the NFNT numbers are reordered in memory by MJ, and conflicts of the type you have described will not occur.
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#13406-#Feature Sought
Message #13415
No. Again: Illustrator documents, be it 88 or otherwise, has the printer name in the file. You could actually download the Adobe file itself to the PS printer (providing the origin was placed properly and that you had appended 'showpage' at the end) and everything would be perfect (and a…
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#13401-Type 1 Specs
Message #13414
Important to remember, though, that changes to PostScript from Adobe are merely enhancements for speed improvement and device specific things such as halftoning accuracy/speed. Any increment to the PostScript version will never make the RED book obsolete, nor any printer adhering to at least version 23.0 obsolete (the version of…
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#13408-IBM AFM files
Message #13413
The file ADOBE.DIR in download lib #1 will give you a list of everything in all the DLs of this forum.
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#13378-Benguiat & good type
Message #13412
I'm a print media consultant. You might say that I'm the David Garth of print. Most recent campaign was a council race (primary) in NYC in September. I concentrate on my clients' communications (i.e., what they should say, who they should say it to, how they should say it), rather…
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#13366-goodtype
Message #13411
I love your definition of good type. BTW, our favorite phrase around the shop these days is: "We're just whores for typography!"
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#13377-Using Type
Message #13410
Well, let's hope the folks at Adobe and Aldus are listening … I tried tinkering with the wordspace values in Xpress with similarly bad results. However, it *is* possible to set up an alternate H&J definition and apply that to an individual paragraph (or style) in Xpress. It's still clunky,…
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#13392-Feature Sought
Message #13409
With Xpress, it's hard to tell … I've had files that blew up as soon as I opened them on the Mac. Could it be the customer had set the file up to download fonts? I've noticed when TOPS tries to download a font when it's already on the hard…
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#IBM AFM files
Message #13408
I am still looking for IBM AFM files for Palatino, New Century, Bookman, Zapf and Avant Garde… the F-AFM.IBM file says they are available, but I can't find them here. Am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks.
Postscript->EPS
Message #13407
Somewhere I saw that with a few modifications of a pure postscript plot file from Autocad, it could be converted to an EPS format file, so it can be placed into Adobe Illustrator. Does anybody know what these commands are? I tryed placing the postscript plot file into Illustrator and…
#13397-#Feature Sought
Message #13406
Nathan- Doesn't Seperator call upon DL fonts as well? -Carl
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#13391-#Type 1 Specs
Message #13405
It's ironic to me that _Apple_ should go after another company because they a) keep their technology proprietary and b) charge outrageous prices. Can you foresee the day when Apple finds itself in Adobe's boat against someone else for the same reasons? I can. Regards – Jay
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#13390-ADVERTISING
Message #13404
Boy, Mike, you sure said that well! I can only add: "Amen!"
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#13374-PostScript Help!?!?!
Message #13403
I haven't looked at the blue book code for some time, but if it's doing what you want within a single job and not remaining available until printer shutdown or reset you can precede it with "serverdict begin 0 exitserver" to make the code resident.
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#13385-Long pages
Message #13402
Yes, there is a venerable old printer called the VT600W, made by Varityper, which will print 11×17, and at 600dpi to boot. The downside is that it costs $22,000, and its old-technology engine literally requires monthly service. It may be heresy to mention, and I'm not predisposed to recommend clones,…
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#13362-#Type 1 Specs
Message #13401
Steve, Nathan, Stephen, Thanks. When I bought my LWII NT I really only wanted a proof press before going to Lino. I didn't worry too much at the time about upgrades but thought I could rely on the machine as conforming to an industry-wide standard PDL. I couldn't afford a…
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#13277-Type 1 Specs
Message #13400
You're right, I've been absolutely selfish about this. I haven't heard a word about where *I* can find out about Royal fonts. However, I've been able to buy PostScript books at any computer bookstore I've entered. Must I be a million-dollar RIP maker to find out about the Microsoft/Royal fonts?…
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24 bit upgrade
Message #13399
I recently installed the new RasterOps (24-bit) Colorboard 264 which is causing Illustrator88 1.8.3 to freeze up. RasterOps support says it is the 32 bit Quickdraw init which is giving I88 the trouble. They said there was an I88 1.8.9 available to fix the problem. Is this true, and how…
#13365-#postscript code (13249)
Message #13398
Why are you using a PC anyway? Mac is better.
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#13386-Feature Sought
Message #13397
What you could try is to print Illustrator documents using the Adobe Separator utility. Unless your customers have a tendency to leave scattered art all over the page.
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#13371-Type 1 Specs
Message #13396
This anti-aliasing, if it could be called that with 1 bit pixels, seems logical but would take an astronimcal amount of calculations comparatively.
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