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TeX is VERY popular in the scientific, especially the mathematical community. At the Caltech math dept. we consciously decided not to use it after observing that in many places the result of switching to TeX was that faculty typed their own papers. So we use a WYSIWYG scientific word processor…
welcome to our forum Perry. For the benefit of any amiga users here who may not know Perry is the author of CYGNUSED for the amiga. His company ASDG makes both sotware and hardware for the Amiga computer system. Included in this are multi-serial boards, scanning software for use on…
Barry, PixelScript will let you use type 3 PostScript fonts (for example, our Pixelations' PostScript Series fonts), and EPS clip art. Also, I have heard that ProPage doesn't do landscape with the CG fonts. Of course, PixelScript prints at your printer resolution. Justin
All manuals for our hardware and software products are typeset in TeX using AmigaTeX by Radical Eye Software. This implementation, I am told, is one of the better TeX implementations on any computer. Not having used any other TeX, I cannot comment on this opinion (except to say that AmigaTeX…
Mike, Let me know how it comes out. I know one guy who tried the same thing but couldn't get it to work. You'll also need to worry about the bitmaps. Despite Display PostScript, NeXT does rely on bitmaps for small point sizes (a la ATM).
Thom – Hmmmmmmmmmm … could be. -Tom-
#TeX, anyone?
Message #6503
Is there anyone out there who uses TeX for typography? There must be. Who are you? Where are you? What do you do? Is there enough interest for a forum?
From:
Thom Hartmann <HiResOp>
Desktop Publishing Forum
· Other DTP Systems
January 28, 1990 12:46 AM
Mike, I just got one of those "forehead slaps" as Lamar refers to them… Do you think it's possible that even a small part of the MS/Apple Royal collaboration was an effort to head off NeXT (which is PostScript-based)? –Thom
I thought I read somewhere that BusinessLand was being set-up to distribute software for the next. Bring in a CD-ROM, buy the program, and copy it from their machines right in the store.
From:
Mike Musick/Ass't Sysop
Desktop Publishing Forum
· Other DTP Systems
January 28, 1990 12:16 AM
(Excuse the lapse, David – busy, busy week.) The impression I've gotten is the NeXT has quietly abandoned the idea of using the optical disk as the sole mass-storage device. The idea was initially a good one, but the realities of the sub-par seek times eventually overcame the most optimistic…
#Amiga/Mac conversions
Message #6402
JUSTIN, What is the difference between Pixelscript and the dot matrix support that my version of ProPage offers? I am currently able to output dot matrix comps to check type, alignment, and overall look…. -Barry
How hard is it to remove/replace the optical disk in the NeXT? And how expensive is it to have a backup on hand when your other disk is at the SB for output? And how do you back up your optical disk to another optical disk before you send it…
One small consolation to supporting NeXT at your shop is that, at least for the short term, you know that you have all the fonts. All four of them.
From:
Mike Musick/Ass't Sysop
Desktop Publishing Forum
· Other DTP Systems
January 21, 1990 11:52 AM
[continued] as a combination of Quark XPress, PageMaker and Ventura, with certain features (and liabilities) of all three. FrameMaker NeXT is a port from other UNIX workstations and it seems to be powerful enough to be a contender now, but the subsequent version – already implemented on the generic UNIX…
#What's NeXT?
Message #5771
From:
Mike Musick/Ass't Sysop
Desktop Publishing Forum
· Other DTP Systems
January 21, 1990 11:52 AM
David – Answering some of your specific questions: Yes, the question of getting data on/off the NeXT in a _convenient_ form is still a bit fuzzy. I hear a number of schools of thought on this, but the strongest seem to be 1) "Once quantity production gears-up, single blank optical…