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"$300 is NOT cheap if you've already purchased the fonts when you bought your laserwriter." Well, Look at it this way: The "Plus Pack" fonts, if purchased separately, would run $885 (retail). Yes, the very same fonts are built into the ROM of your PostScript LaserWriter, but you did not…
#PostScript from Comnd-K
Message #13169
PageMaker (or any application, for that matter) can get picky about what fonts are used in placed graphics. Since you are creating your "own" format EPS graphic, PageMaker may not be able to extract the font usage info from the file. Try this: make sure to specify at least ONE…
#ATM
Message #13168
Well, my calculations run closer to 25-30 megabytes – that's with ALL of the Adobe screen AND printer fonts installed on a Hard Disk. Currently, printer fonts take up more room than (uncompressed) screen fonts, and the entire Adobe library of screen fonts thru pkg 85 runs 10 MB uncompressed,…
Adobe's alread announced that they will NOT be offering an "easy" way of converting Apple's Royal fonts into PostScript (a turnaround from their position last May). If Apple's going to play dirty, then Adobe's not going to make Apple's life any easier.
John Warnock seems to be the one in all this who is trying to "do the right thing"…he knows that if he doesn't open up "true" Adobe PostScript, the whole page description arena will go to hell, with infighting, hundreds of standards, and nobody winning in the end. PostScript is…
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PostScript from Comnd-K
Message #12958
Command-K will include all the "additional" information that LaserPrep send to the printer with any job, including actual PostScript font data. However………. This will only work IF you have the required POSTCRIPT PRINTER FONT in your own System folder. I dno't know of any way to direct where the "PostScript…
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ATM -vs- System 7
Message #12956
"How about bundling together ATM and the Plus Pack for less?" –Geez, I think that $300 bucks for 31 downloadable PostScript typefaces AND the ability to see them on-screen at any size is pretty darn cheap. In my mind, ATM is destined to become the type of utility that Suitcase…
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#Benguiat & good type
Message #12954
I spent a good chunk of time in 'Frisco at a PPA tech committee meting, and KERNING (+ other major typographic points) was on everybody's minds. While the programmers are likely going to make their products more functional, it's probably going to be up to us poor schmucks who set…
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#SEYBOLD
Message #12951
The OVERPRINT command in Illustrator will ONLY work on a separation…when you Preview or print the image (on a color printer), any "overprinted" objects will be opaque (like normal). The fact is that PostScript (the language, that is) doesn't support transparent color; when you fill/stroke something, it completely covers whatever…
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#SEYBOLD
Message #12941
Warnock's annoucement was fantastic and exasperating at the same time (fantastic 'cuz it means type 1 fonts will become a real standard, exasperating because I had to completely change the "Font Wars" presentation I gave Saturday to the PPA). The announcement caught everybody off guard (at least a little). I'd…
I haven't got a line on Taylored Graphics, but I have had the chance ot use FontLiner…works great! It takes your PostScript Font & converts it to an Adobe Illustrator file, as individually grouped drawings, just like the "clip art" alphabets that Adobe released themselves with their Collectors Edition One.…
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More Adobe NFNTs
Message #6904
The ResEdit manual I got is about 50 pages long…I wouldn't call it extensive, but it does cover basic operation. Of course, it assumes you know what you're supposed to be doing in the first place (knowing what each of the resources are, for example). -Scott Leyes
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When I say "painstakingly calibrated", I mea that you need to have the Linotronic service reps to a precise densitometer testing on your machine when you get it. I don't know all the details, but the exposure settings on a Lino can change/degrade over time, due to shipping, etc. Also,…
Inside Macintosh Vol.5 mentions that the largest practical size for a screen font in the 128K ROMS (Mac Plus) is 127 pt.; and that the Mac II ROM limits the largest practical size to "about 255 points". I don't know where the Mac SE fits in (256K ROM, but not…
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I DO have a ResEdit manual… I don't know about #2 of your Msg, but #1 is essentially accurate. Here's why: Holding own the "option" key is the same as choosing "Open general" from the file menu (that is, when you hold down the optionKey & doubleclick on a resource…
Both Quark XPress 2.0 and ImageStudio 1.5 offer the option of using an eliptical dot screen; ImageStudio offers several options, and will even let you modify the PostScript code used to generate the haftone cells and save it as a custom screen (rings, squares, bowties & more are included). -Scott…
How to avoid Moire patterns in process color separations? Put simply, one doesn't. I assume you are using Adobe Separator to do the color separations…if this is the case, then AS is calculating all of the rotations, etc automatically. Under normal conditions, the actual "scrrens" of halftone dots are rotated…
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#11-pt screen fonts
Message #6810
As far as I know, FontSizer uses the PostScript interpreter built into the Laser printer's ROM; a PS interpreter is the actual workhorse that converts Postscript commands into actual raster data (dots on the page). From the way I've seen FontSizer work, what happens (essentially) is this: You (the user)…
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11-pt screen fonts
Message #6788
FontSizer does require a PostScript LaserWriter (which actually does the work of figuring the pixels in the font from a PS outline description). You can use any PostScript font, built-in or downloadable.
Illustrator will identify and use PICT files as templates, but PICT files seem to use a LOT more memory (RAM) than MacPaint files…enough to cause frequent "out of memory" situations on a Mac Plus with a single meg of RAM. The best way I've found to incorporate scanned images is…
To the best of my knowledge, DrawOver will not work with a PICT scan file…all you'd get is a big rectangle (although I doubt that it is supposed to buzz and crash as you say). DrawOver is designed for PICT object files., like those created by MacDraw 1.9…in this case…
I PEmyself don't have any fonts in the works for foreign language sets (though i have thought about the area). Some companies that you might want to check out are: Allotype Typographics Fonts include Kadmos (classical Greek); Chemical structure fonts; Demotiki (modern Greek); and two Polish fonts, among others. (313)…
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ill 88
Message #6686
Illustrator 88 really needs 2 megabytes to function properly. It WILL run on a one megabyte machine, but you will find yourself getting "out of memory…can't finish drawing" messages on many illustrations (especially on a Mac II, since color and other factors take away even more RAM than the system…
Using any point sizes other than 10, 12, 14, 18, & 24 is not a good idea. These are the "standard" sizes that come with all of Adobe's fonts. Odds are that the sizes you're using come from a non-adobe source, or are much older than the current adobe release.…
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Adobe NFNTs?
Message #6506
MacroMaker will let you assign a macro globally or to an individual application. the Macros are accessable thru assignable key strokes or a pull-down menu. Macros can consist of mouseclicks, text entry via keyboard, can call other macros, and (i think) can "wait" for periods of time for events to…
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#Adobe NFNTs?
Message #6504
WHEN YOU SAY READS…. Have you tried creating a postScript file to disk for your problem fonts? That is, taking a sample document in the affected font and holding down the Command-F key combo immediately after clicking OK in the Print Dialog. This will give you the application's PostScript code…
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#Illustrator upgrade
Message #6416
YES! Scan your artwork as best you can, then save it as an Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS or EPSF are the usual abbreviations). Once in this format, a scan can be "Placed" into an Illustrator file using the "Place…" command in the File menu. The image will appear (in artwork…
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#Smaller point sizes
Message #6371
If I interpret your query correctly, you are asking about Adobe's proprietary font technology. The way it works is this: there is code written into (I assume) all Adobe fonts that allows those fonts to print more legibly on certain printers. These "hints" tell the printer how to "round off"…
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Adobe NFNTs?
Message #6315
Despite what Compugraphic claims, The faces that iI've seen so far from them look identical to those created with Fontogrpapher, not the big proprietary system Adobe uses (I was led to believe they were using more "advanced" software…but I'm not knocking Fontographer either). The problem that ANY company (other than…
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#Adobe NFNTs?
Message #6231
OK, folks, here's the latest on what gets what through the Style menus. all of the following info was extracted directly from virgin FOND resources, so if they don't work this way on YOUR system you probably are the victim of Apple's Font/DA Mover, and its nasty tendency to strip…
"From the bottom up" means from the last referenced fon to the first (which still doesn't make any sense). Here's an example family: StonePlain > Italic & Semi & Semi Italic Italic > Semi Italic Semi > Semi Italic & Bold & Bold Italic Semi Italic > Bold Italic Bold…
Don't trust Adobe as far as you can throw your Lino when it comes to font references….there are NO ABSOLUTES! EXAMPLE 1: for the longest time (in mac terms), Adobe used the term "Heavy" to classify styles that were bolder than "bold", like Tiffany Heavy & Franklin Gothic Heavy. But…
Rumor? what rumor? -Scott Leyes
Here's a rule that might help: I've found that Font/DA Mover will strip out any FOND references that it thinks are unnecessary…so if you were to copy stone Semibold into a "new" file using F/DA Mover, it will remove the references for bold, etc. Whenever possible, combine fonts from the…
In the case of Stone, however, there are two "parent" FONDs (as I refer to them)…"Plain" and "Semibold". Choosing "Bold" from the style menu for "Plain" gets you Semibold, choosing "bold" from the style menu for "Semibold" gets you "BOLD". Hence much confusion. Another problem: Helvetica Light. This FOND refers…
There is a DEFINITE difference in the three weights…if anything, Semibold and Plain should be closest to one another, while bold really shows. Do you have all of the screen fonts (all styles) installed in your System? If so, do you notice the effects of choosing the different styles on-screen?…
Yep. Rick just mentioned your name today. -Scott Leyes
If you ever DO want dot-matrix printout, you can always print to an Imagewriter from Illustrator; or save a file as Encapsulated PostScript, then "place" the file into another application (like Pmaker or XPress) and print from that …there may be epson drivers for those other apps. -Scott Leyes
The L-200 isn't better than the 300…it's the same basic equipment & hardware, with a somewhat simpler configuration. Linotype introduced the L-200 to replace the low-end market (where the L-100 sat), not as an upgrade to the 300. The RIP-2 is SUBSTANTIALLY better than the RIP-1… it will increase your…
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#Adobe NFNTs?
Message #6150
So the "solution" (for the time being) could be this(?): 1) Make sure that all of the "Parent" FONDs (usually plain styles) have IDs under 256; 2) Leave the matching "plain" screen fonts as FONTs; 3) change all of the "other" styles to NFNTs, which allows you to get rid…
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Help…Help
Message #6149
Bad news…you're probably out of luck on this one, at least as far as the FPD is concerned. Illustrator '88 is designed to work under TWO megabytes of RAM – it's a memory hog compared to the old version – but it can operate properly with a single megabyte on…
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#88 font spacing bug
Message #6147
Does this bug occur in other applications? Are your screen fonts installed in your System file, or are you using Suitcase or F/DAJuggler? When you reinstalled your system, did you use the Installer or did you simply replace the file? Any of these may affect what's happening. (then again, sometimes…