This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Get a Pacific Page cartridge for your LJII. All reports indicate output is great, fully PostScript compatible (uses Bitstream outlines, though, not Adobe), listed at about 695, available at about 495, not likely to be any slower than any other comparable (300 dpi) PS printer (slows LJ to about 2…
Problem with my proposal is that it doesn't contain a _contract_, that is a place for _them_ to sign and commit themselves. At present all I have on book is _my_ proposal (ancient as it is) and the edited manuscript in hand. Publisher has been very pleasant in all phone…
BITSTREAM ABANDONS IBM USERS! ORPHANED IBM PLATFORM OWNERS PROTEST! So, if, say, 25% of those LJ owners (or 15%) snapped up postscript emulators, would the numbers match or surpass the Mac-PS owners, and is it likely that IBM-HPLJ people with PS emulators would be hungry for fonts additional to those…
Really, Rick, how did you know that's what I'd say! 🙂 the convention organizers might ask you do last-minute program-change inserts for them, too? maybe too much hassle? or an extra source of income you wouldn't mind? "Be prepared!"
#Best Bitstream fonts?
Message #6079
Right. I just called. The platform is the difference. Bitstream is obviously putting their effort into fonts for the MAC with postscript and not bothering with the IBM world, postscript or not. Those fonts available for IBM can be installed as bitmapped or postscript, but the choices are fewer than…
finding clients
Message #6022
The formatting of this book is not very complex; having worked a couple of years on an IBM memory typewriter, I'd find preview wonderful if I hadn't also been introduced to WYSIWYG in VP. I, too, had gotten M Word (3.?, then update to 4.0) "for clients" but have never…
Best Bitstream fonts?
Message #6021
Thanks for phone #; I don't seem to have noticed their ads much lately; I _like_ 800 #s! Will call when I have breathing space. Got _busy_ this week; when I look back on it I'll be very glad of it.
#lib file ID
Message #6020
Apologies, Brad. Didn't _mean_ to offend. Thanks. Hope someone will pick the thing to pieces and let me know. Maybe it's not worth much attention. I did it from scratch, just trying to think of everything to cover and be very businesslike; obviously neglected to include a cutoff date!