This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Dear Syndesis
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
David- To convert AFM files to Ventura WID files is a two step process. You must first convert the AFM file to a VFM file using the AFMtoVFM.exe utility. The VFM file must then be converted to a WID file by using the VFMtoWID.exe utility. This is discussed on page…
Jackie- I spoke with the technical support staff and they agree that you need to get the updated WPRINT6.all file, dated 9/14/89, that includes ITC Clearface. If your .all file is dated 9/14/89 then let me know and we'll investigate from there. Nancy Runge Adobe Systems
NFNT Font problem
Message #13336
Steve – I am not sure that I follow your question. Are you actually having a problem printing out the fonts that you have in you system, or were you just _told_ that you would have a problem? What application are you using? There should not be any impact on…
Dan – You sent a message to David Madison on October 2nd that read "Lori Haines: Thanks for message – please send some lit." I assume the message is for me, but I am unclear as to the specific literature you would like. Please let me know and I will…
Blaise – At this time Adobe's CompuServe accounts in the States are not linked with our European office. It may be that in the future we work together in this respect, however, I don't believe that anything has been put into action. For this reason, I would prefer you not…
Lenox – There are a couple of options here – there is a utility in LIB3, UNSTUF.ARC that will "unstuff" .SIT files on your IBM PC. If that is not feasible I would be happy to upload an ASCII version. Let me know! Lori
Lori – I have uploaded it to Library 4, file name DSTILL.PS. Lori Haines
Joseph, PCSEND is packaged with the Adobe Type Library packages for the IBM. Since you purchased your fonts from Linotype, you will need to check with them to see if they have PCSEND available at this time. Lori Haines
Jackie – If your computer and printer communicate through a serial interface (as opposed to parallel or "standard Centronics port) then you would use PSDOWN to download fonts. If you did purchase an Adobe Typeface package from this person, you should have the user's manual which explains printer communication settings…
Blaise – I don't believe that our Adobe Europe office has established CompuServe accounts at this time. I can give you the telephone and fax numbers though – I hope that's OK! phone: 011-31-20-767-661 fax: 011-31-20-754-086 011-31-20-793-181 Lori Haines
ATM
Message #13164
Stephen – that is still the projected ship date for ATM!! Lori Haines
#Screen font display
Message #13162
Steve and Denise – I have to apologize for not responding to your message sooner, unfortunately my modem was on the blink. In the meantime I have spoken to one of the technical support specialists here at Adobe and I understand he is researching your problem. Let "us" know what…
OS/2 screen fonts
Message #13161
Tom – A couple of the technical support folks here have been doing some testing with OS/2. We don't currently have a font product for OS/2 applications, but they were successful using PCSEND to send a printer font via the DOS shell in OS/2. They suggested you might try running…
Type 1 Specs
Message #13160
#Adobe Font Downloader
Message #13159
Jackie – Adobe Type Library packages for the IBM PC come with two downloaders, PSDOWN for a serial interface and PCSEND for a parallel connection. These utilities can be used to download printer fonts and other files and to manage your PostScript language printer. It does not sound like you…
#AFM Files
Message #13153
Bruce – The following is an answer posted by Stephen H. Owades awhile back to the question "What is an Adobe Font Metric File"… An AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) file contains, in readable ASCII form, a variety of information about a PostScript type face, including the names and widths of…
new illustrator
Message #13150
Richard – I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to respond, modem troubles… To answer your question about memory for Adobe Illustrator 88, 750K of RAM must be available to the finder to launch AI88 on a 1 meg. machine. If you have INITs installed (items that start up…
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hello
Message #7637
David, Welcome to the Adobe Forum! I think you'll find that a number of very informed and helpful people frequent this Forum. Feel free to throw you questions & comments out and it is likely a discussion will follow. Let me know if I can be of any assitance– helping…
Edward, Adobe does not currently offer the Stymie typeface, however we do offer a few square serifs that may meet your needs– ITC Lubalin Graph, Glypha and Memphis. Give our Sales Support Representatives a call at 800-344-8335 to receive a brochure or catalog showing these faces. Lori Haines, Sysop
Tom, Sonata is now available for the IBM PC!!! Give our sales department a call at 800-344-8335 for ordering information. Lori Haines, Sysop
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#Esther Kletter
Message #7634
Eli, Yes, Esther is still with Adobe. She is now an OEM Support Engineer and although she had hoped to pop in to the Forum every now and then, (even after I took over her Sysop responsibilities) she has been too busy with her new job to do so. I…
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Font Catalog
Message #7633
Kenneth, Call 800-344-8335 for a copy of Font & Function (Adobe's type catalog). Lori Haines, Sysop
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#LW screen fonts
Message #7632
Geoffrey, I would have to assume you have Apple's versions of these screen fonts, especially if they came with your IINT. You can tell for sure by checking to see if you have the style variations of the various fonts, for example o you have Palatino Bold, Italic and Bold…
#7511-
5" PC Demo Disk ?
Message #7631
Brian, I am surprised that you got ahold of a 3 1/2" disk, where did you get it? If you call 800-854-0800 you can have a 5 1/4" demo disk sent. Lori Haines, Sysop
#7503-
upgrades
Message #7630
Bill, An upgrade for the Macintosh fonts? I am not aware of anything, what exactly had you heard was going to been done? Lori Haines, Sysop
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Help with Windows
Message #7629
Stuart, Are you still having a problem with your fonts? If so please give me detailed information (software version numbers, hardware, define the problem) and I'll try to help, or you can give the Technical Support Specialists a call at (415) 961-0911. I've been away for the Holidays or I'd…
Carlos, You are not "missing" the Pantone color file for uncoated paper, the mentioning of the uncoated file was an error in the manual. This one file should be sufficient and your printer can assist you with any concerns you have WRT color output, paper stock, weight, etc, etc. As…
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Serv Bur Profile Form
Message #7627
Bill, The Service Bureau Profile form is in the mail. As far as a one-line font reference other than what is in the Font & Function catalog, I'm not sure what exactly you are looking for. Would a font brochure simply listing each font (printed in that face) help you…
#7418-
Letter Gothic 12 Font
Message #7626
Daryl, Adobe has a Letter Gothic font available for both Macs and PCs. Have you taken a look at our Font & Function catalog to see this might meet your needs? If you need a catalog, give our Sales Support people a call at 800-344-8335. Lori Haines, Sysop
#7404-
Disturbing Dingbats
Message #7625
Naomi, I can send you a Character Access Chart for Zapf Dingbats, just leave me your address and I'll take care it. Lori Haines, Sysop
#7525-
AI 88 System Bomb
Message #7624
Dennis, You can either call technical support at (415) 961-0911 or leave me with your address, phone number and registration # (VIA EASYPLEX) and I'll add you to the Jasmine list. Lori
#7393-
AI 88 System Bomb
Message #7623
Jesse, Since your problem is likely the monitor, I'd try out 1.7 first, then if you are still having problems, leave me with your address, phone #, and registration # (VIA EASYPLEX) and I'll add you to the list. Lori Haines
#7557-
Varityper
Message #7622
Jon, Not to jump in on this, but in your example of incomplete font families you cited the absence of ITC Garamond Light and ITC Clearface Black– both faces are currently available from Adobe. Anyhow, I have forwarded your suggestion, that we add more weights to existing font families, to…
scn fonts for mac
Message #7621
Scot, Sorry, I don't know the difference between StuffIt 1.5 and 1.5.1. You may or may not have noticed that I jumped right from version 1.2 to 1.5.1. "Bug fix" rings a bell though, and from what I understand 1.5 had not been around long when 1.5.1 took its place.…
As far as I know, the final output quality would not be affected. What would be (possibly) is the spacing going from screen to printed page and the look of the fonts on your screen. Either way, what prints out is going to be the PostScript font built into your…
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#PORT MAC FONTS TO IBM
Message #7292
The version of the fonts Adobe is currently selling cannot be transferred to an IBM and downloaded. The fonts are in MAC binary format and can only be downloaded from a Macintosh. (Our copy-protected version of the fonts, which were replaced quite some time ago, could be saved as a…
#FontLiner
Message #6938
There was a recent article (in one of the Mac magazines I believe) about Taylored utilities: FontLiner, QuickPlot.PS and Xris-Xros–and how they can be used with Adobe Illustrator. Here are the vitals- Taylored Graphics P.O. Box 1900 Freedom, CA 95019 (408) 761-2481
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#Ill88 & Jasmine-Fatal!!
Message #6851
Kathleen, The problem seems to be related to the driver Jasmine is using, so it can arise on any machine running AI88 w/ Jasmine 45 or higher. -Lori
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Illus.'88 & RSG 4.0a
Message #6850
Lance, I have heard of this problem before-fonts print correctly from a new RSG 4.0 document, but default to Courier within an EPS file from AI88. Try manually downloading the fonts before printing the RSG file. -Lori Haines
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#Running AI88 with 1Mb
Message #6849
Jesse, I wasn't aware that part of the problem was related to color monitors. Can you elaborate on what Jasmine said? I would certainly hope and think that there will be a solution, but don't want to venture so far as to suggest that you do or do not return…
Mark, Good luck then with the new versions–it does seem odd though that the problem only occurred with Optima. Well, like you said, hopefully the matter will become academic! -Lori
#6754-
IBM screen font problem
Message #6813
I believe your problem is that you need to run the NEWFON utility. Microsoft changed the format of the screen font files for Windows 2.0 or greater – to update your screen font files you will need to run this utility, provided by MicroSoft as part of the 2.0 package.
#Drawover
Message #6761
The Drawover application is designed for converting MacDraw (version 1.9 or 1.95) files (ONLY) into Adobe Illustrator 88.
Hello again! OK, the amount of space that this font family took up sounds reasonable. Depending if you are using the old or new version of our IBM PC fonts, you can install only selected point sizes to conserve space (version 1) and regardless of which version you have you…
For developer information/documentation you will need to call the Developer Support Department at (415)961-4111. There is a document called Color Extensions you might want to ask about. The font information in DL7 is at a bit of a stand still right now due to the Rev. 2 release of the…
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ill 88
Message #6688
2 megs with a Macintosh II — however, with a large screen monitor of any type we recommend an additional 2 megs of memory. If you are planning on doing complex artwork and use heavily some of the memory intensive tools (patterns, masking, blending) you should consider extra memory. Multifinder…
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#Screen Font Questions
Message #6624
I just finished speaking to the product manager for our IBM PC fonts. I explained to him the problems you are having and he believes this is a problem with the Windows font mapper (I know you have been following Richard Liu's problem and yours actually may fit into the…
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WIndows & Adobe Fonts
Message #6623
I do not know if Adobe is planning on coming out with separate fonts for monitors of different resolutions. If we had more point sizes available, the font mapper would probably decide that the font selected was the best match, but currently when it takes into consideration other variables such…
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