CompuServe Messages

Jim: PPage sure does use postscript fonts! If you're printing to a Postscript (PS) printer, and you're using anything other than fonts that are internal to the printer than you must have the PS font in the CGFONTS/PS directory so that PPage can download them to the printer. You must also have a .metric file that coresponds with the font in the CGFONTS/PS directory, and it's also nice to have an amiga font that coresponds as well (although the Amiga font really isn't nessasary, you could use any Amiga font for the display). I've converted several Mac fonts for use with PPage, and the process is basically first I edit the actual PS font to remove any extra CR's from the file, and add any LF's that might be needed (mainly to make the file readable on the Amiga), then there's a set of programs that will convert the Mac .bmap files to Amiga .font files, as well as the .AFM file to a .metric file for use with PPage. If you're printing PS to a file (to print out later with Post) than basically you can either have PPage download the font to the document (as if it was sending it to an actual printer), or just let POST find the fonts on it's own (you have to make sure that you edit init.ps and uncomment the lines that search for PS fonts in the cgfonts/ps directory as well as the psfonts: directory. I have both a real PS printer, as well as Post v1.5 and what I do is I have one directory for my additional PS fonts (cgfonts/ps) as well as another directory for the fonts that are already in my PS printer (so PPage won't download these to the printer with the other fonts) and have init.ps set to look in both places for fonts. -Mike Schiller In sunny Fort Lauderdale