#Feature Sought
Dear Sirs,
I have a feature that I would desperately like to see either included in the
Illustrator software… or as a seperate utility program.
I don't know how prevalant my particular problem is… so I don't quite know
if a significant number of customers would benefit… but I do believe that
quite a few DTPers suffer the same frustration as I do.
First let me give you a little background as to how I use Illustrator 88
(both to give you a better understanding of me as a consumer… and also to
give you some insight as to where my problem comes into play). I'm one of
several Graphic Artists/DeskTop Publishers at a fairly good sized publishing
and marketing firm here in the LA area. The system I use is a Mac II w/
standard color monitor, LaserWriter II NTX w/External Hard Drive, and various
other peripherals (scanner, MS-DOS interface, TOPS network, etc. etc.). We
purchased the LW NTX specifically for two reasons. The second was speed. But
first and foremost, we wanted to store all our Downloadable PostScript fonts on
the printer's external Hard Drive. The increase in efficientcy over our old
LaserWriter Plus was staggering. However, we generally (read always) use the LW
for proofing purposes only. For final output we need 1200 dpi or better.
Although we've pushed and pushed, the VPs and other initials at our company
have axed our requests for a Linotype 200 or 300 output device. So, we've found
a reputable L-300 house nearby that we job-out to… and we're quite happy with
our results. However, the problem arises as a result of our upgrade to the LW
NTX.
The L-300 house, because of their huge base of clients and, thus, fonts,
needs us to callout all the fonts that are required to print the files we give
to them. Since all downloadable fonts are now, for all intents and purposes,
"resident" on our LaserWriter, we get no "Now Downloading Font:Cooper Black",
etc. (which used to be our CheckSum for our files). Now, it takes quite a bit
of time perusing a given file (sometimes multi-paged, multi-layered, and quite
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