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PageStream Output

    27-Mar-89 01:26:49
Fm: Joel Halbert 73147,353
To: Soft-Logik Tech Support 76004,1676
Good luck to all in finding the problem. I would suspect that it isn't just in the font rendering routines, because (as I said) I've noticed that lines will be printed at varying widths depending on their angle – that doesn't happen when printing via PostScript, so it isn't just a difference with fonts. I can give you a short file that demonstrates this if you want. I have something else to ask you about (surprise!): I downloaded some of the public domain fonts (through another net). They wouldn't fit on my PageStreamFonts disk, so I made a second font disk. The problem is that PageStream doesn't seem to allow dynamic switching of the font path. If you change it, it has no effect unless you save it and then quit and restart the program. This would seem to make it very difficult to manage a large font library. I can think of ways to get around this, but they all involve making up special-purpose font disks. I suppose if I had a hard disk, I could devote a very large directory to PS fonts, but I don't. So, what is the recommended way of dealing with several disks worth of fonts? Is there something I've missed in the program? If not, may I suggest this as another feature to be added – some sort of font management that doesn't tie you to a single directory. As always, thanks for listening. Joel