PageStream Output
27-Mar-89 01:26:49
Sb: #14221-PageStream Output
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