#PPage & Post v1.4
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I would like to be able to use Post v1.4 to process documents created on
ProPage 1.3 (I'm still waiting for my free upgrade!) How do I get PPage to
recognize the fonts that I want to use with Post? I have tried everything
I can think of to no avail.
Lee Scoggins Whap!(Registered) V1.9b–Some things are better left unsaid!
You need to have postscript fonts. The fonts that come with PPage won't
work with POST. You can buy postscript fonts. You can buy Gold*Disk's
font set and use the included utility to MAKE postscript fonts. You can
use some freely distributable postscript fonts–but they are not so hot.
Once you have postscript fonts, put them in a directory called PSFONTS:
You can just assign PSFONTS: wherever they are, or make a disk with that
name. Then, make sure your postscript font calls them by exactly the right
name. Thus, if the postscript calls for Times-Roman, it will not find
Times-roman.
Hope this helps.
// Jim
The problem I am having is that I don't know how to use the PostScript
fonts from within PPage. I can't seem to get them to come up as aavailable
in the font requestor.
PPage doesn't use postscript fonts. It uses Amiga bitmap fontsor or
compugraphic outline fonts. I don't know what conversion you would have to
do to make the fonts usable. I guess you could mae make a metric font?
Which fonts are involved? PPage comes with metric fonts for the ones in
most Postscript printers. I don't know what you would do to make screen
representations for them, though.
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
Oops–I made the mistake of generalizing from my own experience. I do not
have a postscript printer. When I do make postscript files, it is for my
friend's LaserWriter, and we use the built in fonts. Thanks for the
informative reply.
Lee:
See my message to Jim regarding PPage, Post, and PS fonts. What sort of
fonts do you have that you wanted to use with PPage? If they're Mac PS type
3 fonts, than they CAN be converted to be used with PPage. I can do that
sort of conversion, so if you need it done, let me know via E-Mail.
-Mike Schiller
In sunny Fort Lauderdale
Mike,
Thanks for the help. Yes, they are Adobe Type 3 fonts. I will let you
know which fonts I am trying to convert.
Lee Scoggins Whap!(Registered) V1.9D–Some things are better left unsaid!