#Future Drawing Programs
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With the second generation of Amiga structured drawing programs coming in the
next few months, what sort of features would You like to see in them?
Are you ready for Mac-style prices, too? 🙂 Remember, the first generation
of Mac programs didn't have these features. Pro Draw does have process color,
along with Pro Page. But they don't have the Pantone matching system yet.
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Have you seen InterFont? The text you make with InterFont *is* transparent.
We do clip away the insides of letters with holes, so the graphics below show
through. You might want to check out the samples of Pro Page output in the
Syndesis section of the Amiga Vendor area.
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Something like filled or transparent characters is up for grabs. I don't think
I'd call it a bug. I'd call it a design flaw. There are some people who want
white-filled letters, some want transparent letters. Gold Disk decided that it
wasn't important enough to give you a choice, or they assumed that most people
wanted filled letters. It's not a bug – the program is supposed to work that
way. It doesn't compare to a bug that destroys data, for instance. It's just
one of those things that makes you grit your teeth when you come up against it
– usually late at night, when the project's due the next morning, right? 🙂 –
John
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Regarding white counters in letters, ProPage is not unusual in this
respect. The following quotation is from a recent issue of Step-by-Step
Graphics magazine: "One problem Rice encounters in this process is that
when placing art back into a tinted box in Quark, the counters of drawn
letters such as "O" or "e" are opaque, effectively blocking out the tinted
background. Illustrator, like many of the Postscript draw programs, sees
the counters of these letters as vector objects, which by default are
usually opaque white. In order to "see through" the letters, two
techniques are used by Rice. In Illustrator, the counters can be filled
with the same color as the tint in Quark. . . . The best solution is to cut
the letter in Illustrator with the scissors tool across one side of the
bowl of the letter, join the inside and outside lines, and reassemble it.
In this way, the counter will be transparent, and can be placed on top of
any shaded or tinted background in Quark." I've been thinking of making a
program to process the font files so they'd automatically come out this
way, but I just haven't had the time. The resulting fonts wouldn't be
suitable for outline lettering. You can't have it both ways. By the way I
haven't yet tried the method I just quoted.
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