#PS Fonts, Listing Util.
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Dale:
Display PS fonts or body? For display fonts, I like "ProStream Plus"
(Allied Studios). Some nice stuff.
I also picked up a CD with 125 (count 'em!) PS fonts from Wayzata
Technology (PO Box 807, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, 55744). Its marketed as a
PC/Mac CD, but I've had not problems accessing the fonts through PgS.
Nick
>Display PS fonts or body?
Both. My printer has Palatino and SchoolBook and etc. built in as body
fonts which seem fine to me, but I don't know how to access them from PgS
(don't I have to have them on disk for PgS whether or not my printer
already has them)?
>For display fonts, I like "ProStream Plus" (Allied Studios). Some nice
>stuff.
Do you have a number or address for Allied?
>I also picked up a CD with 125 (count 'em!) PS fonts from Wayzata
>Technology (PO Box 807, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, 55744). Its marketed as
>a PC/Mac CD, but I've had not problems accessing the fonts through PgS.
How much $$$ for these two? Do they include "spec sheets" like in the
back of the PgS manual (the comments about what the fonts are good for are
especially useful to me)? You didn't have to do any convertion or
anything (they include the .afm's and any other needed files in the right
formats for PgS and FinalWriter)?
Thanks for all the help and sorry for all the questions. I'm just a silly
engineer…
— Dale L. Larson, Intangible Assets Manufacturing
— INTERNET:dale@iam.com
Dale,
Nearly all of my Type 1 postscript fonts have come from the DTP Forum's
DOS FONTS library. PageStream uses them just fine, and it is a simple
matter to create a new TYPE1 directory within your PageStream/PSFONTS
directory to hold all of the type 1 AFM's and PFB's… and also to create
a one page 'font sample sheet' that as you get a new font, you can change
the font attribute to the new and print it out… I keep all of these
printed pages in a loose leaf binder.
The one disk you really should get from SoftLogik is their Font Plus Pack,
which contains the screen fonts for the 35 fonts internal to most
PostScript devices.
How consistent is the quality of the fonts in DTP Forum's DOS FONTS
library? I don't have the skill to evaluate whether a particular font is
junk (unless I can't read it 🙂
Maybe you ought to add comments to your sample sheets and sell them…
— Dale L. Larson, Intangible Assets Manufacturing
— INTERNET:dale@iam.com
Nick-
What exactly do you mean by display fonts? I use FinalWriter, and the
one thing I hate about it is the screen display of my Type1 fonts. Are
these somehow optimized for screen dpi? One thing I know is that FiW
doesn't use hinting info.
I didn't know display fonts were available for the Amiga – I've used
them with Windows, and that's about it.
Paul
Final Writer doesn't use screen (display) fonts.
PageStream does.
Cheers,
Michael @ Soft-Logik Publishing Corp.
Could you give me a brief rundown on what they are exactly? I never
understood – are they just an extra font file that is used only for screen
display and is bitmapped or somehow optimized for screen DPIs?
So would PgS be really legible and easy on the eyes? I ask because
ProWrite is essentially useless to me and because, like I said, FiW is
painful to read and SoftWood told me they have _NO_ plans to improve its
screen display of fonts. In fact, the guy I spoke to couldn't understand
why _I_ had a problem – he felt the display was just fine!
But I have a hard time imagining that PgS would really be appropriate or
useful for straight ahead word processing, though maybe you'd like to
explain why I'm wrong. <g>
Paul