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Gold Disk CG Fonts

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#30428From: Paul MacDonaldMar 10, 1990 5:49 PM
I received my CG Fonts disk from Gold Disk today. Installation was a snap. Cheers, Paul (WA1OMM)
#30700From: Barry KucherMar 16, 1990 10:11 PM
Paul, Installation was easy, but how does PPage work for you? With the new fonts I had the program bomb on me for no apparent reason. How are you holding up? Barry Kucher
#30744From: Paul MacDonaldMar 17, 1990 10:46 PM
No problems here. Perhaps you have loaded too many fonts and not enough memory? Cheers, Paul (WA1OMM)
#30747From: Tom CattrallMar 18, 1990 12:37 AM
When I was using PPage with the original 2 CG fonts, I had quite a few gurus. In general PPage was quite fragile. I don't know if it is that way for others or whether it was some interaction with something else that I had active (like conman). Now that I have a postscript printer, I don't use the CG fonts and just output direct postscript. No more gurus at all. For that reason and others, I enthusiastically recommend the HP IIP and PDP postscript combo to any PPage users that don't have postscript yet. Tom
#30756From: Gary LucasMar 18, 1990 10:10 AM
Tom, As far as the "GURUS", I had many vists from the GURU too … So, I called Gold Disk's Tech. Support (BTW, I have NEVER had a hard time reaching them, I dial 3-5 times and always get them — I am in Florida) they told me to delete the files in the CGFont:CGCache/ directory because they apparently became corrupt. I was told that these files are automagically created by PPAGE and they must be deleted and PPAGE would re-create new ones. I did this and PPAGE worked perfectly!!! — Gary Lucas —
#30764From: Ray LewisMar 18, 1990 4:27 PM
I have used ProPage with my epson-clone 9 pin dot matrix and the CGFonts with great results. I have a very recent version, so maybe they've fixed somethings. The only problem I have with it is that it is a chip ram hog, so I have to boot into a cli, rather than having a workbench up, or it runs out of memory. For the same reason, when I go to print, I change the screen resolution back to 640×200 from interlace, otherwise it will refuse to print due to memory limitations. (I have five megs, but only 512K chip ram) Ray Lewis