klute@heike-fbi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (08/10/90)
I just ftp'ed the demo version of PageStream 1.8 from clotho.acm.rpi.edu (128.113.10.204) and tried it out. Now I have several questions: 1. Where can I buy the full version and what does it cost? Is it available in Germany? 2. Is there any newer version? 3. I tried to send the output in PostScript format to a disk file, but this did not work. Is this a problem with the demo version only or is this "feature" in the full version also? (Eventually I did it by sending the output to the serial port with "jove" listening on the Unix side.) 4. What fonts are available and where? Thanks in advance! -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386
steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) (08/11/90)
[In article <2396@laura.UUCP>,
klute@heike-fbi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes ... ]
> I just ftp'ed the demo version of PageStream 1.8 from clotho.acm.rpi.edu
> (128.113.10.204) and tried it out. Now I have several questions:
[questions on German availability omitted, since I don't have answers]
> 3. I tried to send the output in PostScript format to a disk file, but
> this did not work. Is this a problem with the demo version only or is
> this "feature" in the full version also? (Eventually I did it by
> sending the output to the serial port with "jove" listening on the
> Unix side.)
It works just dandy in the production version of PageStream 1.8. Not long
ago I printed some PostScript to an MS-DOS disk, stuck the disk into
a Mac II with a Superdrive, pulled the PostScript into the Mac, and sent
it to a Varityper VT-600 over an Appletalk network.
> 4. What fonts are available and where?
If you're using PostScript, the best way to set things up is to get
Soft Logik's "Disk A", which is available from the publisher or from
the E. Arthur Brown Co. It provides screen fonts, font metrics files
and .PSF files (which tell PageStream not to bother looking for down-
loadable fonts) for the standard internal fonts that come with the
Apple Laserwriter and similar PS printers. It does *not* provide
dot-matrix outline masters for those fonts.
Soft Logik has a dozen or so font disks with downloadable PostScript fonts.
The quality varies. Standard faces appear to be fairly decent. I would
recommend that you avoid the novelty typefaces.
PageStream downloads fonts by merging them into the output stream. If you
tell it that your printer has limited memory, it will include a purge-font
command after each usage, then re-send the font if necessary later in
the same document.
--
Steve Yelvington at the (rain-replenished) lake in Minnesota
steve@thelake.mn.org