CHIASSA@UDEM.BITNET (Alyre CHIASSON) (08/08/89)
Having tried to get OPUS and BSTAT to work with GDOS has left me with a few questions concerning GDOS font management. OPUS documentation pointed out that the ASSIGN file of TIMEWORKS DESKTOP PUBLISHER has screen fonts that are not listed in the printer fonts. I ckecked and yes this is true! Not only that but among all the screen and printer fonts listed only two matched up regarding font type and point size. What happens when the program tries to do a print with a screen font that has no matching printer font, or the case where there is a printer font but the wrong point size? Both OPUS and BSTAT look great though the latter replies better to my needs. I work in french so I often need access to the different accents which I do with a program that I run from the auto folder. OPUS acknowledges whatever the accent program does (keyboard interupt?) but BSTAT does not. What determines if a program does or doesn't respond to programs that give access to foreign characters? Can I do something to get BSTAT to accept french accents? The only thing I find lacking in the graph features of both programs is subscript and superscript for scientific labels. I am current designing some greek letters with FONTZ! but I would like to be able to place them in either superscript or subscript position.
andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) (08/09/89)
| | Having tried to get OPUS and BSTAT to work with GDOS has left me | with a few questions concerning GDOS font management. OPUS | documentation pointed out that the ASSIGN file of TIMEWORKS | DESKTOP PUBLISHER has screen fonts that are not listed in the | printer fonts. I ckecked and yes this is true! Not only | that but among all the screen and printer fonts listed only two | matched up regarding font type and point size. What happens when | the program tries to do a print with a screen font that has no | matching printer font, or the case where there is a printer font | but the wrong point size? | It is possible (and apparently common) to use a GDOS font both at it's defined point size and at multiples of it's point size. For instance, a 7-point font can be used to print a 14 point font. The results are never as good, the letters of the doubled font are noticeably jagged or blocky, since the resolution of the doubled font is halved. The reason for doing it is the substantial task of creating yet another font size is eliminated. Easydraw 2.3 uses this trick for some fonts; I'm only guessing that this is what Timeworks DTP is doing. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are those solely of the author, who has no pecuniary interest in any companies mentioned. Copyright (c) 1989 by Andrew Cassino. All rights reserved. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Andy Cassino % % uucp: hplabs!hplsla!andyc domain: andyc%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com % % Hewlett-Packard Lake Stevens Instrument Division % % 8600 Soper Hill Road Everett, WA 98205-1298 % % (206) 335-2211 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%