fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (03/01/89)
This is the very preliminary report of FSP 2.0. It showed up in
the mail today. I found a bug within 5 minutes but it is in an error
path that you shouldn't go down if you install it right.
As for the real stuff, I managed to get it to write a page of PostScript
to a disk, carry the disk to our UNIX system with the LaserWriter and have
it actually produce output. This was just their sample page with a couple
of quick changes by me but it worked and looks good. The bad news is that
there are none of the "required" comments in the generated PostScript.
I will continue to play with this guy and hopefully will have a more
detailed report available in a week or so. For anyone who doesn't
remember I am the poor sucker that tried to get Publishing Partner to work
- by that I mean generate the right stuff in PostScript and have managed
to break every release they were willing to send me.
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Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX
uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fylfyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (03/02/89)
Here is a little more information:
As far as the human factors and features I like it less than
Publishing Partner with the exception that it really uses GEM so
you can do such things as have multiple text windows and/or pages
on the screen at once. This means that you can call up a text file
to merge into a page, edit it to select what you want and then transfer
it.
Another real nice thing is that if you insert text in existing text it
is in the font of the existing text instead of the default or last used
font. Further, you can find out what font and size text is in.
Another nice feature is the ability to set the text and background
"color" (8 gray levels for dumb printers, any % for PostScript printers).
What it won't do is any graphics other than boxes and lines. It is really
a page layout program suitable for publishing a newsletter or newspaper.
It doesn't do color separations or draw pretty boxes with round corners or
any of that other funny stuff.
What it does is work. I have yet to blow it up although there are
certainly some things that I don't know how to do as yet.
And, A QUESTION: anyone know how to generate the characters above 128 in
the character set. They publish the character set on pages 183-4 of the
manual. Things like trademark symbols and bullets exist but I can't
figure out how to generate them from the keyboard.
That's it for now - nore info as I figure it out.
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Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX
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