charlyn@felix.UUCP (Charlyn Johnson) (01/11/89)
I'm using PageMaker with a large screen. I can't read my 10 point Times text very easily in Actual Size or Fit in Window modes (which are the same) because the type is too small. The next larger display mode is 200%, but this displays 20 point Times for which I have no screen font. I've tried to call Adobe but their phone just rings and rings or I get put on permanent musical hold. Does anyone know how I can get my hands on a 20 point Times screen font? It would be really handy to be able to edit in 200% mode, but I can't stand staring at the choppy, jaggy letters that appear without the screen font.
chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (01/12/89)
>same) because the type is too small. The next larger display mode is 200%, >but this displays 20 point Times for which I have no screen font. There is a program out called FontSizer (about $80 at Macconnection and computerware) that will let you create any size bitmap for any font you want, which can then be installed in your system file for use. Sounds like it's just what the doctor ordered. Chuq Von Rospach Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms chuq@sun.COM And now a message for the eyes of only those people with Commander Chuqui Secret Decoder Rings: 7-3-6-27-24-4-10-6-27-3-2-23-27-23-10-7-27-3-24-24-4-20-11-7-24
drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) (01/12/89)
In article <84847@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >There is a program out called FontSizer (about $80 at Macconnection and >computerware) that will let you create any size bitmap for any font you >want, which can then be installed in your system file for use. Sounds like >it's just what the doctor ordered. > Slight correction to the above. It will allow you to create virtually any size bitmap for any font for which it can find the PostScript description in the LaserWriter you point it at. So, you would have to download the font to the LaserWriter first before you could run FontSizer on it. I do agree with Chuq though that it is an excellent product, just not that it is quite the panacea that he implied. Dennis Cohen Claris Corp. ------------ Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm) (01/13/89)
In article <84847@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >There is a program out called FontSizer (about $80 at Macconnection and >computerware) that will let you create any size bitmap for any font you >want, which can then be installed in your system file for use. Sounds like >it's just what the doctor ordered. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that FontSizer will only work on non-Adobe PostScript fonts. Adobe really protects the outline shapes of their fonts, and there really isn't a way to get to them. FontSizer takes its original data from the PostScript font, so in the case of Adobe you're out of luck. (Adobe also protects their "hints," the small corrections that maintain print quality at small type sizes. It is the "hints" that is the cause of many peoples' conviction that Adobe has the best quality fonts. Apparently the hints are implemented using PostScript commands that are not publicly docu- mented. Other type foundries like CompuGraphic and BitStream have their own equivalents of hints.) FontSizer, I understand, DOES work on 3rd-party generated PostScript fonts, which in almost all cases are generated using Altsys Fontographer. So if you have Casady or someone else's PostScript font, FontSizer will do the job. Am I wrong in this information? WILL FontSizer operate on Adobe fonts? If it does, I'm buying one yesterday; the Adobe restriction has been stopping me till now. -- -Brian Diehm (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply) Tektronix, Inc. briand@tekig4.TEK.COM or {decvax,cae780,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekig4!briand
jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker) (01/14/89)
In article <84847@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > >There is a program out called FontSizer (about $80 at Macconnection and >computerware) that will let you create any size bitmap for any font you >want, which can then be installed in your system file for use. > Unfortunately, it is not quite this simple. First, FontSizer will not let you create a screen font in a size smaller than 12 points. Also, you must have the necessary font files to download the font to a LaserWriter in order for it to work. If these are not sticking points, FontSizer should do the trick. jack decker