Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (01/20/89)
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 19 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 11
Today's Topics:
Adobe screen fonts for Courier
Avant Garde screen fonts
Clear 3.5" Disks
Fax Modems
Help with Mac Upgrade
Helvetica Narrow screen fonts
Human Touch Accel. problems
Mac Viruses - GateKeeper
Palatino screen fonts
Updates of Modula-2
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #6
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #7
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #8
Version 1.1 of Audio CD Demo Stack
Zapf Chancery screen fonts
Zapf Dingbats screen fonts
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 10:35:41 EST
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Adobe screen fonts for Courier
Recently, John Tolliver (Tolliver%orn.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa) wrote:
> I've had a really weird problem with the Adobe Courier screen font
> family downloaded from the recent posting to the archives. I also
> donwloaded some of the others and most seem to work fine. But the
> Courier Family seems to have a problem. At 12 point or 24 point, the
> Courier screen font, a monspaced font, works fine. The problem is at 14
> point size, where it still looks fine on the screen, but when printed to
> a LaserWriter Plus, the spacing is not correct. In a code listing, for
> example, where I have 4 spaces at the beginning of a line, the
> characters in the 5th column do not line up properly. The spacing errors
> are not integral multiples of one space. If you site along the fifth
> column of the printed page, it looks wavey. This happens with both Word
> 3.01 and WordPerfect, with or without "fractional fonts" enabled, on a
> Mac II or a Mac Plus, with the font in the System file or in a font
> suitcase using Suitcase II, with Suitcase II enabled or not even in the
> System Folder, and before or after having passed the font through
> Suitcase II's Font Harmony utility to correct defects in the file.
I can't say that I've seen this problem before BUT, (1) I rarely use Courier,
and (2) I learned (from pre-LaserWriter days) to use tabs to hold alignment
rather than trying to use spaces. It does seem to point up a problem with
that screen font. If I get a chance, I'll point it out to Adobe.
If you can't use tabs, then perhaps the best thing is to just drop the Adobe
fonts. What you'll lose is overall improved character spacing when you use
the Courier-Italic, etc. fonts. One potential problem can result if you
install the screen fonts without first removing ALL of Apple's Courier fonts.
In that case you'll get an incompatible mix. However, I would THINK that
Suitcase's Font Harmony might fix that problem, but maybe not.
> Somehow there is some weird interaction between the screen font and the
> postscript file that gets created. I repeat, it looks perfect on the
> screen, just prints badly. It works correctly both on screen and printed
> with 12 or 24 point font sizes (the only other ones I've tried). ...
This points directly to the problem with the way Apple chose to set things up.
Many folks, myself included, thought that using PostScript meant that no matter
if the display was ugly, the output would be perfect. I even went so far as
to tell people (and do myself) to only install one size (to reduce System file
size) because "the PostScript will take care of everything, and the output
will still be perfect." IT JUST AIN'T SO! Apple chose to make the output you
get (i.e., the PostScript generated) DEPENDENT on the screen display. This is
why the PostScript files are different when you use the different sets of
screen fonts. Something you didn't expect after listening to all of Apple's
hype about PostScript perfection and letter perfect output from your new
LaserWriter. Well it isn't PostScript's fault (though it does have its
own share of problems), it's Apple's.
I suppose they chose this method to speed screen display and/or printing, but
I think they were short-sighted. (Display PostScript seems to be the best
solution today, but it certainly isn't the only one.) Thus, to get the best
possible printing, you need the screen fonts in the sizes and styles that you
will use. Of course, if you use odd sizes, i.e., 8pt for subscripts or 31pt
for display type, then you are in real trouble in trying to get good spacing.
The only solution to that one is PERHAPS in a program called FontSizer by US
MicroLabs. It generates screen fonts (still an approximation) from the
PostScript definitions in the printer in any size and style that are
installed. (Which is why bold Symbol doesn't print that way. There isn't any
bold Symbol installed in the printer.)
I can't really recommend the program because I haven't used it (yet). People
I've talked to say it does a good job on large sizes (for which it was
intended), but I don't know about small ones (for scientific types like me,
who abuse sub and superscripts to no end).
Anyway, I hope this description helps you understand the problem, even if
you don't solve it.
Michael J. Paisley
PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
70156,1117 (CompuServe)
Materials Science and Engineering
229 Riddick Laboratories
Campus Box 7907
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7907
Office: (919) 737-7083
Messages: (919) 737-2377
FAX: (919) 737-3419
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:15:39 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Avant Garde screen fonts
Here's part 1 of the screen fonts for Avant Garde, which is built in
to the LaserWriter Plus and the LaserWriter II NT and NTX, as well as
others. This is a BinHex file of a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA
mover file. This is a nice font for headlines (sometimes), but I wouldn't
advise using it for body text.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/avant-garde-part1.hqx; 59K
/info-mac/font/avant-garde-part2.hqx; 50K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 19:53:31 est
From: MegaFest Coordinator <tron@wpi.wpi.edu>
Subject: Clear 3.5" Disks
Do any of you folks know where I can get clear 3.5" floppies like the ones that
some of the distributors had at the MacWorld Expo in Boston?
- Richard G. Brewer
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
------------------------------
Date: 18 Jan 89 10:54 EST
From: rrenfro%tofacsa@dtrc.arpa (Richard Renfro)
Subject: Fax Modems
We're looking for a reliable fax modem to attach to a Mac II. Since Apple
hasn't
been able to figure out how to do this, is there another company that offers a
suitable product?
Desired Features:
easy to use
can work in background
can be set to transmit during off-peak hours
imports and exports text or graphics
can send output directly to Laserwriter
works with all currently used fax protocols
Thanks in advance. If there's sufficient interest, I'll summarize the
responses.
rrenfro@dtrc.arpa
301/227-3329
Code 1401
David Taylor Research Center
-------
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 18:35:18 PST
From: Mark Nagel <nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Help with Mac Upgrade
In <Info-Mac Digest V7 #10> you write:
|
|I'm also considering a Dove MacSnap 548S (a SCSI port + 2 megs memory).
|Has anyone had experience with this board?
|
I have a 512e that I've upgraded to 2M + SCSI using Dove's board. It
has worked flawlessly (after getting past some initial problems and
exchanging the first SCSI board for a working one). The only problem
I have is that you need to turn on the Mac before the hard disk --
otherwise it only recognizes 512K, not 2M. It's strange, and Dove had
no idea why it happened. Anyway, I'd suggest going to a Mac Plus now.
That's because you still have an upgrade path to 4M and/or SE, whereas
you're pretty much stuck at 2M forever with the Dove upgrade. When I
first got my upgrade, I thought 2M would never be too little...
-Mark
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:23:03 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Helvetica Narrow screen fonts
This is a BinHex of a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA Mover file
of the screen fonts for Helvetica Narrow, a built-in font for the
LaserWriter Plus and LaserWriter II NT and NTX. It comes with the Bold,
Italic, bold italic and plain screen fonts in all the sizes. Basically,
this font is just a horizontally compressed version of ordinary
Helvetica. It's nice for headlines or when you need to cram a lot of
text into a small space.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/helvetica-narrow-part1.hqx; 51K
/info-mac/font/helvetica-narrow-part2.hqx; 57K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 13:14 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Human Touch Accel. problems
Greetings,
I have two problems with a Human Touch accelerator/RAM card which I've been
using now for a couple of years. The card is installed in my Mac 512KE.
It has a 12MHz 68000 and 1.5MB of RAM (system total RAM=2MB). It is fast,
and until recently I've had no compatiblity problems with it. Until recently.
Problem 1 - The DataDesk Mac 101 keyboard won't work on this Mac. The keyboard
works on other Macs but not mine. A friend's identical keyboard also does
not work on my Mac. The keyboard works in Macsbug, but not otherwise (no
response at all). I tried tweaking the power supply voltage, per a suggestion
>From DataDesk, to no avail.
Problem 2 - System 6.0.2 does not boot on my Mac. The "Welcome to Macintosh"
box appears and that's it... totally hung.
Any insights into either of these puzzles?
Thanks in advance.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer Specialist
Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
PHONE (315) 824-1000 ext 742
APPLELINK U0523 (too expensive)
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 20:10 CDT
From: <B645ZAX@UTARLG>
Subject: Mac Viruses - GateKeeper
The following excerpt is forwarded from Spock@calstate:
I recently downloaded a CDEV file named "Gatekeeper". Current version
is 1.0. I'm not sure whether or not this is a BETA copy or not. But
in lue of the situation, I thought it was worth a try testing the
program. This program allows users to actually see what's going on with
their resources as far as possible viri programs are concerned. it
lists out there resource name, ID number, application that they
attacked (or in this case, attempted to attack), application which\
they attacked from, and what source disk; not to mention the date
and time. The program, by default, keeps a record log of everything
>From startup to shutdown. It prevents possible viri programs from
attacking either the Finder or System files. I'm not sure whether
the program prevents attacks on the Desktop file, but since both the
author and myself have tested the SCORES virus, I feeel that the
program DOES include the Desktop as one that is innoculated. Once
gatekeeper is taken off the disk, the viri programs DO attack the
applications and/or three files. When Gatekeeper is in the System
Folder, nothing (ABSOLUTELY NOTHING) happens.
As a personal testing of my own, I've tested "nVIR" as well as
"SCORES" on Gatekeeper. In addition, I've tested "mutated" versions
of "nVIR" at Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper STOPS ALL of those! I'm
not sure whether or not it stops either "Hpat" or "INIT29"; however,
someone has a copy of "Hpat" on his hard disk, and sometime this
week, I plan on getting a copy of it. Hopefully this weekend, I'll
have it isolated and disassembled. I've used MacNosy 2.35 (I have
a newer version, but it doesn't seem to work real well with my
Mac Plus) for disassembling into source code. However, there are
some problems here with Gatekeeper.
When exiting, Gatekeeper either locks up (with an ID=02 msg) or
simply clears and redisplays (rapidly) a blank dialog (with NO msg)
repeatly. I cannot seem to define a parmeter file for customizing
certain applications that DO require certain resource checks (like
MS Excel or ResEdit). That provides the same error message or
dialog. The ID=02 message shows up on my Mac Plus, and the other
message shows up on either the Mac SE or II. The IIx has NOT been
tested yet. Other than that, I've been quite impressed with the
product so far. And what's best is that it's FREE!
Spock INTERNET: cbds080@ccs.csuscc.calstate.edu
cbds080@c730.csupom.calstate.edu
BITNET: spock@calstate.BITNET
<end of excert>
-David Richardson, The University of Texas at Arlington
Bitnet: b645zax@utarlg Internet/Domain: b645zax@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu
UUCP: ...!{ames, texbell!cs.utexas.edu}!utarlg.arl.utexas.edu!b645zax
USnailMail: P O Box 192053, Arlington, TX 76019-2053
PhoNet: 817-273-3656 (FREE from Dallas/Ft. Worth, school months only)
[I use Gatekeeper all the time without any problems. In my opinion, it's
the best virus-fighting tool I've seen. - Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:28:51 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Palatino screen fonts
Here's part 1 of a BinHex file of a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA
Mover file of the screen fonts for Palatino. The plain, bold, italic
and bold italic screen fonts are all in here. The font is built in to
the LaserWriter Plus, II NT, II NTX and a whole lot of other printers.
Palatino is an extremely good-looking and readable font for body text,
and it isn't half-bad for headlines either. It may as well be the Official
Font of Brown University, since nearly every official university publication
uses this font, as well as a lot of student publications.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/palatino-part1.hqx; 49K
/info-mac/font/palatino-part2.hqx; 59K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 22:22 CST
From: <IFRA%UMINN1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Updates of Modula-2
Does anyone know if there has been any new updates for
the Modula-2 compiler in the INFO-MAC archives?
-Frank
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:27 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #6
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 6
Today's Topics:
apple 1.4M drives
Coral largely taken over by Apple
Microsoft Road Show & Non-Disclosure Forms
Re: Concertware+,DMCS (reviews requested)
Questions about Hayes compatible modems
Rewriteable Optical Disks
24-bit Color Boards
Re: Turbo Pascal
Greyscale Antialiasing on Imagewriter?
Re: Dollars and Sense end of year
Re: Updating dialogs
Re: Apple HD SC 80 does not support Asynch i/o.
Re: NewHandle & No Memory
Re: How does the Finder tell diskettes apart?
Re: Using the wave-table synth in the Mac II Sound Manager
Re: Stack manipulation problems
Re: Telebit Trailblazer + and A/UX (2 messages)
Re: Looking for Centronics-style parallel interface card for Mac II
Re: Rewriteable Optical Disks
Re: Wanted: Investment Strategy Software
Hpat virus- it is a slightly modified nVIR 'B'.
Re: Wanted: Investment Strategy Software
PageMaker 3.0 Problems
Arabic Fonts and Editors ?
Screen font names <-> PS font names
Re: Simple instructional SCSI manager program wanted
Re: Screen font names <-> PS font names
looking for Layer Mgr docs
a message box for the finder?
Re: Wish-List: Decent MIDI support for the Macintosh
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-006.txt; 40K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:30 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #7
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 7
Today's Topics:
Re: Dialogs in Init Code
Re: Landscape printing?
Re: Dialogs in Init Code
Re: ethernet overflow errors (2 messages)
Suggestion for virus prevention
Re: Source for laser cartridges?
Re: Radius/Fullwrite
Re: Suggestion for virus prevention
CDEV and INIT sample code request
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
Re: Screenfonts: Adobe or Apple?
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
Modal dialogs vs. layer switching
Re: Screenfonts: Adobe or Apple?
thesaurus
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
STR# rsrc question
Re: Map CDev
Open Resource File List
Re: Command Key D.A.s (a message box for the finder?)
Re: Dialogs in Init Code
Re: Suggestion for virus prevention
Re: STR# rsrc question
Re: Suggestion for virus prevention
Detecting 3rd Party Math Co-Processors.. How?
ftp File ownership
Re: 4th Dimension Mailing Label Question
Re: thesaurus
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-007.txt; 38K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:33 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #8
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 8
Today's Topics:
Tex on Macs ??
X Windows under Mac OS?
Application-independent laserwriter printing default
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
Fans for Mac Plus - information requested
Re: Macintosh External Hard Disks recommended
Virtual memory init
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
P-system for the Mac
Canvas upgrade, lies
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: Tex on Macs ??
Re: SoftStyle Corp.
Phonetic (IPA) font wanted
MATHEMATICA on the MAC II -- Summary
Virtual Memory for Mac II -- report from a beta-test site
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: MATHEMATICA on the MAC II -- Summary
Anyone heard of 'Liaison'?
Re: thesaurus
Re: Tear of Menu's (Theeere HEEEeer!)
Attention Rodime Users
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
HD40 SC high pitch squeal
Re: Sad Mac error codes
Re: Need help finding manual for OMTI disc controllers
Internal Hard Disk Indicator?
disk labeling s/w
[Archived as /info-mac/usenetv5-008.txt; 38K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 19:15:14 PST
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Version 1.1 of Audio CD Demo Stack
This stack is a demonstration version of the Audio CD stack
which provides a series of XCMDS for controlling the play of
Audio CDs from HyperCard using the Apple CD SCSI drive. In
the Demo stack, you can try out all of the XCMDs, but if the
XCMDs are moved to another stack, they will not work.
However, you can modify the "Try It" button scripts to try
out all of the features of the XCMDs. Feel free to copy this
stack and pass it along to friends, provided that you do not
modify the stack in any way, and in particular that all of
the copyright notices are left intact. The Audio CD stack
itself, with "unprotected" XCMDS that you can use in your
own stacks, can be ordered for $25 -- information is
provided in the stack. Feel free to send comments, bug
reports etc. to me at PROMAN @ UVVM.
Version 1.1 fixes a minor bug in a closeCard handler on the
TrackPlay XCMD and TimePlay XCMD cards.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/audio-cd-demo-11.hqx]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:34:47 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Zapf Chancery screen fonts
Here are the screen fonts for Zapf Chancery, in BinHex format from a
StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA Mover file. This font only comes in
italic and bold italic versions, so that's all there is here. As script
fonts go (they tend to be really corny), this one is pretty nice. It's
built into the LaserWriter Plus and similar printers, as well as the
LaserWriter II NT and NTX.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/zapf-chancery.hqx; 24K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:40:50 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Zapf Dingbats screen fonts
Here are the screen fonts for Zapf Dingbats, in a BinHex file of a
StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA Mover file. This font doesn't come
in italic styles, so those fonts aren't in here. This is a font of
symbols, like arrows, hands, and other things, that come in handy every
once in a while. This font is built in to the LaserWriter Plus, II NT and
II NTX, and other printers that come with lots of fonts. You can get
some interesting and useful effects by using this font in outline and
shadow styles.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/zapf-dingbats.hqx; 29K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
------------------------------
End of Info-Mac Digest
******************************