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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 ******************************