FUCHS@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ira Fuchs) (10/23/89)
Can someone who has used Frame (and maybe even seen the documentation) answer any of these questions? 1. It appears that Frame (like Writenow) still uses Printer Font spacing on the screen. This results in spacing which looks different on the screen from what is printed. Is this true? If so, is Frame changing to use different widths for each? 2. Is there a way to apply a Postscript "special effect" to a portion of text in a Frame document? Say for example one has some PS code which tilts a font or some such. Is there a way to embed this in a document and see the result on screen? 3. Does Frame support variable kerning? That is can I select a piece of text (part of a word, part of a sentence, etc.) and ask Frame to "tighten it up", a little, a lot, or whatever? 4. Can Frame be used in a mode where you create a template and only have pointers to files which are read in when the document is constructed? In other words can I keep the text of a document and the formatting separate so that I can go on making changes to a set of separate files which constitute the final document? I believe that Ventura Publisher can work this way (Pagemaker cannot). As an example, imagine a newsletter "template" which describes the basic layout (editorials, events calendar, etc.) but where these pieces are kept in files which are edited outside of Frame. I would like Frame to construct the document by reading these files in and formatting based on the template each time. Frame would not store the entire formatted document unless requested to do so. Can do?
langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner) (10/25/89)
In article <9977@pucc.Princeton.EDU> FUCHS@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes: >Can someone who has used Frame (and maybe even seen the documentation) answer >any of these questions? I can't answer with certainty your first, second and fourth questions, but... >3. Does Frame support variable kerning? That is can I select a piece of text >(part of a word, part of a sentence, etc.) and ask Frame to "tighten it up", >a little, a lot, or whatever? Frame has excellent kerning control. There are keyboard shortcuts for really tiny movements, but in general I have found the Point Spread item in the Fonts requestor to be sufficient. Here's how it works: 1. Highlight the text whose spacing you wish to alter (can be as little as one character). 2. Bring up the Fonts requestor, either through the menu or with ESC-f. 3. Click in the Point Spread entry field. 4. Enter your desired point spread. The point spread is an offset applied to inter-character spacing in the selected region. It can be positive (letters spaced more widely), negative (tightened up), or zero (default spacing). I don't know if you can use fractional amounts, since integral spacing adjustments have been sufficient for my needs to date. -- Be seeing you... --Lang Zerner langz@asylum.sf.ca.us UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu "...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!"