bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard) (09/25/90)
Does anyone have an opinion as to which product is best for utilizing a Laserjet (IIP) with Windows? I'm in need of good font management, screen fonts included, with minimal disc space. I've heard of Bitstream Facelift and Adobe Type Manager. I guess these products fit this description. Can someone tell me what the differences are between the two products, and/or which is best and why? --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Lee Bollard unix: bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com | | Hewlett-Packard HPDesk: Lee BOLLARD / HP1000/53 | | Spokane Division | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) (10/02/90)
Lee M. Bollard <bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> writes: > I've heard of Bitstream Facelift and Adobe Type Manager. I guess these > products fit this description. Can someone tell me what the differences > are between the two products, and/or which is best and why? Well, I bought FaceLift without really knowing very much about it -- but it was only $69 so I thought I'd take a chance. Anyway, I received it yesterday, and here are some impressions. The package includes Swiss and Dutch (yeah, they're Helvetica and Times Roman, really) in roman, italic, bold and bold italic. It also includes Park Avenue, Cooper Black, Brush Script, Formal Script (Ondine) and Monospace 821 (Helvetica monospace). All fonts are scalable (yeah! Love those 144-point fonts on screen!) and are dumped to the LaserJet in graphics form. The package can also pregenerate LaserJet soft fonts from the outlines for greater speed, and has lots of fine-tuning available. The fonts are of high quality (especially on the printer), although the screen display of the font is somewhat slower than the standard screen fonts. All in all, the package seems like an excellent value for $69. Anyway, I did some performance tests. I have a 386/25 with a 2MB Smartdrive, 5 MB for Windows and a LaserJet II on parallel port. I was running in 386 enhanced mode, and spooler priority was set to High. The two numbers are for Word for Windows to finish feeding data to the spooler, and for me to get the last page out of the printer. 1. Two-page resume, four different fonts (including heading font) VS Software soft font 40 sec 50 sec FaceLift, graphics 50 sec 70 sec 2. One-page letter, one font VS Software soft font 5 sec 13 sec FaceLift, graphics 10 sec 25 sec FaceLift, pregen soft font 5 sec 14 sec So there *is* a significant performance penalty (especialy for documents with few different fonts), but this can be avoided by pregenerating the common fonts. It looks like I'll have the most common fonts preloaded permanently into the LaserJet, and then have most of the other sizes that I use regularly pregenerated onto the disk. Has anyone used ATM yet? [ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]