JMURRELL@DRUNIVAC.BITNET (IF MUSIC BE FOOD OF LOVE.....) (02/02/90)
Has anyone tried using the same bitstream Softfonts (Fontware) which you installed for Pagemaker with WordPerfect? If so, please let me know. Thanks.
U26264@UICVM.BITNET (Grant Hoover) (02/04/90)
On Friday, February 2, 1990, <JMURRELL@DRUNIVAC.BITNET> asks, "Has anyone tried using the same bitstream Softfonts (Fontware) which you installed for Pagemaker with WordPerfect?" Yes, I have, and it works quite well. But I cheat. I use SoftCraft's installation programs. These programs generate Bitstream fonts and install Bitstream and other fonts in Windows and WordPerfect. Specifically, the SoftCraft Fontware Program takes a typeface outline package and produces font files in any sizes from 3 to 120 points. This performs the same function as Bitstream's own, but does it faster and works seamlessly with WYSIfonts!. SoftCraft's WYSIfonts! provides menu-driven installation of fonts for Windows, Pagemaker, and Ventura Publisher. It installs existing soft fonts as well as fonts produced by the SoftCraft Fontware Program. SoftCraft's Laser Fonts installs fonts for WordPerfect 5.0. The company also sells installation programs for other word processors. To use the programs, you start out as you would with Bitstream's product. You specify what point sizes you want to generate for each of the outlines you have installed on your disk, and then the SoftCraft Fontware Program generates the font files and automatically passes control to Laser Fonts and WYSIfonts! to do the program-specific installation. It works very well. Miscellaneous HP-compatible bit-mapped fonts you might have lying around from any source can also be installed to do double duty in WordPerfect and Pagemaker. Of course, all this can be controlled manually if, for example, you simply want to add a couple of fonts to one program only. Another neat feature of Laser Fonts is its ability to "clean up" your WordPerfect .ALL file by removing font definitions for any fonts that are not currently present on your hard drive. This is useful for getting rid of all those font definitions that come with the WordPerfect driver, but for which nobody has the fonts. I enthusiatically recommend these programs, and suggest that those interested take a look at some of SoftCraft's other products, such as the Font Editor, Font Effects, and SpinFont. No, I'm not affiliated with this company. Grant Hoover University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois . . Bitnet: U26264@UICVM . Compuserve: 76370,314 \___/