dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin) (09/11/90)
I had a lot of problems getting Adobe TypeAlign to run on my Mac+. The system (6.0.5) just crashed when I started the DA. Finally, I got it working when I removed the routines from Macintosh Communications Toolbox 1.0, which was not a very easy thing to do as there is no way you can deinstall these routines. TypeAlign is nice, but it seems to point to a problem with characters represented in Type 1 format. For instance, there is no way a single character can be shown in true perspective. The transformation performed on each character seems to be a simple linear projection. The program will attempt to appear having more advanced projections by varying the projection for each character in a text, but the result is often not very convincing. Are there other programs (or font representations) that are more capable in this respect? /Dan Sahlin email: dan@sics.se
jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (09/12/90)
In article <1990Sep11.164329.27751@sics.se> dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin) writes: >I had a lot of problems getting Adobe TypeAlign to run on my Mac+. >The system (6.0.5) just crashed when I started the DA. >Finally, I got it working when I removed the routines from Macintosh >Communications Toolbox 1.0, which was not a very easy thing to do as there >is no way you can deinstall these routines. I don't know anything about this possible incompatibility with TypeAlign, but the Installer script for the Comm Toolbox does include a deinstall procedure. Unfortunately, the Installer's method of allowing access to this procedure is badly-designed: you need to click the Custom button, then, in the Custom screen, hold down the option key. The Install button in the Custom screen changes to Remove when the option key is held down. -- ========= jeanne a. e. devoto ======================================== jdevoto@apple.com | You may not distribute this article under a jdevoto@well.sf.ca.us | compilation copyright without my permission. ______________________________________________________________________ Apple Computer and I are not authorized | CI$: 72411,165 to speak for each other. |
alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg) (09/13/90)
In article <1990Sep11.164329.27751@sics.se> dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin) writes: > Finally, I got it working when I removed the routines from Macintosh > Communications Toolbox 1.0, which was not a very easy thing to do as there > is no way you can deinstall these routines. You can remove them. Start up from the Comm Toolbox Installation Disk again. Run the Installer. When you get to the custom install dialog (the one with the list of items you can install), hold down the option key. The Install button will change to Remove. Click on the items you want to remove, and Option click the Install button (now the Remove button, because you have the Option key down when you click on it). Items that can't be safely removed will become grey when you hold down the Option key, and can't be selected in the list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Alexander M. Rosenberg - INTERNET: alexr@apple.com - Yoyodyne - - 330 1/2 Waverley St. - UUCP:ucbvax!apple!alexr - Propulsion - - Palo Alto, CA 94301 - - Systems - - (415) 329-8463 - Nobody is my employer so - :-) - - (408) 974-3110 - nobody cares what I say. - -
baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) (09/13/90)
In article <44728@apple.Apple.COM>, jdevoto@Apple (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) writes: >I don't know anything about this possible incompatibility with TypeAlign, >but the Installer script for the Comm Toolbox does include a deinstall >procedure. Unfortunately, the Installer's method of allowing access >to this procedure is badly-designed: you need to click the Custom >button, then, in the Custom screen, hold down the option key. The >Install button in the Custom screen changes to Remove when the option >key is held down. Boy I wish you guys at Apple would practice what you preach. Why bother publishing all those Human Interface Notes when you're just going to go and indulge your passion for "secret keys" at every available opportunity? Is there something wrong with having a button that's labeled "Remove"? Hey, here's an idea. Why not have a short menus and long menus mode? And you could even have lots of commands that aren't available from either the keyboard or the menu bar, but just in a scrolling command list... The possibilities are, unfortunately, endless. (BTW, this is not directed at Jeanne DeVoto, but at Apple in general. I'm always amazed that a company that could come up with something as elegant and useful as the new Help mode in the System 7.0 Finder can also load down nearly every piece of System software with secret -- and unfriendly -- "power user" keys.) -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman