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              Using Adobe Type with Professional Page

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Introduction

Welcome to salvation for you type-hungry Pro-Page users.  This is the first
package of its kind for the Amiga, and it's all shareware!

I'm sure Gold Disk, inc. won't be too impressed when people stop buying their
pre-made .metric files, but they really won't mind because you dumb people
will be buying Compugraphic outline screen fonts from them.  Don't worry,
though.  I'll get to that little problem soon enough.

Put it this way:  Compugraphic doesn't have the selection that Adobe has.
You'll never find Adobe Garamond or Utopia (The Adobe Originals), or their
expert collections in CG format.  You'll never find a wider selection of
service bureaus than those who support PostScript output.  They all have
modems.  They all have either a LaserWriter at 300 DPI with every Adobe
typeface that exists, or a 2400 DPI typesetter with all of the above, all at
your fingertips.

Problem is, you need screen fonts and metric files to access that vast
library of Adobe, or other PostScript type.  And you had to be a Macintosh
user to get those... until now!

With this package you can download or file transfer Macintosh screen fonts,
Mac or IBM format .AFM metric files, and from them create Amiga screen fonts
and PPage .metric files.  And give yourself an open door to the library of
Adobe and PostScript type!

Here's what you'll find here:

1) ConvertAFM:  This wonder creates .metric files from Adobe (or other) .AFM
files.  Any commercial or PD Macintosh PostScript typeface uses .AFMs.
Also, kerning information is recorded (Tested with Adobe Garamond which uses
over 600 (!) kerning pairs) and is made available by selecting 'Kerning'
from PPage's Type menu.  Written in the fastest language next to C or
Assembler:  HiSoft BASIC.  Watch this thing fly!

2) Rico Mariani's MacFont Package:  This package converts Macintosh FONT or
NFNT resources to Amiga screen fonts.  Macintosh screen fonts provide the
best possible screen display without going to outline fonts, therefore
saving precious memory.  PPage 1.3 and 1.31 scale down large point sizes, so
on a 24-pin or HP printer you'll still get great proofs, and at 200%
magnification you can actually read 4 point text!

3) UnStuffIt, or UnSIT.  This will unarchive Macintosh .SIT files allowing
the Amiga user easy access to a service bureau's screen fonts by downloading
.SIT files.  Current version doesn't support 'RLE' compression, so make sure
your service bureau disables 'RLE' compression, or if this isn't possible,
to disable compression all together.

4) ISOLatin1:  New keymap for users of Mac screen fonts.  Uses CTRL key in
combination with ALT and SHIFT-ALT to simulate the Macintosh keymap.  Great
for font-specific encoded typefaces whose characters aren't accessable by
the Amiga usa1 keymap, yet allows full compatibility with the usa1 keymap,
including the extra keypad keys on the A500 and A2000.

This package is shareware.  If anyone knows Rico Mariani's address, please
send him $20.00 US for the MacFont package.  Please send whoever wrote
UnStuffIt $20.00 US as well.  Without him, I'd still be trying to find a way
to get Mac screen fonts on the Amiga.  Please send me $30.00 US or $40.00
Canadian for ConvertAFM (The toughest program I've written yet, simply
because Gold Disk has no documentation on their .metric file format, and I
spent most of Christmas '89 cracking it) and for the ISOLatin1 keymap.  Send
my Shareware fees to:

Gordon Fecyk
PPage Adobe Font Access Package
296 Cheriton Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R2G 0E7, Canada

If you do, I'll send upgrades of ConvertAFM, and a disk with Adobe Packages
1 to 13 screen fonts (Including Optima, ITC Machine, and Helvetica Light
/Black for use with PPage or any Amiga program that uses screen fonts.
Please note that screen fonts may be given away (According to Adobe Systems)
on condition that the user uses the services of the service bureau that gave
him the screen fonts in the first place.  Call Adobe Systems(1-800-83-FONTS)
for more details.  You can also order Adobe screen fonts from the same
number.

Copyright notices:  Adobe, PostScript, The Adobe Originals, and any font
names I speak of in this documentation, are trademarks of Adobe Systems,
inc.  Professional Page is a product of Gold Disk, inc.  and the .metric
file format is property of Gold Disk.  Because of this, I can't give source
code for ConvertAFM.  NFNT format, FONT format, Apple, Macintosh, and
LaseWriter are copywritten by Apple Computer, inc.  (Go ahead... sue me!)
MacFont is the creation of Rico Mariani.  Amiga is a trademark of
Commodore-Amiga limited (But what limit is there to the Amiga, eh?)

Have fun, and welcome to a new world of type!