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FontGeist
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copyright 1993 Jonathan Z. Simon
version 0.1
Requires SuperATM & ResEdit (and a strong lust for fonts).
FontGeist is a completely harmless, extremely small (under 3K),
virtually intefaceless application, with one sole purpose in
life: to make "Ghost Fonts".
A Ghost font is a font that does not exist on your system, but
you'd like it to, and can't get the real thing.
SuperATM has the ability to create fonts out of thin air (so to
speak), so long as it is one of the thousand or so fonts in
its knowledge base. Usually to invoke SuperATM you open a file
which uses a font which you don't have. SuperATM then creates
a virtual font with all the same dimensional characteristics,
so you don't lose your old line-spacing and character
placement in that file.
FontGeist's only purpose in life (and beyond) is to reference
a font by name, which SuperATM then makes a virtual version of.
A Scenerio:
Let's say you want a really weighty font for your latest
desktop publishing extravaganza. You look through Adobe's
lastest catalog and notice that "Impact" would do well.
Unfortunately you don't have Impact.
Fortunately you don't really care what the precise bells and
whistles of Impact's individual characters look like, you
just like its overall tone.
Enter FontGeist.
Add the name of the font ("Impact") to FontGeist's list.
Double-click on FontGeist.
The cursor will momentarilly turn into a spinning lowercase
"a", and then FontGeist quits.
Any application that you open up afterwards will have Impact
added to its Font menu, and you can use it in any application
that supports fonts (don't wait too long to open another
application, or SuperATM will get bored with its virtual font
and throw it away until you use FontGeist again).
It's very similar to using the Font Builder application
that comes with SuperATM, but it works for many, many more
fonts, and the resulting file takes up much, much less
disk space.
You can create multiple copies of FontGeist with different
font lists for different moods.
Details:
For this version of FontGeist, the only way to add to or change
the list of fonts is with ResEdit. If you don't know how to
use or don't have ResEdit, ask for help from a local Mac guru.
The font names are stored in STR# resources. FontGeist does its
magic on all font names in the STR# resource with item number
1, then, if it exists, #2, and so on until it runs out of
numbers (they must be continuously numbered from 1).
Each STR# resource is a list of strings, which in this case
must be font names. The way you add strings (font names) to
a STR# resource is to click once on the *******, and then
choose "Insert New Field(s)" from the Resource Menu (or type
Command-K). The way to remove old strings is to click once on
its set of ******* and type the delete (or backspace) key.
The fonts must be named exactly as the SuperATM requires them
(and spelled correctly), or nothing will happen. Nothing bad
will EVER happen with FontGeist, but if you put in the wrong
name, nothing interesting will happen either. This means,
for instance, that if you want to use the Folio font (one
which I recommend highly because its virtual version looks
a lot like its real live version), you must use the names
"B Folio Bold", "M Folio Medium", and "L Folio Light" for
the Bold, Medium, and Light versions, respectively. If you
just use the name "Folio", no ghost font will be created.
You need to find out the name of the font (the exact Macintosh
name that is, not the postscript name or the name in the
font catalog). Accompanying this file, you should have gotten
another text file called Some Adobe Font Names. This list is
neither exhaustive nor exclusive (i.e. not all fonts that
SuperATM can create are here, and there are probably some
here that SuperATM cannot create), but what they hey,
FontGeist is free.
Enjoy and have fun! Feed your font-mania in a virtual-font╨fest!
Make your Font menu longer than anyone else's on your block!
Jonathan Z. Simon
Bitnet address: jsimon@umdhep
Internet address: jsimon@umdhep.umd.edu
Mail: Jonathan Simon, 170 Chestnut St., Newton MA 02165 USA.
Legal considerations: I hold all copyrights to FontGeist, but
it is free to be distributed to whomever wants to try it or
use it, with one exception: if anyone distributes FontGeist on
a CD-ROM, they must allow me to purchase that CD-ROM at cost.
This document must accompany FontGeist.
If you love FontGeist so much that you write your own
version with a real interface, please (1) give me credit
for inspiring you and (2) please send me copy so I don't
have to rely on ResEdit myself!