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From: walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norman Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,news.answers
Subject: comp.fonts FAQ: Amiga Info
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Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts.
It addresses both general font questions and questions that
are specific to a particular platform.
Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.fonts:10180 news.answers:12795
Archive-name: fonts-faq/part10
Version: 2.0.2
Subject: 8. Amiga Information
This section needs a lot of work. At the time of this release, I'm not
in a position to write it so I'm leaving it basically blank. Even if
you don't have time to write it, if you know what _should_ be in this
section, please forward it to norm.
Adobe Type 1 fonts for the Amiga
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Darrell Leland contributes the following information:
There are now three high end DTP packages for the Amiga that can
directly or indirectly use Adobe Type 1 Fonts or AGFA Compugraphic
fonts. The best of the lot in both my and Amiga World's opinions is
SoftLogik's Pagestream, currently in version 2.2 but about to go to
version 3.0. Pagestream can take Adobe fonts in MS-DOS format directly
with no format conversion needed. All you have to do is get them on an
Amiga format disk, which is very easy using the new version of
Commodore's Workbench operating system. Pagestream has import modules
for MacWrite, Adobe Illustrator, and every other format in the universe
(seems like). It is generally a very stable and well behaved program
with a lot of features. I haven't had a chance to see 3.0 yet, but they
are claiming it's going to be a real killer. We shall see. It does color
seps, twists and rotates fonts, etc. Pagestream's job has been made
easier with Commodore's (about time) release of their own Postscript
printer drivers and Preferences postscript printer control tools.
SoftLogik also sells a program called Typesmith, which is (at last!) a
structured font maker/editor for the Amiga. Typesmith will work with
both formats mentioned above plus SoftLogik's own font format, which I
get the impression they are discontinuing in favor of Postscript. They
also sell ArtExpression, a very nice structured drawing package that
does everything I can think of. I understand SoftLogik has also been
getting several Mac and PC font makers to make Amiga fonts for them too.
They even have a program system that allows programs to publish to other
programs, sort of like in Mac System 7.0. They are lisencing it out to
any Amiga developer who pays a paltry sum to lisence it.