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- Dear PC font user:
-
- We at Altsys are proud to announce the availability of Fontographer
- 3.2, the first Macintosh PostScript font program that can produce
- fonts for the ATM (Adobe Type Manager) Windows environment on MS-DOS
- computers.
-
- Accompanying this README.TXT file is the BlackChancery font. It is
- fully compatible with ATM for Windows, allowing it to be seen on
- screen at any size, and print to any printer that has a Windows
- driver.
-
- INSTALLING THE BLACKCHANCERY FONT:
-
- 1. Copy the BLACKCHA.PFB file to your \PSFONTS directory.
-
- 2. Copy the BLACKCHA.PFM file to your \PSFONTS\PFM directory. (You can
- ignore the .AFM file since it is not useful with Windows. It may be
- useful to people running GEM applications, however.)
-
- 3. Open the ATM Control Panel and "Add..." BlackChancery to your list
- of ATM fonts. You will have to open the \PSFONTS\PFM directory to
- allow ATM to see your BlackChancery font.
-
- 4. If you have a PostScript printer, the following will be necessary.
- If your printer does not have PostScript, ignore this step. Open your
- WIN.INI file with the Windows Notepad program. (Do you have a backup
- of it? If not, make one now.) At the end of the "softfonts" list, you
- will see something like:
-
- softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\BLACKCHA.PFM
-
- You'll need to change this to:
-
- softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\BLACKCHA.PFM,c:\psfonts\BLACKCHA.PFB
-
- Doing this allows the Windows PostScript driver to find your .PFB file
- and download it to your PostScript printer. DO NOT use a semicolon
- between the two entries or you will cause some rather unpleasant
- problems.
-
- You should now exit Windows and restart. BlackChancery will now show
- up in your Windows programs' font menus and you'll be able to choose
- it and use it like any other font. ATM will allow you to see the font
- in all sizes and print it smoothly at all sizes.
-
-
- INFORMATION ABOUT FONTOGRAPHER 3.2:
-
- Fontographer 3.2 runs only on Macintosh computers. The basic Macintosh
- Classic that retails for $999.00 (street price: c. $850.00) is ALL you
- need to make Fontographer 3.2 give you PC fonts for ATM in Windows.
- The Classic has a 1.44Mb floppy drive that can accommodate a System,
- Fontographer, and a font or two. Apple includes a System program with
- the Classic called Apple File Exchange. AFE can format a PC floppy and
- allow you to copy files from the Macintosh directly to the PC floppy
- [31/2", of course]. Fontographer 3.2 retails for $495.00 and is
- available from all reputable dealers of Macintosh software.
-
- To make fonts for Windows with ATM from Fontographer 3.2 you can do
- the following:
-
- 1. Draw the font or autotrace it from scanned images pasted into
- Fontographer 3.2's Edit window. If you have already made Fontographer
- fonts, you can use the "Open font..." dialog from the File menu to
- open the font and allow its conversion to PC format. If you have PC
- PostScript fonts you wish to modify, you can download them to any
- Adobe PostScript printer that can simultaneously communicate with both
- Macintoshes and PC's, then use Altsys' Metamorphosis (retail $149.00)
- to convert the fonts to Fontographer format on the Macintosh.
-
- 2. Select all the characters in the font and use the Path menu's
- "Correct path direction" item to make sure that the path directions in
- the font are correct.
-
- 3. While all the characters are still selected, use the Edit menu's
- "Char info..." item to make sure that all the characters in the font
- are filled with "Normal" fill and a "Tint" of 100% (DO NOT check the
- "Stroke" checkbox, since Adobe rules do not allow stroked characters
- in Type 1 fonts).
-
- 4. Use the Edit menu's "Font attributes..." dialog to turn on the
- "Automatic PostScript and bitmap hints", "Generate Type 1 fonts", and
- "Adobe standard character encoding" checkboxes. Do not turn on the
- "Use Flex feature if possible" checkbox unless you are absolutely
- certain that your font can benefit from Flex.
-
- 5. Use the File menu's "Generate fonts..." dialog and choose the
- "PostScript-PC" item from the "Outline format:" popup menu. To save
- time, you can choose the "None" item from the "Bitmap format:" popup
- menu, since you will not need to generate any kind of bitmap file. OK
- this dialog and the result will be the .AFM, .PFB, and .PFM files
- described above.
-
- 6. Start Apple File Exchange and format an MS-DOS floppy (Erase disk
- from the File menu). Use the left hand file dialog to find your .PFB
- and .PFM files. Select them and press the Translate button. AFE will
- use its default file translation (basically no changes except external
- file format). Eject the floppy from the Macintosh using the Eject
- button and bring it to your 3-1/2" disk-equipped MS-DOS machine.
- Insert the floppy and follow the above directions for installing the
- font.
-
- For further information about Fontographer 3.2, call or write:
-
- Altsys Corporation
- 269 W. Renner Rd.
- Richardson, TX 75080
- Phone: (214) 680-2060
-
- CompuServe: 76004,2071
- FAX: (214) 680-0537
- MCI Mail: ALTSYS
- AppleLink: D0590
- America Online: Altsys