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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 GraphicLight font. Here is what
- Richard Mitchell (the font's developer) says about GraphicLight:
-
- I first saw Graphic Light back in the middle Seventies when the Baltimore Type
- Foundry was closing down and selling off its remaining stock of metal types. I
- liked it, but I don't clearly know why. Maybe it was its unusual "ft"
- ligature, maybe the small x-height. I bought lots of it, in several sizes, and
- even set a few small pamphlets in it.
-
- When Macintosh came along, Graphic Light was one of countless typographical
- treasures that I was no longer able to use. So, since no big company is likely
- to reproduce it, and since Fontographer 3.x makes the work so easy, I have
- done it myself. It is a Christmas ('89) gift to any and all from The
- Underground Grammarian.
-
- If you use it for blocks of text, always try it first set solid, that is, with
- a line spacing equal to its size, 12 on 12, for instance. The face, because of
- its small x-height, is very small on the body, and the lines will fly apart
- with too much leading. Since youÕre setting type on a computer, you can even
- use a negative leading. I have made a few attractive pages using 13 point type
- leaded 12.5 points. Works well.
-
- And a Merry Christmas to all from
-
- Richard Mitchell
- Associate Circulation Editor
-
- If you use this font in a publication, I'd like to hear from you. Write me at:
-
- The Underground Grammarian
- Post Office Box 203
- Glassboro, NJ 08028
-
- Or you can send CISMail to 71611,332.
-
- GraphicLight 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 GRAPHICLIGHT FONT:
-
- 1. Copy the GRAPHLIG.PFB file to your \PSFONTS directory.
-
- 2. Copy the GRAPHLIG.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..." GraphicLight to your list of ATM
- fonts. You will have to open the \PSFONTS\PFM directory to allow ATM to see
- your GraphicLight 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\GRAPHLIG.PFM
-
- You'll need to change this to:
-
- softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\GRAPHLIG.PFM,c:\psfonts\GRAPHLIG.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. GraphicLight 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. It runs on the $999.00
- Macintosh Classic which has a 1.44Mb FDHD Superdrive capable of formatting and
- writing a PC 3-1/2" diskette. 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. They can be
- installed using the above instructions.
-
- 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
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