Font foundries: ParaFont, Fontographer, FontStudio
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Design Science Inc's (Long Beach, CA) $99 ParaFont PostScript font editor, Letraset USA's (Paramus, NJ) $595 FontStudio PostScript type foundry and Altsys Corp's (Plano, TX) $495 Fontographer PostScript type foundry are all highly rated software packages for customizing fonts to the user's needs. ParaFont is a fast and easy-to-use tool for 'combining and expanding' PostScript fonts, including creating 'condensed, expanded or oblique type;' mixing characters from different fonts, and changing the thickness of the outline. Fontographer and FontStudio are both font foundries able to create PostScript outline fonts for the printer and bit-mapped screen fonts. Both programs feature multiple windows and can print fonts in a variety of formats. FontStudio offers many more features than Fontographer, but the latter is easier to learn. Features of all three programs are described.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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Smooth characters; Mac screen fonts have never looked better
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Adobe Systems Inc's $99 Type Manager (ATM) brings screen-font display closer to reality than any display has before, making it the smoothest possible path to a perfect final page. Type Manager enables users to kern accurately on screen, eliminating the guess work as to how pages will look when printed. ATM's main competitor is System 7.0 from Apple Computer Inc, due Spring 1990. ATM is compatible only with Adobe Type 1 fonts, and System 7.0 will be compatible with only Apple's Royal format. ATM requires a mere 1Mbyte of RAM, a hard disk or two floppy drives and Apple system software 6.0.2 or later. ATM has only one drawback, the combination of ATM and a dot matrix printer can cause uneven character spacing when printing from programs that do not allow fractional spacing.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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On display: the future in smooth screen characters
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A complaint among desktop publishers is that the image on the screen does not accurately represent the image on the printed page. Next Inc offers Display Postscript which smoothes out characters by using the outline fonts it uses for printing. Adobe Systems Inc has announced the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) to smooth out on-screen imaging and Apple Computer's version of outline screen fonts will be included in System Tools 7.0. A 'dumb' printer such as the Imagewriter will be able to print smooth type once the Macintosh is able to image printer fonts. The upcoming version of OS/2 promises to include a similar type-imaging capability.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1989
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