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- From: swank@cais.com (Robert D. Swank)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Font Sample Printing Utility?
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 00:52:36 GMT
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- Mike Gratis (ironman@four.net) wrote:
- :
- : On 08-Mar-96 21:19:26 in comp.sys.amiga.misc while talking to All,
- : Michael Martin wrote:
- :
- : >I'm looking for a utility that will print samples of either Postscript
- : >or Compugraphic fonts without having to install them on my HardDrive
- : >(i.e read the font from a CD Rom font collection and print out a
- : >sample).
- :
- : I'll 2nd that request! <g> Anyone who deals with desktop
- : publishing and /a lot/ of fonts (...maybe even on several
- : CDs),absolutely must have a program like this -- Or risk going totally
- : insane trying to sort out fonts from cryptic names like "ALB0021" or
- : "ZARN013"....
-
- Well, the good news is, if you have PageStream 3.0x, it has an Arexx
- Macro that does exactly that. It reads the list of fonts you have added
- to Pagestream, alphabetizes them, and then prints a complet character set
- of the font. You can print one font per page, or 6 fonts per page. the
- macro creates the page, sends it to the printer and deletes the page, and
- starts over with the next page, so as to minimise the amount of memory
- needed.
-
- I have successfully created iff images and HPlaserJet print
- files of the pages by redirecting the printer output to a file, etc, to
- get a permanent reusable file, but this takes a lot of messing around.
-
- I am also working on a modification of the Macro to print 12 fonts per
- page in landscape mode, instead of the 6 in portrait mode.
-
- The bad news is, Pagestream 3.0h2 causes serious enforcer hits when
- running SoftLogic's original macro and it seems to be worse with my
- modified
- macro. Yes, I tried to use it without enforcer running, only to have it
- lock up my 3000T completely on a random, but often, basis.
-
- Well, maybe PageStream 3.0i has fixed the problem, which appears to be a
- long read or long write error when entering text into a field. The first
- issue of Pagestream 3.0 caused this hit EVERY time I entered text even
- into a clean page, now it seems to be much better........
-
- Here's hoping.....
-
- Bob
-