Name............. Publisher's Companion
Publisher........  Micro R&D 
Price............ US $15
CDROMs........... 1
Used Space....... 131 Mb
Language......... Not relevant
Bootable......... No
Filesystem....... Information not available.
Requirements..... -
Usable Software.. 100% except as noted:

                  Amiga KS1.3+ ............. No CG fonts
                  Amiga KS2.1+ ............. 100% (probably)
                  Amiga KS3.0+ .............  75% of the Games
                  Amiga KS3.0+ AGA .........  75% of the Games
                  IBM PC WIN3.1 ............   0% of the Games

Release Date..... 1994

Contents......... 600 Amiga fonts, 670 Adobe Type 1 PostScript
                  fonts (.pfb and .afm files only, shareware),
                  670 Compugraphic fonts, 1200 EPS images,
                  1800 black & white IFF images, 24 Amiga
                  games (shareware).

Access Software.. None.  No icons for drawers or files; use
                  Shell or a directory utility to view
                  contents.  Many programs can use the fonts
                  right on the CD-ROM (see below) without need
                  for an icon.

Comments......... PageStream users:  If you have .pfb and
                  .afm files for these fonts, banish them from
                  your hard disk, update their directoriess
                  with the font manager and add the CD-ROM
                  PostScript subdirectories (AtoG and HtoZ) to
                  your fontlist.  Keep your .abf screen fonts
                  - PageStream can use them on your HD while
                  it takes the corresponding printer fonts
                  from the CD-ROM.
                  
                  The Workbench and applications that use
                  Amiga and Compugraphic fonts (e.g., DPaint,
                  DeluxeMusic) need to find them in your
                  fonts: directory.  It would be better to
                  copy fonts you like to that directory
                  (normally sys:fonts) than to assign fonts:
                  to a CD-ROM disk that might not be available
                  at boot time.  There may be utilities that
                  allow these applications to access more than
                  one path.

Testers Opinion.. "Manna for the font-gourmand!  Instantly
                  tripled the number of PostScript fonts I'd
                  collected in seven greedy years, and freed
                  up many megabytes of hard disk space.  All
                  the fonts appear to work well with
                  PageStream.  Access is slower with my 2x CD-
                  ROM drive than on my hard disk; the impact
                  will depend on how often you add fonts to a
                  document.
                  
                  I did not test any of the other font
                  formats.  The Compugraphic fonts work with
                  PageStream or AmigaDOS (2.0 or higher), but
                  in many cases duplicate the Adobe fonts.
                  
                  The pious message on the disk case about
                  supporting shareware font authors is a
                  fraud.  The readme files that are archived
                  with the same fonts online have been
                  dropped, like the Adobe bitmapped screen
                  fonts, from the CD, despite more than 500 Mb
                  of unused space.
                  
                  The games are familiar and unexciting; many
                  have much more recent versions on Fred Fish,
                  Aminet, etc.  Many of these crashed my A3000
                  (running AmigaDOS 3.1 with a PicassoII
                  graphics board), not unusual for PD and
                  commercial games written too narrowly for
                  AmigaDOS 1.3 or 2.x. " Bill Falls (bfalls@cais.com)
                     
Keywords......... Fonts, Clipart, Games

Sources.......... Bill Falls (bfalls@cais.com)