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- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.roaiWz2vock@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: One of these days for sure
- Subject: Re: Calamus font trouble
- References: <A5600@HB.maus.de> <A9208@MZ.maus.de>
- <1992Jul23.035709.11573@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:23:18 -0700
- Lines: 42
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- In <1992Jul23.035709.11573@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Stinky Wizzleteats writes:
- >In article <A9208@MZ.maus.de> Pierre_Hansen@mz.maus.de (Pierre Hansen) writes:
- >>I don't think this kind of diskussion is funny at all. Deserialising fonts is
- >>illegal and DMC will not watch this without taking action.
- >>
- >>Pierre Hansen (@DMC)
- >
- >Hey guys, I've not commented so far, but I *think* the original discussion was
- >related to worries that even I have:
- >
- >I have used FONTVERTER to convert literally hundreds of Public Domain Mac fonts
- >(mostly from the Nautallus CD's, a great source of postscript fonts!). I am
- >concerned that these fonts may not work with Calamus SL. If that were true, it
- >would render Calamus SL virtually useless to me, because other than the
- >original fonts that came with Calamus, the only two packages I have purchased
- >have been Cherry Times and Cherry Garamond. That would severaly limit my
- >creativity...
- >
- >So, does anyone know if these fonts work with Calamus SL?
-
- The folks at DMC don't appear to like competition, so they keep adding
- various checks to newer versions of Calamus and Calamus SL to make these
- programs reject third party fonts. Fortunately, there are workarounds for
- most of their little tricks.
-
- I beleive SL refuses to load fonts that have the string " Postscript"
- in the header, so a simple letter change can fix any font converted
- from postscript which puts this in the header. Use one of the many
- available hex editors to change the files.
-
- Be sure to write to DMC to tell them how much you appreciate this
- little "feature" when you're done.
-
- BTW, a similar change to block the loading of Cherry fonts cost the
- owner of that company over $500.00 to fix and mail out upgrades to all
- his registered users. Just the kind of expense a small company needs to
- survive.
-
-
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