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- From: vsanchez@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Victor Sanchez)
- Subject: Re: Provector questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.190258.5849@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Keywords: drawing printing provector stylus font
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- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
- References: <1992Nov14.012042.18721@ichips.intel.com> <1992Nov17.070932.5595@ichips.intel.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:02:58 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov14.012042.18721@ichips.intel.com> waggoner@pdx159 (Mark Waggoner) writes:
- >>I have a couple of questions about Provector that I hope someone can
- >>answer. Also, if there are any general likes or dislikes you have regarding
- >>the product, I would really like to hear about them.
- >>
- >> 1. For text, what type of fonts does it use? Postscript?
- >> Compugraphic? Both? Other? Are any fonts included with the package?
-
- As Mr. Cunniff (sp?) told you, if you buy PSimport you can convert any
- PostScript type 1 font into ProVector format. This was important for me
- becuase I needed the full character set (most of the labels in my figures
- are in spanish). So I converted the Times-Roman, Helvetica, Courier and
- Symbol family and they work just fine. The fonts lost some of the kerning
- info in the process but they still look OK.
-
- Now that I have used the program for the figures in my dissertation I have a
- better feel for it. In general it produces the best postscript output of
- any drawing program I have used in any computer, period. The company provides
- good support and is compliant with most amiga interface requirement. Their
- file format is public domain and it is part of the IFF set of standards,
- which mean that it is begining to be supported by other programs (some PD
- plotting programs do now). It has and very complete and powerful AREXX
- interface and suports multiple levels of undo.
-
- My main complaints are the "Arc" tool, which forces you to decide the size of
- the arc before hand, i.e., you cannot just set the radius and drag the curve
- until it is the angle you want. The lack of lines with arrows (although
- the provided me with a couple of ARREX scripts for doing that, which work
- very well). Letter drawing seems very slow in a package that prides itself
- in being very fast, I do not know if font cacheing is being done.
-
- There are other minor details, like, when using the symbol font, I would like
- to see the actual font in the requester and not the roman version of it (i.e.
- they need to provide a map from amigados type fonts to actual ProVector font).
- I have a slow Amiga (an A1000 running 2.04) and large requesters like the
- fill and border ones take a long time to draw, a simple set of requesters
- would provide faster access to them. What I have done is to have all the
- possible preferences I use, not many, defined in AREXX macros so that can
- do the all the changes with a single menu invocation, etc. Nothing that a A4000
- would not fix :-).
-
- Victor
-
- PS, I would like PSimport to import the text also, at least if I have
- the font available. I have to import scientific drawings and plots, which
- are full of text.
- >
- >--
- >--- // -------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Mark Waggoner waggoner@ichips.intel.com (503) 696-4182
- > \X/ Faster chips for a better tomorrow
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