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- From: walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norman Walsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.answers,news.answers
- Subject: comp.fonts FAQ: Amiga Info
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: 16 Aug 1993 18:43:57 GMT
- Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst)
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- Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts.
- It addresses both general font questions and questions that
- are specific to a particular platform.
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.fonts:9731 comp.answers:1630 news.answers:11455
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- Archive-name: fonts-faq/part10
- Version: 2.0.1
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- Subject: 8. Amiga Information
-
- This section needs a lot of work. At the time of this release, I'm not
- in a position to write it so I'm leaving it basically blank. Even if
- you don't have time to write it, if you know what _should_ be in this
- section, please forward it to norm.
-
- Adobe Type 1 fonts for the Amiga
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-
- Darrell Leland contributes the following information:
-
- There are now three high end DTP packages for the Amiga that can
- directly or indirectly use Adobe Type 1 Fonts or AGFA Compugraphic
- fonts. The best of the lot in both my and Amiga World's opinions is
- SoftLogik's Pagestream, currently in version 2.2 but about to go to
- version 3.0. Pagestream can take Adobe fonts in MS-DOS format directly
- with no format conversion needed. All you have to do is get them on an
- Amiga format disk, which is very easy using the new version of
- Commodore's Workbench operating system. Pagestream has import modules
- for MacWrite, Adobe Illustrator, and every other format in the universe
- (seems like). It is generally a very stable and well behaved program
- with a lot of features. I haven't had a chance to see 3.0 yet, but they
- are claiming it's going to be a real killer. We shall see. It does color
- seps, twists and rotates fonts, etc. Pagestream's job has been made
- easier with Commodore's (about time) release of their own Postscript
- printer drivers and Preferences postscript printer control tools.
-
- SoftLogik also sells a program called Typesmith, which is (at last!) a
- structured font maker/editor for the Amiga. Typesmith will work with
- both formats mentioned above plus SoftLogik's own font format, which I
- get the impression they are discontinuing in favor of Postscript. They
- also sell ArtExpression, a very nice structured drawing package that
- does everything I can think of. I understand SoftLogik has also been
- getting several Mac and PC font makers to make Amiga fonts for them too.
- They even have a program system that allows programs to publish to other
- programs, sort of like in Mac System 7.0. They are lisencing it out to
- any Amiga developer who pays a paltry sum to lisence it.
-
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