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PPage_Toolkit, V1.0
This release of the Professional Page toolkit includes the following
two programs: PPage_Any_Font and Fix_PPage_Font.
These programs are discussed in more detail below.
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PPage_Any_Font, V1.0
Gold Disk's Professional Page program only allows you to use fonts
that have a corresponding "font metrics" or just "metric" file. This
means that you can only use PostScript fonts. Unfortunately, they
don't look very good when you print to a dot-matrix printer.
This program builds a metric file for any Amiga font. This will fool
Professional Page into letting you use it. IMPORTANT: You cannot
print to a PostScript device any document you create using any of
these non-PostScript fonts! Also, do not use this program on
existing PostScript fonts - you will destroy your original metric
files! Once you have the metric file for a font, Professional Page
will show you the font name in its requester. For best results, only
use "natural" sizes - sizes that are actually in the directory for
the font you are using. This will prevent Professional Page from
scaling the font, which doesn't look too good.
Just type "PPage_Any_Font" for command-line syntax.
Release History:
V1.0, 03-Jul-1988
First release.
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Fix_PPage_Font, V2.1
Some of the fonts distributed with Gold Disk's Professional Page
program, V1.0, cannot be used by other programs. This is especially
irritating, especially for the Symbol font, which is a collection of
generally useful symbols including the Greek alphabet and quite a few
mathematical symbols. A few of the fonts included with Professional
Page V1.1 also suffer from this problem.
The problem is that the proportional spacing information in the fonts
is incorrect due to a bug in the MakeFont program distributed with
Professional Page V1.0. Any font you make with the MakeFont program
suffers from this problem. Since Professional Page uses its own
metric files for doing proportional spacing, Gold Disk evidently did
not notice this problem; Professional Page works just fine.
This program, Fix_PPage_Font, will fix the proportional spacing
information in any Professional Page font file. The font can then be
used by any program including, of course, Professional Page. It does
this by recomputing the proportional spacing information based on
values in the metric files.
Also included is a command file that applies Fix_PPage_Font to all
fonts that come with Professional Page.
Just type "Fix_PPage_Font" for command-line syntax.
Release History:
V2.1, 02-Jul-1988
The previous release (V2.0) produced proportional widths for the
screen fonts that were about 2% too large. This problem has been
corrected. There is a new feature to change the horizontal density
(in pixels per inch) of the screen for which the font is intended
to be used; this usually should be left at the default 75 ppi.
V2.0, 05-Feb-1988
Professional Page metric files are now consulted for information
used in computing new proportional spacing information. This is a
more reliable method than the previous version used. There is also
a new feature to give all characters that would otherwise be zero-
width the same width as a space. This allows you to use a number
of characters such as non-break-space that are defined in
Professional Page's metric files as having width 0. There is an
option to override this feature, but I would recommend that you do
not override it; zero-width characters are strange to work with
(and pretty useless) in word processors.
V1.01, ??-Feb-1988
First release.
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Written and put into the public domain by:
Ed Scherer PLink Id: Syn*Ed
11808 West 149th Street
Olathe, KS 66062-9411
I'd gladly accept a PLink-A-Gift if you find these tools to be
worthwhile.