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Dear PC font user:

We at Altsys are proud to announce the availability of Fontographer 3.2, the
first Macintosh PostScript font program that can produce fonts for the ATM
(Adobe Type Manager) Windows environment on MS-DOS computers.

Accompanying this README.TXT file is the GraphicLight font. Here is what
Richard Mitchell (the font's developer) says about GraphicLight:

I first saw Graphic Light back in the middle Seventies when the Baltimore Type
Foundry was closing down and selling off its remaining stock of metal types. I
liked it, but I don't clearly know why. Maybe it was its unusual "ft"
ligature, maybe the small x-height. I bought lots of it, in several sizes, and
even set a few small pamphlets in it.

When Macintosh came along, Graphic Light was one of countless typographical
treasures that I was no longer able to use. So, since no big company is likely
to reproduce it, and since Fontographer 3.x makes the work so easy, I have
done it myself. It is a Christmas ('89) gift to any and all from The
Underground Grammarian.

If you use it for blocks of text, always try it first set solid, that is, with
a line spacing equal to its size, 12 on 12, for instance. The face, because of
its small x-height, is very small on the body, and the lines will fly apart
with too much leading. Since you╒re setting type on a computer, you can even
use a negative leading. I have made a few attractive pages using 13 point type
leaded 12.5 points. Works well.

And a Merry Christmas to all from

Richard Mitchell
Associate Circulation Editor

If you use this font in a publication, I'd like to hear from you. Write me at:

The Underground Grammarian
Post Office Box 203
Glassboro, NJ 08028

Or you can send CISMail to 71611,332.

GraphicLight is fully compatible with ATM for Windows, allowing it to be seen
on screen at any size, and print to any printer that has a Windows driver.

INSTALLING THE GRAPHICLIGHT FONT:

1. Copy the GRAPHLIG.PFB file to your \PSFONTS directory.

2. Copy the GRAPHLIG.PFM file to your \PSFONTS\PFM directory. (You can ignore
the .AFM file since it is not useful with Windows. It may be useful to people
running GEM applications, however.)

3. Open the ATM Control Panel and "Add..." GraphicLight to your list of ATM
fonts. You will have to open the \PSFONTS\PFM directory to allow ATM to see
your GraphicLight font.

4. If you have a PostScript printer, the following will be necessary. If your
printer does not have PostScript, ignore this step. Open your WIN.INI file
with the Windows Notepad program.  (Do you have a backup of it? If not, make
one now.) At the end of the "softfonts" list, you will see something like:

softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\GRAPHLIG.PFM

You'll need to change this to:

softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\GRAPHLIG.PFM,c:\psfonts\GRAPHLIG.PFB

Doing this allows the Windows PostScript driver to find your .PFB file and
download it to your PostScript printer. DO NOT use a semicolon between the two
entries or you will cause some rather unpleasant problems.

You should now exit Windows and restart. GraphicLight will now show up in
your Windows programs' font menus and you'll be able to choose it and use it
like any other font. ATM will allow you to see the font in all sizes and print
it smoothly at all sizes.

INFORMATION ABOUT FONTOGRAPHER 3.2:

Fontographer 3.2 runs only on Macintosh computers. It runs on the $999.00
Macintosh Classic which has a 1.44Mb FDHD Superdrive capable of formatting and
writing a PC 3-1/2" diskette. Fontographer 3.2 retails for $495.00 and is
available from all reputable dealers of Macintosh software. To make fonts for
Windows with ATM from Fontographer 3.2 you can do the following:

1. Draw the font or autotrace it from scanned images pasted into Fontographer
3.2's Edit window. If you have already made Fontographer fonts, you can use
the "Open font..." dialog from the File menu to open the font and allow its
conversion to PC format. If you have PC PostScript fonts you wish to modify,
you can download them to any Adobe PostScript printer that can simultaneously
communicate with both Macintoshes and PC's, then use Altsys' Metamorphosis
(retail $149.00) to convert the fonts to Fontographer format on the Macintosh.

2. Select all the characters in the font and use the Path menu's "Correct path
direction" item to make sure that the path directions in the font are correct.

3. While all the characters are still selected, use the Edit menu's "Char
info..." item to make sure that all the characters in the font are filled with
"Normal" fill and a "Tint" of 100% (DO NOT check the "Stroke" checkbox, since
Adobe rules do not allow stroked characters in Type 1 fonts).

4. Use the Edit menu's "Font attributes..." dialog to turn on the "Automatic
PostScript and bitmap hints," "Generate Type 1 fonts," and "Adobe standard
character encoding" checkboxes. Do not turn on the "Use Flex feature if
possible" checkbox unless you are absolutely certain that your font can
benefit from Flex.

5. Use the File menu's "Generate fonts..." dialog and choose the
"PostScript-PC" item from the "Outline format:" popup menu. To save time, you
can choose the "None" item from the "Bitmap format:" popup menu, since you
will not need to generate any kind of bitmap file. OK this dialog and the
result will be the .AFM, .PFB, and .PFM files described above. They can be
installed using the above instructions.

For further information about Fontographer 3.2, call or write:

Altsys Corporation
269 W. Renner Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080
Phone: [phone]

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