Making faces: you can design alphabets and corporate logos with a font editor

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Altsys Corp.'s easy-to-use Fontographer, which runs on Apple's Macintosh, is a $395 software package for creating and editing fonts, logos, symbols, and other graphic elements. Using a mouse with the Mac interface, the user designs fonts by positioning dots to define the outline of each character; the dots are connected by the program. Editing capabilities include sketching; tracing; creating guides and templates; and manipulating the shape, orientation, and position of each character. Output is to a font file, but Postscript and bit-mapped screen versions of the font are also created to provide formats for, respectively, Postscript-driven laser printer and screen output. The manual has a number of gaps in it, and it needs a better index, but a good tutorial is provided.

Prepackaged software, Software, Graphics software, Typesetting, Software Packages, Performance, Altsys Corp., Altsys Fontographer (Font management software)

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Laserwriter, Laserwriter Plus: Apple Computer

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Apple Computer's Laserwriter and Laserwriter Plus, both of which are PostScript printers, are easy to set-up and use. The Laserwriter costs $4,999, and the Laserwriter Plus costs $5,799. Laserwriter is equipped with four Adobe fonts, while Laserwriter Plus offers eleven fonts. Both printers' input trays hold 100 pages; their output trays hold a maximum of 20 sheets. Laserwriter does not perform well attached to a PC, because it lacks a parallel port and must receive data through a serial port. The Laserwriter is slow when printing newsletters with numerous fonts and graphics. The Laserwriter features: memory of 1.5Mbytes; 8 page-per-minute print speeds; resolution of 300 dpi; and Diablo printer emulation.

Computers, peripherals & software, Product information, AAPL, Apple Inc., Comparison, Apple LaserWriter Plus (Computer printer)

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Memory for faces: how to expand your Laserwriter font options

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Desktop publishers who use the Apple Laserwriter can supplement the fonts that are resident in the machine with disk-based fonts. However, the Laserwriter's 1.5Mbytes of memory is used for many purposes so only about 173K is actually left. Therefore, decisions about memory allocation must be made. The Laserwriter, even with its limited memory, can be used to create pages with an unlimited number of typefaces, but speed will be a consideration. Some printers that are now being marketed have more memory; however, what is really needed is a permanent, nonvolatile storage space such as might be provided by a hard disk.

Usage, Tutorial

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