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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.