Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.answers,news.answers Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eff!news.kei.com!world!ora.com!norm From: norm@ora.com (Norman Walsh) Subject: comp.fonts FAQ: Amiga Info Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts. It addresses both general font questions and questions that are specific to a particular platform. Sender: norm@ora.com (Norman Walsh) Supersedes: Reply-To: norm@ora.com (Norman Walsh) Organization: O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. References: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:28:15 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 16:27:32 GMT Lines: 42 Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu comp.fonts:6520 comp.answers:3566 news.answers:14506 Archive-name: fonts-faq/part10 Version: 2.0.3 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 ================================ 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.