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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Postscript painting program????
Keywords: slimeball
Message-ID: <11778@gryphon.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 89 03:41:21 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2553@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> hgm@ncsuvx.UUCP (Hal G. Meeks) writes:
>
>Express Paint offers integrated postscript support. While it is not pure
>postscript (doing bitmap->PS conversions), it is quite good. Results are
>better than IFF2PS, but cost should be taken into account. It also supports
>color postscript, being the only Amiga program that I know of to do so. 
>
>Anthony Studios (LaserUP!) is advertising a drawing program called LaserUp!
>Draw in the back of the latest AmigaWhirled. Is it _real_ postscript? Call
>them and find out.

Yeah, well I hope his PS drawing program works a LOT better than his fonts.
He sells a package for $35 that has 3 postscript fonts. Deal of the
century, right ? Wrong. They don't work.

You print them at 18 pt and there is a gap in the ``O''.  So you 
print them at 24 pt and now the gap in the ``O'' is gone, but ther
is a gap in the upper loop of the ``B''.

Totally unusable.  And of course how many B. Daltons have an Amiga,
Postscript printer and software that lets you use them ? Arrg.

But I guess this is why his fonts are $35 for 3, and the REAL Adobe
fonts are $100 a typeface. And up.


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