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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:	Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:	Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:	FUNYET::ANDERSON

Created:	Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:	Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1433
Total number of notes:	10312

784.0. "MFPS doesn't print text ?!" by HLFS00::FLORIS (Floris van den Dool, (838)2618 -- IS Holland) Tue Feb 27 1990 06:04

Trying to make some slides at home and print them on a postscript 
printer at the office I tried to convert the EASYDRAW GEM-files to 
postscript using MFPS.

At first I had a slide with some graphics and text (bold, outlined, 
italic). Only the graphics would print (almost correct).

Then I removed the graphics from the slide, and tried again. Looking 
into the postscript file I couldn't find any text. Again there were 
bold, outline and italic lines. Since I've only the SWISS font, I was 
only using one font. (The postscript file mentioned however TIMES and 
HELVETICA.)

Did I miss something somewhere ??

I would be very glad to get it working, it would make live a lot 
easyier... (using EASYdraw :-)

thanks for any help,

Floris

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
784.1	Gem Fonts to Postscript fonts only.	UKCSSE::KEANE		`Tue Feb 27 1990 10:55`	14
	Hi Floris, I have used MFPS several times, but I have never tried BOLD OUTLINED ITALIC. as a combination.!!! I think that if there isnt an equivalent POSTSCRIPT font then MFPS CANNOT turn an EASYDRAW Bitmapped font into a non existing Postscript one. (It doesnt convert easydraw fonts to graphics, only graphics to graphics, if you see what I am trying to say!) Cheers Pat K.
784.2	Arrows, what arrows I didn't even see the Indians	SEDOAS::WATT	It's Life Jim but not as we know it	`Tue Feb 27 1990 12:12`	3
	It also doesn't seem to like arrowheads. Peter.
784.3	no,no,no not all at the same time !	HLFS00::FLORIS	Floris van den Dool, (838)2618 -- IS Holland	`Tue Feb 27 1990 16:47`	23
	re .1 > > I have used MFPS several times, but I have never tried BOLD OUTLINED > ITALIC. as a combination.!!! > I see what you mean Pat, but I'm afraid you missunderstood me. I wasn't trying to print whith outlined,bold and italics enabled at on time; but I mixed them in one document. I seem to remember that somewhere in this conference someone made a remark about MFPS not being able to handle different fonts in one document. (I'am gone try it with one font, let you know tommorow) thanks for responding anyway !! (I'll keep on trying: I've got to do a presentation in four weeks at a DECUS meeting and I've got those great slides....at my ST....and worse: I'm going on hollidays for two weeks next saturday :^o) _Floris
784.4	error: $FLAGS ????	HLFS00::FLORIS	Spain is only 3 days away...	`Wed Feb 28 1990 11:48`	39
	another strange thing: I tried to convert a demo that came with EASYDRAW. It worked, but only after I'd removed a couple off strange (VMS a-like) statements with '$Flags: ' I atached it below. Furthermore the printing of plain EASYDRAW text didn't work either (no specials this time straight text). Only the initializing part is there, after '%%EndProlog' there are a few more lines but no text is included. I'm desparate. Floris ________________________________ . . . 1 setgray fill gsave 0 setgray newpath 407 273 397 273 389 265 389 265 4 pln 389 265 389 265 8 arrow stroke grestore $Flags: -O -DGETOPT -DATARIST -DSTDCC -DPSDEBUG -DGUMLAUT -DNOVAX -f -lm $ setdash 0.00 setlinewidth 0 setlinecap [] 0 setdash 0.00 setlinewidth newpath 336 158 432 158 432 86 336 86 336 158 5 pln closepath . . .
784.5		VISUAL::WEAVER	Dave, Image Systems Group	`Thu Mar 01 1990 00:49`	15
	I know Migraph has a postscript driver, it just doesn't handle all the formats they wanted it to. As a result they haven't released it yet. They had some higher priority projects so they shelved it when they lost the person who was doing the work. The reason I say all this is that if you were to call them, and ask them nicely after explaining your situation, you might get them to release a version to you. I have thought of trying to get the current version, but haven't really had a need. All they can say is no, it is probably worth a phone call. -Dave p.s. It supposedly works for 300 dpi, but not 1200 dpi Linotypes.