Re: pointless pointers?

[danb@pro-sol.cts.com (Dan Brown)]

In <1992Dec17.175728.4676@memstvx1.memst.edu> ustai@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:

>Hiya,
>	I just got pointless (finally!) the other day and yesterday, finally
>broke down and printed something from Appleworks GS, and was devastated by the
>quality (etc etc) and now have this great urge to find lots of TrueType fonts. 
>Any pointers and tips on converting Mac/IBM ones to my GS?  (Please don't tell
>me it's in the faq, please, pretty please?)

        First, Pointless won't improve on the resolution of your printer.  It
will, however, let you always have the perfect size available.  As to
converting fonts from the Mac, that's easy.  Put in the Mac disk with the
fonts, copy them to the GS, and "Add" them to Pointless.  That's it. 
Converting fonts from Windows is harder, and requires a Mac with
Metamorphosis or Fontographer to convert them to Mac format.

>	Anyway, in one of my tests, using courier, part of one letter
>"infringed" on another letter (separated by a space), using a 12 point size. 
>Is that a bug with pointless (courier was supplied by them) or was that another
>of AppleWorks GS bugs?  

        I haven't seen this problem, but I don't print in Courier very much. 
The stuff I've done in Courier works fine, though, so I doubt it's Pointless.

>Also, is there any way to make the default font _not_ Geneva?

        Not that I know of...  If there is a way, I'd like to know, too!

>	Thanx for any help.  Ciao.

--> Dan


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