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From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#245/26-Sep-94
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 22:05:19 PDT

TidBITS#245/26-Sep-94
=====================

Plenty of MailBITS about System 7.5 and QuickDraw GX start out the
   issue, and Lloyd Wood passes on a brief article about problems
   with After Dark 3.0 and how to find more details on the
   Internet. Tonya finishes off her series on QuickDraw GX, and
   finally, Matt Neuburg returns with a User Over Your Shoulder
   column lamenting the trend toward featuritis and away from
   elegance in software upgrades.

This issue of TidBITS sponsored in part by:
* APS Technologies -- 800/443-4199 -- <[e-mail]>
   Makers of hard drives, tape drives, and neat SCSI accessories.
   For APS price lists, email: <[e-mail]>

Copyright 1990-1994 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Automated info: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/26-Sep-94
    After Dark 3.0 Problems
    Out of Control? Night Thoughts of the User Over Your Shoulder
    Preliminary Practical Primer to QuickDraw GX, Part III
    Reviews/26-Sep-94

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MailBITS/26-Sep-94
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**Adobe Type Manager 3.8** -- Although Adobe Type Manager 3.7
  comes free with any QuickDraw GX product (including both System
  7.5 and Peirce Print Tools), you can upgrade any version of ATM to
  version 3.8 for $29.95. Why upgrade? According to an Adobe sales
  representative, ATM 3.8 runs in native mode on Power Macintoshes,
  35 percent faster on AV Macs, and generally has better
  compatibility with newer programs. ATM 3.8 also comes with thirty
  typefaces, including Tekton, a multiple master font (Tekton also
  comes with QuickDraw GX). Apple's Tech Info Library states that,
  "Primarily, only Power Macintosh customers should be interested in
  [upgrading from 3.7 to] the 3.8 version as it now has native
  code." Adobe Systems -- 415/961-4400 -- 800/833-6687 [TJE]


**QuickDraw GX correction** -- I regrettably and erroneously wrote
  in TidBITS-244_ that you cannot generate a PostScript file by
  printing to disk through the Print dialog box. Using the
  LaserWriter GX driver, you can print to a PostScript file, much as
  you could using previous LaserWriter drivers. Sorry for the
  confusion. [TJE]


**Speed Disk Fix** -- In TidBITS-243_, Mark reported that serious
  problems with the Speed Disk 3.0 portion of Norton Utilities 3.0
  had caused Symantec to suspend Norton Utilities shipments. An
  updater that updates Speed Disk 3.0 to Speed Disk 3.1 is now
  available. Registered users and upgrade subscribers should receive
  the fix shortly; in the meantime, anyone can download it from
  various online sources. [TJE]

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/disk/speed-disk-30-to-31-updt.hqx


**MODE32 users** should be absolutely certain to install the new
  MODE32 version 7.5 from Connectix (see TidBITS-243_) _before_
  upgrading to System 7.5. We have it on good authority that
  installing System 7.5 on a non-32-bit-clean Macintosh with an
  earlier copy of MODE32 (or perhaps Apple's 32-bit Enabler) may
  cause severe damage to the system software, necessitating a
  complete reinstallation. Also, MODE32 7.5 is compatible with
  System 7.1, should you not have upgraded to 7.5 yet. [MHA]

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/cfg/mode32-75.hqx


**Quadra 630s** cannot be upgraded using the current Power
  Macintosh Upgrade Card, despite incorrect statements on Apple's
  12-Sep-94 price lists. Apple plans a PowerPC-based upgrade for the
  630 series, the Performa, LC 575 and 474, and the Quadra 605. The
  upgrades should be available late this year. [MHA]


**PowerBooks with 4 MB RAM** as shipped from the factory will
  still have System 7.1 loaded on the hard drive, since Apple
  recommends not installing 7.5 on PowerBooks with only 4 MB of RAM.
  These machines will also include System 7.5 as a "net install"
  option which the user may elect to install. Or, U.S. customers may
  request a set of System 7.5 floppies for a $10 shipping and
  handling charge, and sales tax, by filling out a coupon available
  from Apple resellers or on AppleLink. [MHA]


After Dark 3.0 Problems
-----------------------
  by Lloyd Wood, Screensaver FAQ author <[e-mail]>

  After Dark 3.0, released this August, was the long-awaited,
  feature-loaded king of Mac screensavers. However, like any version
  ending with a period and zero (did anyone say "Norton Speed Disk
  3.0?"), it's having teething pains. In this case, since After Dark
  patches system software at a low level, the troubles show up as
  conflicts with other packages.

  In an attempt to make users' lives easier, Berkeley Systems, Inc.
  (BSI) recently released a list of known and suspected conflicts,
  with causes and workarounds. They've also promised an updater to
  registered users.

  To register, send email to <[e-mail]>, including your
  After Dark serial number, and your full name, address, and daytime
  phone number. Questions can be directed to BSI's technical support
  team at <[e-mail]>.

  The conflict list details thirty conflicts that affect the 3.0
  engine; new products from BSI, such as The Simpsons, use this
  engine and are also affected. The list is available via the Web
  and FTP respectively, at the URLs below.

ftp://ftp.att.com/pub/afterdark/index.html
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/info/sft/after-dark-30-bugs.txt

  These conflicts are in addition to the ones listed at the end of
  the After Dark Online Manual included on your installer disks.
  (That Online Manual is worth a read; it makes a great deal of my
  Screensaver FAQ redundant.)

  The fact that system-level software has conflicts is nothing to
  get excited about. After Dark 2.0 went through eleven revisions in
  four years due to conflicts with new system software, and a mole
  inside BSI tells me that, although their sales have doubled with
  the release of 3.0, tech support calls have not quite doubled, so,
  relatively speaking, things must be better. (Well, they would say
  that, wouldn't they?)

  In the meantime, if you want to be entertained by a screensaver,
  but don't trust After Dark to do it, check out the only free
  After-Dark-compatible program, Tom Dowdy's DarkSide of the Mac.

ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/mac/util/screensaver/darkside/darkside4.2.sit.hqx

  And, if you're interested in entering the After Dark module
  programming contest that we talked about in TidBITS-241_, download
  the After Dark 3.0 programming kit, which BSI has just released
  online. This version adds example code for CodeWarrior and for all
  versions of Think C, and is stored at:

ftp://ftp.att.com/pub/afterdark/info/ADM3SDK.sit.hqx


Out of Control? Night Thoughts of the User Over Your Shoulder
-------------------------------------------------------------
  by Matt Neuburg <[e-mail]>

  Journalism Rule #1 is not to write a story about how you didn't
  get the story. Yet here's a review about how I couldn't write the
  review. Of course I'll tell you my opinion (don't I always?); I
  think In Control 2.0, which I raved about thirteen months ago back
  in TidBITS-191_, is better than the new version 3.0.

  Can a new version of a great program, which loses none of its
  predecessor's functionality, nevertheless be less great? I feel it
  can be less great if it imposes new features that impede its
  original excellence. If a program does everything it did before,
  and I don't have to use the new features I don't like, is it fair
  to call it worse? Am I conservative? Or sentimental?

  So, this is not a review of In Control 3.0. I already reviewed In
  Control. If you didn't read my review, download and read it; if it
  makes your mouth water, then buy In Control - it does everything
  it used to do, at a great price. The point of this article is to
  raise a _philosophical_ problem: how does, and how should,
  software evolve? I don't know the answer; I merely focus on In
  Control in order to illustrate the question.

  In Control 2.0 combines an outliner and a database: the left
  "column" is an outline (topics and sub-topics), but other
  "columns" can contain keywords or other information in parallel to
  any outline topic, and you can then sort or match on information
  in any column, to see a restricted subset or reordering of the
  outline topics. It's as though you had a lot of note cards that
  you can retrieve in interesting combinations, and which are
  themselves hierarchically arranged. Add superb import/export and
  printing, and a helpful interface, plus the ability to link any
  outline item to a file on disk, and you have an inspired (and
  inspiring) combination of simplicity, flexibility, elegance, and
  power.

  In Control 3.0 (IC) adds vastly extended calendar and date-book
  facilities. The addition is clearly important to Attain, which
  used to bill IC as a "To-Do List Manager," but now calls it a
  "Planner and Organizer" for "Personal Information Management," and
  emphasizes the calendar capabilities in the manuals and example
  documents. Attain seems to think of IC as neither outliner nor
  database, but as a "time manager," a computer version of the
  looseleaf planners you read ads for in airline magazines.

  Okay, I admit it: I'm a culture snob. IC 2.0 was a powerful tool
  for organising and navigating _ideas_ and _information_, which is
  what I do, so naturally I think it worthwhile. "Time management"
  is something paper-pushing, white-collar, anal-retentive, MBA
  drones do, right? I know, I know: totally unfair. But you don't
  deny, do you, that a Mac program can have an ethos? I can't help
  it: I don't like IC's new ethos.

  Besides, the new features are not mere additions: they're
  intrusive. On my home computer, 2.0 takes just five seconds to
  start up, and fifteen seconds to open a largish existing document;
  3.0 takes twenty seconds to start up, and twenty-five seconds to
  open an _empty_ existing document. On my work computer (a Classic
  II), response to typing is so slow in 3.0 that I lose five of
  every fifteen or so characters, rendering the program useless. In
  2.0, the bar of buttons across the top of the window can be
  completely dismissed, to see more actual text in the window; in
  3.0 it can only partially be dismissed. In 2.0, new documents have
  only the basic outline column; in 3.0, new documents have three
  additional columns, and two of these ("start" and "end") cannot be
  deleted.

  What's more, the new calendar features, though souped-up, do not
  seem well thought through: I immediately banged against
  limitations. The three calendrical views - month(s), week(s), and
  day-book - interact pretty well with each other and the outline,
  but there's no way to move directly from an outline item to the
  day-book for that day. The calendar day boxes are illegible on a
  small screen, because if there's a time attached to an item, the
  text wraps only to the right of the time, not all the way back to
  the left edge of the box.

  The calendar can be used to trigger "reminder" alerts, but the
  attention-getting version of these (a big splashy window) is
  available only if IC is running with the calendar file open. If it
  isn't, all you get is a beep and a blinking Apple menu icon -
  unless you pre-set IC to launch at alert time, which works only if
  you have enough RAM free at that moment, and which (as mentioned
  above) takes twenty-five seconds (during which you can't continue
  whatever you were doing).

  The month and week views can have "banners" (text labels crossing
  several calendar days, to represent clumps of time like "vacation"
  or ongoing projects like "write chapter one"); but the day-book,
  though it lists banners that run across that day, doesn't tell you
  what day of the banner it is or how many days it has left to run.
  You can combine outline and calendar into one view; if you double-
  click a day in the calendar, the outline is supposed to focus on
  everything for that day, but it totally ignores banners running
  through that day.

  When I informed Attain of my views, I ended up in an email
  exchange with one of the program's authors, Alan Albert, who was
  friendly and receptive. He argued in reply to this point that
  other leading calendar products have worse banners; and this may
  be. But although he doesn't intend this point to justify IC's
  shortcomings, I don't see its relevance. The measure of a
  feature's worth isn't the implementation of the same feature in a
  rival product: it's the ability of that feature to accommodate
  real-life usage.

  And that's the problem, isn't it? When I first received In Control
  2.0, the program told me half an hour out of the box that it was
  going to improve my life. When I first received 3.0, it told me
  half an hour out of the box that it wasn't. I didn't have to
  _look_ for any shortcomings - they were _obvious_.

  Alan Albert also pointed out that "from the Day view, you can
  display the Start and End columns to see what day the banner
  starts and ends, or include a Calendar in the Day view, to see at
  a glance both a single day or a longer period of time." The truth
  of this statement depends on the meaning of "you can." Perhaps
  _he_ can; I don't have the screen real estate. As I wrote him in
  reply, 2.0 felt to me like it was written by thinking people
  concerned with helping the user to help herself; 3.0 feels like it
  was written by people who had fast computers, large amounts of
  RAM, and enormous screens, and contempt for anyone who didn't.

  But that's unfair too. The truth is the opposite: Attain does
  listen. In fact, that's partly why 3.0 is as it is. Alan Albert
  commented: "We don't see ourselves in the position of being able
  (or wanting) to dictate to our customers what features they
  'should' have. Instead, we try to listen and respond. This
  accounts for the majority of the new features we've added to In
  Control. (We took this same approach when developing FileMaker,
  and it appears to be one that works.)"

  But what does "works" mean? Probably, it means "sells." That's
  what software developers are in the business of doing, after all.
  But, oh my friends and oh my foes, how I wish it weren't! Of
  course I want software companies to _listen_ to suggestions
  (especially mine!); but, steeped as I am in the ideals of Plato's
  Socrates, I want them to _decide_ what to do based not upon the
  wishes of the majority, but on considerations of what's _best_. I
  don't want my Mac to be full of lowest common denominators: I want
  it to be full of greatness. I want software developers to be wise,
  detached, superior, trustworthy, to aim at Quality (in a
  Plato/Pirsig sense). And I have a bad feeling that eventually the
  reality is going to let me down, every time.

    Attain Corporation -- 617/776-2711 -- 617/776-1626 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Preliminary Practical Primer to QuickDraw GX, Part III
------------------------------------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  This article is the third and last in the TidBITS QuickDraw GX
  mini-series. This part introduces QuickDraw GX fonts, pointing out
  amazing features and potential problems.

  If you've owned a Mac forever, you probably remember the old-style
  font world of bitmapped fonts, downloadable PostScript fonts, and
  (toward the end of the 80s) DeskWriter fonts. The first big font
  shake-up came in the early 90s when Apple released TrueType, and
  Adobe not only shared the specifications for how to create Type 1
  fonts but also released Adobe Type Manager (ATM). Font management
  became more complex, but fonts became more flexible and fun,
  especially for people using QuickDraw printers. QuickDraw GX has
  ushered in a second big font shake-up, and everything font-related
  has been thrown topsy-turvy. The parts are up in the air now; they
  should shake down soon and then we'll see what works and what
  doesn't.


**GX Font Summary** -- QuickDraw GX uses a variety of font types:

* True GX fonts, which have an impressive list of new
  capabilities. True GX fonts can be downloadable PostScript fonts
  or TrueType fonts.
* Regular TrueType fonts, which do not need to be converted.
* Type 1 downloadable PostScript fonts, which must be converted
  before they can be used with a GX printer driver. I haven't found
  any information about Type 3 fonts.
* Bitmaps are not necessary, but I haven't figured out if they are
  still desirable under some circumstances.

  True GX fonts, regular TrueType fonts, and converted Type 1
  downloadable PostScript fonts look identical from the Finder- the
  icons look the same, and the Get Info window provides no clues. If
  you try the transition to GX, make a note of what's what, just in
  case you need to know (see the devil's advocate section later in
  this article).


**True GX fonts** --  I made up the term "true GX fonts" to refer
  to fonts specially designed to offer QuickDraw GX features. True
  GX fonts have built-in smarts that enormously extend their
  features and flexibility. Users no longer need attempt to follow
  typesetting conventions using inadequate fonts and software
  features; instead the fonts follow the conventions on their own.
  GX fonts can contain details about kerning, tracking, width,
  weight, and more. For example, when you type "TidBITS" using a GX
  font, the "i" might automatically tuck under the "T", according to
  specifications built into the font. As another bonus, if you
  rotate, stretch, or twist text written using GX fonts you can edit
  the text in its stylized state.

  Before GX, fonts for languages such as English, German, and
  Spanish had room for 256 characters (the Mac uses about thirty of
  those characters for line breaks and the like, not for text), and
  few applications supported the more populated "double-byte" fonts
  required by some alphabets, most notably those used in Asian
  languages. In contrast, a GX font can contain 65,000 glyphs. Think
  of a glyph as a shape that could be an entire character or only
  part of a character. For example, the character "e" might be
  represented by four different glyphs, and each glyph might make
  the "e" look different, depending on where the "e" falls in a
  paragraph or sentence. Or, if the "e" needs to be accented, the
  accented "e" might be created by combining more than one glyph,
  perhaps one for the "e" and one for the accent. You could also
  have uppercase and small caps versions, as well as special
  ornamental versions.

  65,000 glyphs accommodates most (if not all) written languages and
  allows font designers to add fractions, ligatures, special
  flourishes and embellishments, and more. Check out pages 530-532
  of the new fifth edition of Peachpit's "Macintosh Bible" to see
  great examples of special GX features in Skia and Hoefler Text,
  true GX fonts which come with QuickDraw GX.


**The Catch** -- True GX fonts sound too good to be true, and
  currently - for most people - they are. Although (in theory) you
  can use a true GX font from any program, you cannot take advantage
  of the special GX  features unless you use a program that supports
  them. From what I've heard, Pixar has the only third-party,
  shipping program that supports true GX fonts; the program, Pixar
  Typestry 2, is a font animation and rendering program, and it runs
  in native or 68K mode. Several companies have announced plans to
  support true GX fonts, including: Ares Software in Font Chameleon,
  Manhattan Graphics in the upcoming Ready,Set,Go! GX, version 6.5;
  and SoftPress Systems, in a new product called UniQorn. (Find out
  more about UniQorn in the 12-Sep-94 issue of MacWEEK, on page 20.)
  I expect that as time goes on, additional companies will jump on
  the GX-font bandwagon.

  Apple's SimpleText also supports true GX fonts. Salman Abdulali
  <[e-mail]> had a chance to play around with
  SimpleText 1.1.1, and he wrote, "If you print one of the new GX
  fonts from SimpleText 1.1.1, you get automatic ligatures and curly
  quotes. Printing a document with Apple Chancery leads to more
  surprises. The first letter of a paragraph has the swashes.
  Several other characters take on special shapes depending on their
  positions . None of these features show up onscreen, but you can
  see them in either a hard copy or in a portable digital document."
  SimpleText 1.1 also appears to support true GX fonts; I don't know
  if 1.0 does.

  I gather that GX font development tools make it reasonably easy to
  throw together a font containing only a few GX capabilities.
  Evidently, the Font Consortium (a group comprised of interested
  developers, including several of the big font foundries) is
  putting together a set of guidelines for what features a GX font
  should have and attempting to create a multiple-platform font
  standard that builds on GX technology (no telling what exactly
  "multiple platform font standard" means, but it sounds like an
  excellent topic for lengthy committee meetings).

 To find out more about true GX fonts, go to the Apple Web site,
  enter the Tech Info Library, and search for "glyph".

http://www.info.apple.com/


**Regular TrueType Fonts** -- You can still use TrueType fonts
  under QuickDraw GX. TrueType fonts don't get converted and work
  whether you have GX on or off.


**Downloadable PostScript Fonts** -- Downloadable PostScript fonts
  that are not true GX fonts must be converted into GX fonts before
  you can use them with QuickDraw GX. Converting a downloadable
  PostScript font does not endow it with true-GX-font capabilities,
  but it does make it so documents using the font print with
  QuickDraw GX on (definitely an advantage). If you print with an
  unconverted downloadable Type 1 PostScript font, you get a
  mysterious error and no printout.

  When you install QuickDraw GX, the installer takes a copy of all
  Type 1 downloadable PostScript fonts in the Fonts and Extensions
  folders and converts them into QuickDraw GX fonts. It places the
  original downloadable PostScript fonts in a folder called Archived
  Type 1 Fonts.


**The Type 1 Enabler** -- QuickDraw GX comes with an application
  (called Type 1 Enabler) that can convert downloadable PostScript
  fonts into GX fonts. The Enabler was written by Adobe, and it can
  convert all fonts in a folder or all fonts on a disk. It's great
  that you can convert the fonts, but the utility fails if you look
  at it cross-eyed. I had problems with the Enabler failing whenever
  it encountered a suitcase containing bitmaps for more than one
  font.

  The Enabler caused Bob Arthur <[e-mail]> to throw in the
  towel on GX. He wrote, "If the Enabler encounters an error, such
  as a font suitcase containing a non-Type 1 font, it _stops dead_.
  You then have to quit the Enabler, remove the offending font
  suitcase from the folder, and start all over again. Until the next
  error. The Enabler even gives an error if it finds an already-
  enabled suitcase!"

  Evidently the Type 1 Enabler that comes with QuickDraw GX is slow -
  it took five to ten seconds per font for me on a Power Mac 7100,
  and you can evidently get a faster version through various online
  services or the Adobe BBS at 408/562-6839. Unfortunately the file
  is not available on <ftp.adobe.com>.


**Adobe Type Manager** -- If you use Adobe Type Manager (ATM), you
  must upgrade to version 3.7 or later. Version 3.7 comes with
  QuickDraw GX, but if you have a Power Mac, you may want the native
  version (see the MailBIT above). Using Adobe Type Manager requires
  that you pay attention when you turn off QuickDraw GX. A source at
  Adobe pointed out that Adobe Type Manager 3.7 and 3.8 fail to
  print GX-style PostScript fonts (true GX or converted to GX) if
  you print with GX off but with ATM on. In my own testing, GX-style
  fonts did print with GX off and ATM off.


**Devil's advocate questions** -- A few people wrote in to ask
  what happens if you print with a GX font, but without GX. It
  seemed a worthy question, so I rebooted with QuickDraw GX off to
  see what would happen when printing both true GX fonts and
  converted PostScript fonts.

  At first I thought I had a problem because I couldn't print in the
  background, but then I discovered the cause of the problem -
  although I cannot swear to it, I believe that the GX installer
  deleted Print Monitor; hence, background printing failed. With
  Print Monitor installed, I printed fine using PSPrinter 8.1 and
  LaserWriter 7.2 (with background printing on or off) from two
  non-GX-savvy applications - Nisus 3.4 and Word 5.1. I also had no
  problems with Word 6, which supports GX printing (but not the
  fonts).

  My success with WriteNow 3.0 was limited. WriteNow crashed when I
  attempted to format text in the PostScript true GX Tekton (a font
  that comes with QuickDraw GX) and the PostScript converted Katfish
  (a font from Letraset's newest collection of Fontek display
  faces). On the other hand, WriteNow worked with Hoefler Text and
  Hoefler Text Ornament (both true TrueType GX fonts that come with
  QuickDraw GX) or with a converted PostScript font called Cursive.
  (Cursive comes from Educational Fontware, and teachers use it to
  prepare materials that help students learn handwriting.) My
  problem sounds similar to one Salman Abdulali passed on. "WriteNow
  4.02 crashes with a Type 1 error if you use a PostScript Type 1
  font converted to GX format. This includes the Tekton font bundled
  with QuickDraw GX. The other TrueType GX fonts (Apple Chancery,
  Skia, Hoefler Text) work without problems."

  I did not test GX fonts on a Mac running an older version of the
  System (such as System 7.0 or 6.0.7). If I had a deadline to meet
  related to a converted or true GX font working with an older
  System version, I'd test it well before the deadline.

  Another issue that some people will want to check is what happens
  to the placement of printed characters if you create a document
  using a converted PostScript GX font (such as Futura) and then
  print the document using a non-converted version of the font.
  Although you should get the same results, I've heard rumors that
  characters shapes or spacing may change slightly.

  Similarly, everyone who uses type professionally wants to know if
  they can take documents that use GX fonts to service bureaus and
  have the printing process go smoothly. I don't have an answer, but
  it's a good question, and perhaps I'll follow-up with better
  information.


**Wrap-Up** -- This ends my preliminary look at QuickDraw GX,
  though I suspect future TidBITS issues will have updates. If the
  Macintosh had shipped for the first time in 1994, and all Macs
  shipped with big hard disks, 20 MB of RAM onboard, QuickDraw GX,
  and all drivers, fonts, and programs were GX-savvy, everyone would
  rave about the innovative new Macintosh and its amazing font
  technology. Unfortunately, the transition to QuickDraw GX is going
  to be awkward (or impossible) for many people, but the nature of
  the computer industry is to constantly push the envelope on what
  can be done. It's refreshing to see Apple pushing hard and
  shipping something new.

    Adobe -- 415/961-4400
    Ares Software Corporation -- 415/578-9090
    Educational Fontware, Inc. -- 800/806-2155 -- 206/842-2155
      <[e-mail]>
    Manhattan Graphics -- 914/725-2048
    Letraset -- 800/343-8973
    Pixar -- 510/236-4000 -- 510/236-0388 (fax)
    SoftPress Ltd. (U.K.) -- 44-993-882588 -- 44-993-883970 (fax)

  Information from:
    Getting Started with QuickDraw GX (an installation guide in the
      Peirce Print Tools software package)
    "Inside QuickDraw GX Fonts," by Erfert Fenton, Macworld (Oct-94,
      pg. 122). (An excellent article!)
    Apple propaganda
    Pixar propaganda


Reviews/26-Sep-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 19-Sep-94, Vol. 8, #37
    Microsoft Excel 5.0 -- pg. 1
    Color Laser Printers -- pg. 29
      Xerox 4900 Color Laser Printer
      QMS magicolor Laser Printer


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