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- Subject: Re: Program exist to create font sheets?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.192229.16330@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:22:29 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec20.215116.28209@julian.uwo.ca>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- Keywords: Fonts PM Program Wanted FTP
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- In article <1992Dec20.215116.28209@julian.uwo.ca> postma@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Warren A. Postma) writes:
- >Simple question:
- >Does anOS/2 (preferable) or WINDOZE program exist to take all the scaleable fonts in my C:\OS2\DLL
- >directory (.AFM, .PFM, etc) and create a font sample sheet at a given size (say 18 or 24 pt) showing what they
- >look like.
- >I tried to create one, after installing about 80 or 90 shareware fonts. EPM (Enhanced Editor) died with a
- >Sys 3157 error in ATMPM.DLL, and Describe (beta/demo DESC32PV.EXE available on many ftp sites)died
- >after I tried to use more than a dozen fonts in a document.
- >All work fine when you only have a few fonts, and Describe coped with up to 30 fonts, until I tried to print
- >at which point it crashed royally.
- >DeScribe's demo gave me a lot of respect for the product, buggy as the DESC32PV.EXE package is, I am seriously
- >tempted to defect from WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS to the new Describe version that just came out. (4.0 is it?)
- >Apparently they gave almost everyone their wish-list. That's something I like to see from a company.
- >Meanwhile, how does one make a font sheet?
-
- Well, here are a couple alternatives:
-
- WLO version of Windows Write (wlo10.zip)
- PMDraw (pmdraw2.zip ?)
-
- Both are available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
- On the commercial side there's Word for OS/2 PM.
-
- Note that EPM still has a bug which prevents it from working when more
- than 99 ATM typefaces are installed. I believe this is the bug you
- uncovered.
-
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