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From: Fabrizio Sebastiani <fabrizio@iei.pi.cnr.it>
Subject: associating fonts to applications
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A725A9097D020363@mac-sebastiani.iei.pi.cnr.it>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 10 Nov 92 21: 59:37 GMT
Organization: Italian National Council of Research
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:55:01 GMT

Apologies in advance if this is a FAQ, but I haven't been able to sort
this problem out.

Does System 7 provide a way to associate a given set of fonts to a given
application, so that these fonts will be loaded into RAM just when this
particular application is opened (and not at system boot), and unloaded
from RAM when the application is closed?  I think that with System 6
there was a way of doing this (although I would not know which).

The reason why I am asking is that I have the (space-consuming) Computer
Modern fonts (screen fonts and printer outline fonts, in Adobe PostScript
Type 1 form), that I definitely need when using the Textures package, and
that I definitely do not need with any other application.  BTW: Textures
requires Adobe Type Manager.

Thanks a lot to anyone who will provide information.

Fabrizio 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zisk@adobe.com (Stephen Zisk)
Subject: Re: associating fonts to applications
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:16:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.165501.19513@di.unipi.it>, Fabrizio Sebastiani
<fabrizio@iei.pi.cnr.it> wrote:

> Does System 7 provide a way to associate a given set of fonts to a given
> application, so that these fonts will be loaded into RAM just when this
> particular application is opened (and not at system boot), and unloaded
> from RAM when the application is closed?

Under either System 6 or System 7, you can move the bitmapped version of
the font into an application by using Font/DA Mover. You need a late
version (4.1??) to do this in System 7. The font then appears as a resource
in the appplication when you start it, and disappears when you quit. To
print
you will still need to put the outline font in the System or Extensions or
Fonts
folder, depending on whether you are using Sytem 6, 7.0, or 7.1.

Regards!

Stephen Zisk (zisk@adobe.com)   Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions
and
Adobe Systems Incorporated      do not represent the views of Adobe Systems
Eastern Regional Office         Incorporated.
24 New England Exec. Park
Burlington, MA 01803            They pay me but they don't muzzle me!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: reed@teal.csn.org (Jim Reed)
Subject: asset tracking sw?
Summary: asset tracking sw?
Keywords: tracking sw?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:52:00 GMT

I am looking for some fairly sophiticated asset tracking sw.  This is not for
stocks and such, but for inventory of computers etc.

If anyone knows of any makers of this products please e-mail me. 

Thanks - jim

reed@nexagen.com 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sro@media.mit.edu (Shawn O'Donnell)
Subject: Mac vs. IBM & quality of writing--Ref?
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:04:21 GMT

I heard of a study a couple of years ago--at the University of Delaware,
I think--according to which students who used (DOS) IBM PCs wrote better
papers than students who used a Macintosh.  (The students using the Mac
allegedly spent all their time fiddling with fonts and formatting instead
of worrying about what they were saying.  Since it was so hard to do
formatting on old DOS PCs, the students using the IBMs spent all their
time thinking about the writing assignment.  Or so the story goes.)

Does anyone know of a reference for this study?  

And I know I read about it recently... I can't remember where, though.
Maybe in a Boston Computer Society publication?  BCS Update?  In don't
know.

Any pointers?

Thanks.

--Shawn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Simon_Kok@mindlink.bc.ca (Simon Kok)
Subject: Re: PowerPoint latest version?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:00:49 GMT

I believe that the current shipping version of PowerPoint from Microsoft is
version 2.01E or 2.01F.

But just incase you're mixing up the slide-presentation software (PowerPoint)
with the hip and funky printer driver package (PowerPrint from GDT), the
current shipping version of PowerPrint from GDT Softworks is v2.0.  =)

Oh... just in case... PowerPoint is compatible with PowerPrint but does not
output to PostScript Printers.  Are you planning to use it on a PowerBook?

=)

Cheers!

Simon Kok
Technical Support Engineer
GDT Softworks, Inc.
From: rick@howtek.UUCP (Rick Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Calendar that pages?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 13:07:28 EST
Organization: Howtek, Inc.
Reply-To: rick@howtek.UUCP (Rick Roy)
Distribution: usa
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1992Oct27.161241.13845@pixel.kodak.com> (comp.sys.mac.apps), sloey@kodak.com writes:
] Can anyone out there save me some trouble. When it comes to meetings I have a
] mind like a seive. I've missed three in the last 2 weeks with the same person.
] Is there a calendar for the Mac that dials out to a pager? I use a digital
] pager so there's not much in the way of an audio message that could be used,
] just a few numbers touched toned through it to jog my memory.
] If this doesn't exist, I'll have to write it. Sooner or later I'm going to miss
] something important (or did I already?)  :-(
] 
] 
] NOTE: The opinions and suggestions expressed here are purely from my own
] warped mind. Neither I or my company are responsible for my behaviour.
] 
] Jim Sloey; Eastman Kodak Company 8/69/RL; Rochester, N.Y. 14650-1924;
] sloey@kodak.com | applelink:sloey | eksmtp.sloey%kodak@mcimail.com
] Country=US,ADMD=MCI,PRMD=KODAK,DDA=ID=eksmtp.sloey | eksmtp(sloey)

	I don't think any *single* package will do exactly what you'd
like. It sounds like you need Easy Alarms. EA 2.0 can send AppleEvents
to other applications. Have it tell HyperCard (you *do* have HyperCard
don't you?) to do the dialling. You could have QuicKeys do the same
thing but QK costs a lot more than EA and despite other peoples' fascination
with it, I don't recommend it to my friends. I use EA and I am very
happy with it.

Just my two sense ;^). I have no affiliation with Essential Software except
as a satisfied user of Easy Alarms.

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Disclaimer: My employer's views are orthogonal to these.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker)
Subject: How does Autodoubler perform on a Powerbook?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:57:24 GMT

Anyone have Autodoubler on a Powerbook?  How does it perform?  The
sales blurb for Autodoubler says "absolutely will not slow your mac
down."  Oh yeah.... free CPU cycles huh?

What are your experiences?

- Hacker
-- 
Dark Hacker @ Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation
Phone: (703) 356-6514    Internet: hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us

"I am the very instantiation of object oriented evil!"
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Free Software!
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:35:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <mwojcik-111192152121@college23.sas.upenn.edu>,
mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) wrote:
> 
> I just got a call from a friend of mine who bought a new Performa. As many
> mac users already know, Apple has decided not to provide free System
> Software anymore. Even more stupid, Apple ships machines to end users WITH
> NO SYSTEM DISKS!
> 
> Anyway, the General Control Panel of my friends System 7.1 just died. With
> no system disks to work from, he's in trouble. What I need is some kind
> soul who recently bought a Mac with system 7.1 to E Mail me a copy of the
> Sys 7.1 General Control Panel.

A note for anyone who owns a Performa or who has a friend who ows one. 
Apple provides a backup application with the Performa, and the
documentation with the machines say to backup the hard disk first thing,
and to make regular backups.

If Michael's friend had backed up the hard disk, he would have been able to
recover the control panel from the backup set.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Subject: Re: Word processor that does math formulas
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: SMIS, Massey University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 03:45:36 GMT

mjerosc@nmrsun.erenj.com (Michael Jerosch-Herold) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Nov5.135702.5116@infonode.ingr.com>,
> lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com (Les Bartel) wrote:
> > 
> > I am in need of a cheap word processor that will allow me to write
> > fairly complex mathematical formulas (not solve them).  What are my
> > options.  I find that creating the formula in Mac Draw and pasting
> > them into the word processor document to be too cumbersome.  What
> > are my options?  I am running on a 1 Meg MacPlus with a hard disk.

> Microsoft word 5.0 has an equation editor which is fairly well integrated
> into the word processing package.  You will find yourself pointing and 
> clicking a lot to generate complex formulas.  Once a formula is in the 
> document, you just click on it and you are back in the equation editor if
> you wish to make any changes.  
> 
> There are some other equation editor's like Expressionist and MathType.

The original writer would have trouble running Word 5.0 and the Equation
Editor concurrently on a 1 Mb Mac.  Even using WriteNow and MathType on a 1
Meg Mac was touch and go, and WN requires much less RAM than Word.  He'll
have to remain on System 6.0.*, but I imagine this is not news to him...

He could try Word 4.0's (or 5.0's for that matter) formula glossaries, but
they are rather painful to learn and use.  Not as hard as TeX, though.  The
output isn't as good as MathType's or Expressionist's either.

--
Phil Etheridge               P.Etheridge@massey.ac.nz
Macintosh Consultant         Phone: +64+6-356-9099 x8689
SMIS, Massey University      Fax:   +64+6-350-5611
Palmerston North, NZ         40*23'S 175*37'E,    GMT+13
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:16776 aus.mac:1219
From: shelly@cognet.ucla.edu (Shelly Spearing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,aus.mac
Subject: Re: Help: how to print Word documents, 4 to a page?
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:40:06 GMT
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Program

>In article <1992Oct28.031226.8318@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> timm@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Tim Menzies) writes:
>>I'm preparing a lot of lecture notes using Word 5 under System 7.
>>I'm killing too many trees. Student's photocopying bills are going
>>through the roof. Does anyone have a gizmo for printing Word 
>>documents (in landscape), four to a page? Or even two to a page?

I'm really baffled that no one has suggested using Word's built-in 
columns, particularly since it's so easy with Word5.0. I've found
maximum efficiency by setting:

	page setup = landscape
		     options = larger print area
	format document=
		all margins at .33 inches
	format section
	  columns = 2 (looks better than three, though depending
	     on what you are printing, three may be more appropriate)
	  spacing = .25
	font = Times 10, though can go lower if necessary

Also, rather than using Word's default "12 point space between paragraphs",
	format paragraph 
		space before = 3 point.  Just enough to separate major ideas
		  yet avoids needing to outdent first line (i.e., indent the
		  remainder which wastes lots of space).


Shelly Spearing (a wannabe Word consultant posing as a grad student)
From: kuznia@sipi.usc.edu (Charles Kuznia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Faking a coprocessor?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 14:17:46 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: sipi.usc.edu
Keywords: PowerBook, Matlab, Coprocessor

Can a powerbook 160 fake a software program into believing it has a
math coprocessor?

I would like to run Matlab, but Matlab v3.5 requires a math
coprocessor.  I don't need heavy number crunching or speed, I just
want to set-up data graphs for inclusion in figures.

Thanks,

Charlie

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Charlie Kuznia                          * ckuznia@aludra.usc.edu
University of Southern California       * 
Signal and Image Processing Institute   * a man a plan a canal panama
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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Clarisworks or MS Works?
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:19:34 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <3312@voodoo.UUCP>, jdt@voodoo.ca.boeing.com (Jim Tomlinson)
wrote:
> 
> 
>     So, I'm finally giving up on keeping up with the Word and Excel
> updates; I just can't afford it for the minimal work I do at home.
> Both MS and Claris want to upgrade me cheaply from my old 1.0 copy of
> MS Works, and I'm in a quandry.  My gut tells me to go with Claris
> (great reviews; don't have to send Bill any more money), but I'm always
> having to get stuff into MS format (Word/Excel) to give to others, and
> I worry about Claris' import/export capabilities relative to that of a
> MS application.  I haven't seen any reviews of the new MS Works, so I'm
> kind of in the dark about what it's way-cool new features are.
>     Anyone got an opinion?  If this has been discussed recently (it's
> hard enough keeping up with the X newsgroups), could you email me a
> copy of what you saved?  I'll be reading the newsgroup in eager
> anticipation of net.wisdom on the subject.  Much thanks in advance.

I won't promise to be objective, because I work for Claris, and can't be
completely objective.  It goes with the territory.

The major difference between ClarisWorks and MS Works is that in MS Works,
each type of function has its own module and document, and you can't mix
them.  If you want to put a table from a spreadsheet into a word processor,
you have to open a spreadsheet document, do your spreadsheet stuff, copy
it, and paste it into the word processor (and save the SS document if you
think you may have to revise the data).  In ClarisWorks, you simply drag
out a spreadsheet rectangle in the word processor document (the menus will
change to the SS menus until you click out of the SS; then the menus will
change back), and do your work right there.  You can open the SS into a
full window if you need, but that is just for working; the SS still remains
in the WP document.  This is not limited to just SS and WP; any module can
be used in any other module (the only exception is that you can't
incorporate the telecommunications module into any other, or any other in
it).

Microsoft Works had a 90% market share before ClarisWorks was introduced. 
Now ClarisWorks has a 75% market share.  Some of this is due to marketting
activities, but most of it is due to the solidity of the product.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Scott Brim <swb1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Organisers/Calenders
Nntp-Posting-User: @cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:16:17 GMT

There is one feature in "Do It All!" which I haven't seen elsewhere, but
which is incredibly useful: in a todo list you can give a task a
starting priority, an ending priority, and a due date, and it will
bubble the task up through your todo list display, so it gets closer and
closer to the top as the due date approaches.  "Do It All!" is
unfortunately weak in a lot of other areas so I can't recommend it --
but has anyone seen this "bubbling" feature anywhere else?
						Thanks much ... Scott

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From: mannella@ipifidpt.difi.unipi.it (Riccardo Mannella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: netrek
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:35:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: di.1992Nov12.173522.475
Organization: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Pisa, Italy
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X-Xxdate: Thu, 12 Nov 92 18: 43:41 GMT
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Any knowledge of a Mac implementation of NetRek? 
E-mail answers preferred.
Thanks
Ricc


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From: dbw@network.ucsd.edu (David B. Wollner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: SMTP between macs and Unix workstations
Date: 5 Nov 1992 10:23:45 -0800
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: network.ucsd.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

We are looking for software to gateway Macintosh mail to Unix
mail.  What packages are currently available and what are people's
opinions of them?  Are there any limitations on the transport
mechanisms that the software requires?

We have some special requirements as the mail may never leave
the Unix workstation.  Thanks for your replies!

	- David Wollner (dbw@xsi.com)
	  Xcelerated Systems, Inc.
	  (619)576-3080
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning)
Subject: Re: Kodak statement about Photo CD System
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:56:44 GMT

In article <721340266snx@w3vh.UUCP> rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) writes:
>houchin@sunshine.Kodak.COM writes in article <1992Oct28.212846.16282@kodak.kodak.com>:
>> First off, loose the attitude it you want us to keep trying to answer everyones
>> questions.
>
>First off, get out a dictionary and learn the difference between loose
>and lose, or have someone proofread your posts.
> ..........................................................................
>> Disclaimer: These are my own opinions and interpretation of the facts,
>> and may not be the views of Eastman Kodak Co. At times, I may be
>> wrong,
>
>No kidding.
>
>> and Kodak may not be held libel for errors on my part in my posts.
>                            ^^^^^
>We'll just assume this was a Freudian slip.
>
>--
>Rolfe Tessem               Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. 
>rolfe@w3vh.UUCP            96 Morton Street, NYC, NY 10014
>rolfe@ldp.com              "Believe it or not, we're a Kodak customer"

What is everyone so uptight about?  I came into this thread kind of
late, but it seems like everyone's flaming everyone else less for what
they're saying than for how they're saying it.  Okay, so he made some
spelling mistakes.  Haven't you?  These are the techies at Kodak who
are answering these posts.  They're not setting the prices or
enforcing patents, which appears to be what most people are complaining
about, so they don't need your abuse.  The people who deserve the
abuse are the marketing dweebs in lah-lah land.  But they're not
reading the net, so lighten up.

John

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: BeagleWorks vs. ClarisWorks question
Keywords: works
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:40:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I see that MacConnection is selling BeagleWorks for $69! I thought I
remembered seeing a review comparing the various works programs, which
put BeagleWorks at the top -- is my memory right?

The other question I had was: does BeagleWorks' wordprocessing module
include translators for things like WordPerfect/PC? I think that
ClarisWorks contains many such translators...

Thanks for any replies,
Ralph
rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
-- 
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Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: troyer@mitre.org (Tom Royer)
Subject: Re: PowerPoint latest version?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:40:57 GMT

I just received the announcement for PowerPoint 3.0.

The brochure says it requires System 7.  Is that right?
Will it work at all with 6.0.8?

Thanks in advance.

--
Tom Royer
"If you're not free to fail, you're not free."
                                            -- Gene Burns
From: Rick.Zeman@p943.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Zeman)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: SpaceSaver or AutoDoubler?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 04:24:19 -0500

On 11/5/92, Elliotte Rusty Harold was heard to say regarding "SpaceSaver or
AutoDoubler?:" 

  ER> From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) Newsgroups:
  ER> comp.sys.mac.apps Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
  ER> 
  > 
  > AutoDoubler has always allowed you to specify a list of files (or
  > folders) that you don't want to have compressed.  Isn't that, in
  > essence, what you want?
  ER> 	No.  While that may be logically equivalent, it is not interface
  ER> equivalent.  First, I want the default to be no compression.  Secondly
  ER> I want a simple menu choice to select a file for compression or no
  ER> compression.  I don't want to have to edit a list of file names in a
  ER> CDEV. And finally I want my choice for a given file to stay with the
  ER> file whether I edit it, move it, or rename it.
  ER> 
  
       Finder labels are ideal for that.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: phil@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Phil Goodman)
Subject: Re: PCX to some MAC format
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 22:03:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov06.120746.27393@fourd.com> Gretchen_C._Macdowall@fourd.com writes:
><< I'm looking for a some translator from PCX graphics format
>to some of Mac formats.>>
>   
>You can import PCX files into Photoshop and then save them in any Mac format.
>But you are probably looking for a cheaper solution.
>********************************************************************
>System: fourd.com                                Phone: 617-494-0565
>Cute quote:  Being a computer means never having to say you're sorry
>********************************************************************

If you can convert your PCX file to a BMP file on the DOS machine, use
Imagery, a shareware program, to convert it to a beautiful PICT format.

I do this all the time for documentation. I am writing a Windows "how-to"
book using Quark on the Mac.  There's just no way I would use a DOS or
Windows program to write a book.


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