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I've heard that Publishing Partner v1.02 is out now but I haven't received
it yet.  For those who haven't looked recently, the CIS Atari16 Applications
DL now has a serif font "Columbia" (includes printer font), and the HP
LaserJet drivers (one for LaserJet II+, one for LaserJet + 1.5M RAM).  Has
anybody used the HP drivers?  I'd like to know how they work since they
have no documentation and I have no LaserJet yet.  It looks like they use
the PP printer fonts rather than the HP fonts...if so, is the print quality
adequate?
I got the new PS driver, PSPLUS.PRT, apparently designed for the LaserWriter
Plus.  In snooping through it, I cleared up some misconceptions about the
original PS.PRT and I'm now confident of the "right" way to set up PP screen
fonts for use with PS.  The key is to use the right font code when setting
up the screen font.  Following are the font codes for each font in PSPLUS.
The "*" marks fonts available in PS.PRT.  I've abbreviated the font names.
1000 Helvetica*       1001 Helv-Bld*   1002 Helv-Obl*    1003 Helv-BldObl*
1010 Courier*         1011 Cour-Bld*   1012 Cour-Obl*    1013 Cour-BldObl*
2000 AvanteGarde-Book 2001 AG-Demi     2002 AG-BookObl   2003 AG-DemiObl
2010 Bookman-Light    2011 Book-Demi   2012 Book-LiteIta 2013 Book-DemiIta
3000 ZapfChancery-MedItal
3010 Helvetica-Narrow 3011 HlvN-Bld    3012 HlvN-Obl     3013 HlvN-BldObl
4000 Palatino-Roman   4001 Pala-Bld    4002 Pala-Ita     4003 Pala-BldIta
4010 NewCenturySchlbk 4011 NCS-Bld     4012 NCS-Ita      4013 NCS-BldIta
5000 Times-Roman*     5001 Times-Bld*  5002 Times-Ita*   5003 Times-BldIta*
9000 ZapfDingbats
9020 Symbol*
Bld=BOLD, Ita=ITALIC, Obl=OBLIQUE
The June ST Applications says that SoftLogik will make several of the above
available (including printer font?).  Meantime, if you can't live without
them on your LaserWriter:
1) Run a short PS program to find the width of each character in the font
   (width in points for 12 pt font size)
2) Create a matching font with CED.PRG (its width is the value in (1) times
   50).  This shouldn't take more than an hour or two.
3) Set the font code to the appropriate value shown above.
You only need to define one screen font for each family (use the first one
on each line above).
Since Symbol isn't in the list of new releases in ST Applications, I'll
post it somewhere or the other and I'll probably have to generate a printer
font for it if the HP LaserJet requires it.
Don Rice
FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET