Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    I've only recently bought 3.2. I just checked (dialed in from home) and
    the Prowrite 3.2 extras disk contains a number of fonts including
    helvetica.
    
    There are a couple of ProFont packages available as options for
    Prowrite, but I don't know what fonts are included in them.
    
    regards
    	Mike

    Re .0/.1:
    
.0  I recently got prowrite 3.1 and will be upgrading to 3.2.2.
.0  I noticed that 3.1 didn't have the medium and high resolution
.0  icons for selecting either medium or high. My old 2.04 had
.0  this feature.... How do I get high resolution on 3.1?
    
    ProWrite 3.1 defaults to the same resolution as your workbench.  The
    manual tells you what argument to specify to control the resolution of
    the screen ProWrite opens.  Take a peek at the .info files that came
    with your earlier version to see how they specified screen resolution.
    
.0  Also is it true you will need the 2.04 roms to achieve jaggy
.0  free printing?
    
    Only partially.  If you have AmigaDOS 2.04 (and therefore the ROM),
    ProWrite can use the outline fonts for both screen and printer output. 
    It can also use bit-mapped fonts, which it scales down to improve print
    quality under either AmigaDOS release.
    
.0  Is there a helvetica font out there somewhere for Prowrite? 
.0  Why aren't there more fonts like in the IBM world?
    
    The four standard Adobe PostScript fonts (Courier, Helvetica, Symbol, &
    Times) are provided with ProScript (the PostScript add-on for earlier
    versions of ProWrite) and with ProWrite 3.2.  In fact, ProWrite 3.2's
    installation directs you to use THEIR versions of the fonts, because
    they are more accurate than earlier versions than you might already
    have installed.
    
.1  There are a couple of ProFont packages available as options for
.1  Prowrite, but I don't know what fonts are included in them.
    
    I have the ProFonts for business, which includes about a dozen fonts. 
    I don't recall the proper name of the other (NON-business) package, but
    it contains a similar number of eye-catching fonts that could also be
    useful.  There are, in addition, MANY public domain fonts (start with
    "Fonts" on Fred Fish disk #81) and a number of commercial packages to
    meet most needs.
    
    Once you get to AmigaDOS 2.04, you'll find that there are even MORE
    font choices.  The "Fountain", AmigaDOS' outline font import tool, is
    quite happy reading Compugraphic outline fonts and producing bit-maps
    for them so you can use them at will.  It may also be able to read
    Adobe Type Manager font disks (through CrossDOS) directly, though I
    haven't yet tried that.

    
    	I'm obviously lost here.... I have no idea what page 149 of the
    	manual is talking about. Use the WB info command to add one of
    	the screen option names listed below to the tool types parameter of 
    	prowrites icon?
    
    	My understanding of the the info command is it displays data 
    	regarding disk space etc...
    
    	How do I get back to a high resolution screen as I had before in
    	version 2.04? @.04 had 2 icons. One for Mediuw resolution and the
    	other for high. Someone please walk me through this please.
    
    	MAG

    
    Mag,
    
    What they mean is the fillowing .....
    
    1. select the prowrite icon from the workbench
    2. now from a workbench MENU, select the item called INFO
          
       this brigns up a requester with lots of information about the
       program the icon represendts.
    
    3. in that requester there will be a box called tools, or tooltypes,
       or something to that effect (it will be obvious).  This is where
       you enter the tool types. Think of tool types as a way to specify 
       program options via it's icon.
    
       I'm not familiar with ProWrite but the manual probably give you 
       a number of tool types that are legal.  They typically look 
       something like these strings:
         SCREEN=LACE            INTERLACE=ON
         SCREEN=HIRES           INTERLACE=OFF
         SCREEN=LORES
      
       pick the options you want, and enter them one at a time in the 
       tool types box using the exact syntax and case given in the
       manual and save the everything by clicking on the save gadget
       in this requester.
    
       I don't have a manual here but I'm certain the use of this requester
       and all the gadgets it has, are described in any AmigaDos manual.
    
    Hope this helps.
    Frank
    
       the manual

    If you are using Workbench 2.whatever, click the Icon for Prowrite,
    then pull down the "Icons" menu on WB until you get to "Information". 
    You may now click in TOOL TYPES and set up what is described in the
    manual.  I haven't read page 149 either, but I assume that it is
    describing setting up of startup parameters.
    
    High resolution screens are set via Preferences/ScreenMode.
    
    Hope this helps...
    
    Tony

    Boy, Frank.  Looks like you and I were racing to get this one out.  :-)
    
    Tony