Subject: More Info. on TOPFONTS

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 11:43:02 PDT

Hi, netters,

 Several months ago, somebody posted a message on this network
 giving out the information about so-called TOPFONT CHINESE
 SYSTEM (a Vancouver-based company product).  The following
 are something this system (basic package) can't do

 1) For a PostScript output,

     You can bold and italicize you Chinese characters in English
 word processors and see the effect on screen, but you cannot get
 it from your Postscript printer. So it's not really WYSIWYG.
     You have to add internal commands to do these things just as
 XLBR and NJSTAR.
     But the internal command \B for bolding is not useable for the
 basic system.

 2) You need the ATM v1.15 to use the product. It does not support
 ATM v2.0 yet.

     It is cumbersome to run BRIDGE outside Windows each time for a new
 file you want to work with. You have to keep at least two files to retain
 all the formatting you have just done.

 The chinese characters printed out are not as beautiful as XLBR or
 NJSTAR.

 [email-masked]