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Ihighlights

-( 36 Facing Up to Fonts

Our all-inclusive guide to fonts— how to install them, manage them, and use them; which ones are hot and which ones are not; where to find them, and more, by ted alspach

Just Your Type

Not satisfied with any of the fonts that are already out there? Feel like striking out on your own? Here’s a step-by-step guide to creating your own font, by nikki echler with

KEN BOUSQUET

On the Road Again

Join us as we tool up the California coast, armed with four of the latest sub-$1 ,000 digital cameras and a big pot of coffee. Our mission? To find out just how well these cameras fare when taking vacation photos, by ray larson

Quest for System 8

Bored with the wait for System 8? Head out on your own quest with our board game. All you need to play Is two people, some M&Ms, and a lot of time, by the macaddict team

This Oid Mac

Believe it or not, there’s a lot of life in that old Mac Plus yet. Check out the first in our series on putting older Macs to good use. by t. kelley boylan

Fix Bad Scans

If you’re scanning photos, then you’ve probably run across at least one of these five common problems. Here’s what to do next time you hit a snag.

The stuff legends are made of— grab a travel pal, a big coffee mug, and a digital camera... ROAD TRIP!

Add Sound to a Web Page

So, your Web page looks great, it’s easy to navigate, and it’s got tons of super-useful information. Now we’ll show you how to add sounds.

Rescue a Mac from your town dump! Give your “mature” Mac a modern makeover.

Gee, this one and every other letter in the alphabet, too.

iviuur! rmy mt; ividUHuuiui board game— you won't find it anywhere else — and join the frenzy!

Wilt Titanic float your boat or sink your ship? . . Check out the MacAddict review!

every month

Editor’s Note

An interview with Apple’s Marco Landi and topical illuminations.

M Letters

Ramblings, stories, and questions from our readers.

28 Get Info

More on upcoming System software, a 500MHz processor,

, , clones of clones, and a dog of a contest.

3|2 Cravings

Six products we desire, crave, lust after, and really, really want.

11^66 Reviews

Photoshop 4, FreeHand 7, PowerBook 1400c, Avid Cinema, Abuse, and other long-awaited tools.

itm Ask Us

Solving audio CD problems, installing an internal hard drive, and how to use large monitors efficiently.

PowerPlay

Find out what it takes to make a successful port of a PC game.

Shut Down

Random and bizarre clippings from the world of Macs.

the disc

It’s a font spectacular this month. We’ve packed in sample fonts and tools for creating and managing fonts. And, of course, we’ve also included some of the best shareware around, a handful of games, and batch of working demos of current programs. And, don’t forget to check out our super- secret contest.

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EDITORIAL.

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Panasonic Introduces TruPhoto™, the digital photo printer.

The new Panasonic TmPhoto printer creates real photographs from your PC or Macintosh® computer. Input an image into your computer from photo CDs, floppy discs, digital cameras, the Internet or scanners. Use your graphics program to manipulate the image, then TruPhoto will print out a bright, brilliant 3”x 5" glossy photograph. TruPhoto uses no toner or ink; it produces real photos on Thermo- Autochrome paper. MGI Photo Suite™ for TruPhoto is included, so you can use your computer to retouch, crop and fix your photographs. And even create special effects, baseball cards, birthday cards, calendars and more. There are lots of ways to get digital images into your computer, but to get real photographs out, you need TruPhoto from Panasonic.

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The creative process has always been a mystery to some. To others, it^s a way of life. For them, we offer the S900. A computer designed specifically to meet the needs of the creative professional. The S900's advanced architecture combines high performance and expandability with the familiarity of the MacOS . With worry-free service (standard 3 day on-site warranty) and at a price that canT be beat, the S900 is setting new standards for an old pursuit: Art.

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Seif-policing isn't pretty, but unfortunately it's sometimes necessary,

Some people “steal” things because they don’t understand the rules of the game. Other people do it maliciously — they know that what they are doing is wrong and they do it anyway. If the theft happens in your neighborhood, you call the police. If it happens at your office, you call security. If the theft involves the copyright to a valuable invention, you call a lawyer. But if the theft happens on the Internet, wiffi a small file of no clear monetary value, whom do you call?

That’s a tough question. Self-policing is not pretty. No one likes to be the commu- nity crank Yet, if someone steals something and doesn’t admit it, apologize, and rec- tify the situation, then maybe it’s time to put self-policing into action.

Is this just a general ramble about the Internet and freedom of speech and copy- right? No, it’s more specific than that. You see, as much as we hate to admit it, two of the top three entries in the sound category of our custom-painted Power Mac contest (Dec/96, p50) were submitted by individu- als who did not create them. Worse, one of the individuals was awarded the top prize.

One of the runners-up, Mike Miller, submitted a sound that is part of Dave Ulrich’s Wacked Sounds shareware collec- tion. We’d love to tell you whether Mike realized that he was violating copyright law or not, but he’s no longer at the phone number or address that he supplied. Fortunately, we had not sent his runners-up prize when we found out the truth about his submission. We could have done many things with the prize, for example, rejudg- ing the contest, but we’re giving it to Dave, a person who shared with the Mac commu- nity, only to have his work stolen.

The far bigger issue is with the winner of the Mac for the sound category. After the December issue appeared, we received let-

If a file of no clear value is stolen, whonn do you call?

ters from several folks stating that the winning sound entry, Funky Mac, was originally created by Eric Hausmann and had been posted on AOL and several BBS communities for at least a couple of years under the name of MacFunkee. (One of those writing in was Jeff Click of Clixsounds — one of his sounds. Heavenly Welcome, had been pub- lished on our CD under the name of John Bassing.) Uh oh.

So, we downloaded Eric’s ver- sion of MacFunkee and compared it with the winning Funky Mac entry. Identical. I asked Eric to send more proof that the file was created by him. Got it. Asked the winner to do the same. Never got it.

We then explained copyright issues to the winner — under copy- right law, items posted online are considered copyrighted even if the owner has never filed for an official copyright. He seemed to understand, but then refused to return the Mac, so that we could award it to Eric. In his reasoning, MacAddict erred in awarding him the Mac, even though contest rules stated that entries had to be previously unpubhshed. While I could go on about MacAddict’s legal rights, I won’t because that is, in many ways, beside the point.

The real issue is the somehow skewed reasoning that if material is on the Internet, it’s fair game to be used and claimed as one’s own. There are no consequences unless you get caught and someone initiates legal action. Otherwise, hey, what are you going to do to me?

That’s where self-policing comes in. We thank those who alerted us to the origins of the files. It seems that in these days we need to look out for each other. As I write this in early December, the sound contest winner has finally promised to return the Mac. We hope to see it back in our offices soon. — Cheryl England

November, we met up with Marco liLandi, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, at a trade show. We didn’t have long to chat, but we did pick Landi’s brain a bit about what to expect from Apple in 1997.

ML: We’re entering 1997 with a totally dif- ferent situation than in 1996. Our finances and Inventory are under control — now we can execute our strategy with confidence.

W/iat is Apple’s financial situation? -

Our operating expenses have dropped almost $50 million since early 1996, Now our expenses are at a level we can afford. We have $1.7 billion in cash and we’ve reduced inventory from $2 billion in early 1996 to $662 million — that’s a record low for us for inventory versus run-rate. And our margins are back up to 22 percent. We’ve reduced manufacturing costs and made efficiency improvements.

What Is your strategy for 1997?^

Segmentation^ focus, solutions, and supe- rior value. We will focus on various market segments such as enterprise, education, and consumer and we will prioritize within those segments. We will also focus on ease-of-use, performance, compatibility, connectivity, and industrial design.

^ ...

What is your OS strategy?

First, we’ve got to clearly identify the solutions where we want to play. Our OS strategy depends on this. Then we will define the modern OS. We’re In a major war to provide an alternative to Windows. NT is wrong for customers. We will pro- pose something with the Intranet that is vastly superior.

We’ll introduce a new brand and image campaign with a strong merchandising program, point-of-purchase displays, bill- boards, more training and more space in retail outlets. We’ll have products for $1500 to $2,000 for retail. — CE

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This Month

Reading the mail is among our favorite things to do. We love your stories, your comments, your jokes. We only wish we had more space to run all of the wonderful responses. Write to us at: MacDudes, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005, or letters@mac addict.com. For CD-ROM replace- ments or subscription queries, please call our customer service department at 415-468-4869.

It Ain’t So

My friend tells me that IBM owns Apple. Is it true? Say it ain’t so. — Julian Benneh,

Fresno, CA

Those Mean Moms

So my 12-year-old son brings home this magazine and says to me, “Hey Mom, look at this cool new magazine.” I spot the juvenile

SU^HIED

Macintosh Guru

Power User

UHndows User

Vou have echieued Macintosh Guru status.

Thanks for pfayingl

Click OK to quit.

A Self-Made Guru

Daniel Tomasch of Millheim, Pa., sent in a whole bunch of stuff for us, from custom icons to a file with some airline jokes (a few were even funny). Why did he send us all of this? Because “not to get mushy or anything, but... I love you guys. (Sniff.)” Sounds like a suck-up to us, but nonetheless we liked his Official Mac Guru license enough to give it this bit of space in this month’s Issue.

GOT A MAC SIGHTING? SEND IT TO US!

graphics on the front and Fm think- ing, “Oh great, another game magazine. Now he’ll be telling me the tips to conquering some inane game that he intends to install on my Ethernet system. Oh, and look here, they’ve even included a CD.”

Now I have two copies, two CDs, a paid sub- scription, and my son doesn’t get them at all anymore. He says, “Mean Mom.” I say, “It’s my job.” — Cyndie L. Klopfenstein

I just got 220,000 in Apeiron, a game I installed from one of your CDs, and I’m pretty dam proud of myself. Not just because of my score, but because I reclaimed my computer as my own... See, Mom’s recently become addicted to Apeiron, and for a while there she was whipping my butt. But youth has prevailed! — Matthew Phillips

I had to beg my mom for a week to let me subscribe. She was afraid it would make me use the computer too much. Tell me, what’s too much on a Mac? — ^S. Seto, San Mateo, CA

Dude!

What’s up everybody!! Well, as you can see, I got back on the Net! In case you don’t remember me, I’ve faxed you guys twice from work, that place known as my own personal hell. Anyway, since I last faxed Oan/97, plO), I have been fired from the den of lawyers due to my unprofessionalism and my blatant attacks on their PCs. Maybe the war paint and battle cries were a bit too much, or maybe they didn’t appreciate the fact that I was scalping my victims. Then again, it might be all the stickers I posted, or the fact that I would run down the hall screaming, “I hate this place! Long live Apple! Long live the Mac!” Anyway, I’ve been sent back to the streets to once again run wild with my fellow bike messengers. To live a life of freedom, to fly like the wind, and to run over as many scum-sucking yuppies as possible!

Fm off to Venice Beach right now, but as always, you guys rule, and also... Please give me a job! Later! — ^Reuben E. Reynoso Um, Reuben, this may come as a surprise, but we all kind of expected something like this might happen...

OK, We Hedged

A friend is interested in buying a Performa 6400/200 and running Finale, a music com- position application. I’d like to find out wbat kinds of specialized software won’t run on 603 systems, and if this application is one of them. — Jay Harris

When we said that some specialized soft- ware might work only on 604 ^sterns, we were hedging our bets. The PowerPC 604 processor includes some instructions that a 603 does not, so there is some tiny chance that some odd application might require a 604 instead of a 603.

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I

Rest assured, however, that mainstream applications such as Finale will run on any flavor of PowerPC chip.

GOSH DARN IT!

The review of Fractal Design Expression (Dec/96, p64) was actually a preview of the product and was written using an early beta version. The preview should have been marked as such and the program should not have been rated. The preview should have also noted that some problems such as slowness could be attributed to the fact that Expression was still in beta. Terribly sorry for the confusion— look for a review of the shipping version in an upcoming issue and on our Web site.

Oh, Please Calm Down

Hi. My name is Eric. Um... Fm a... Mac addict. I didn’t think it was true... gasp... but it is... I am addicted (sob). I really thought I could handle it, until I went to the bookstore after having seen the November issue online... and what should my ears hear but the fateful “death chime” of the clerk saying, “Sorry, we no longer have that issue.”

WHAT!? I have to have it! The guy in the cubicle next to me at work has one, but he won’t share his CD — something about catching a virus. I had the shakes last night. Fm hurting real bad. My wife asked if there was something wrong. I said, “Nothing, it’ll be OK.” But it’s not.

Oh, the thrill of exploring the CD, the panache of the articles and relevance to my needs. I was thinking of buying a 3D app and saw the issue — “Perfect timing as usual!” I said to myself. “I will take my hard-earned cash and retrieve this cool yet viable periodical.” But noooo! I think the clerk had a judg- mental glint in his eye as I staggered out of the store.

Today, I finally found a telephone cord that is long enough to reach out the window so I could send you this before I jump.

Hmmm... Someone is shouting something. They have set up an inflatable cushion... prob- ably to catch the PowerBook! I just cannot go on without my November issue (sob). Please... please... whatever it takes! I have to have my wrapped-in-plastic mag and CD! Please respond, let me know someone out

there cares. — ^Eric Brown

Go Quickly!

In the November issue (pl02), someone wanted to know where to find Oscar The Grouch, an “outlawed file.” The response said it was “pulled from distribution.” This is untrue! The file was only pulled from Info-Mac sites. It can be found at other Mac sites such as <ftp;//ftp.funet.fl/pub/mac/ sysext/grouch.sit>. — ^Todd S. Meyer, SCIOTA, PA

As of October 12, 1996, Oscar The Grouch was still at <http://www.eskimo.com/ ~pristine/softindex.html> .

— ^Bob Longstreath

You'll have to go to these sites quickly, before Oscar disappears from them, too!

Huh?

I’m quite disturbed that when I see a piece of software that says “Requires 386 and Windows 3.1 or better” it won’t run on my Quadra 610. Any ideas? — Ira Lieman, Hoboken, NJ

Hey, guess what? Of the many uses for the Mighty Macintosh, my personal favorite is “Geek-Off.” Just thou^t you’d like to know. — John Moore IV, Virginia Beach, VA

I just wanted you to know that I think I like rats. — ^Paul

True Inspiration

Look, I drew a picture in Microsoft nerd. I mean Word. — Joey Cooper, 12, Middletown, IN

Yeah, we've always been impressed with Word's drawing features, too...

The art that Word inspired. Watch out— Word’s Auto Correct tool will straighten all those curves.

MacAddict has inspired me to change the “Welcome to Macintosh” greeting during startup to “Macs Rule, PCs Drool” via ResEdit. — ^Wiuy Rivet

PEMeMlt

^ AN UNABASHED SWIPE AT WINDOWS 95,

; SUNG TO THE MELODY OF

I ALANIS MORISSETTE’S “IRONIC”

!Vs a Microsoft product

that claims to be great

But like its predecessor

it’s just second rate

Uke OS/2

it has a similar fate

It’s a graphic in-ter-face

about 12 years too late

\ Yes, Windows is demonic

. . . don’t you think?

; Chorus:

j They want you to beiieve that it works like a Mac Although it was designed by someone high on crack If Windows 95 could simply fade into black The world would be sooooooo much better. . .

He bought an IBM clone

’cause he liked the low price

It came with Win 95

to add a tittle bit o’ spice

He hit the Return key

(That was a roll of the dice!)

; As his system crashed down,

he said, "Well, this isn’t nice!"

I

Yes, Windows is demonic

... don’t you think?

[Repeat Chorus]

It’s a simple subterfuge this Win 95

Its hype is so thick you

can cut it with a knife

If you’d bought a Mac the first time, you wouldn’t have this strife

i (Spoken)

I If you want the machine of your dreams,

‘ you’d better get a clue, not a life

Yes, Windows is demonic

. . . don’t you think?

A littlejoojiemonic

and I really do think

[Repeat Chorus]

[Shut Down]

[Power Off]

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I See your dentist twice a year.

And don’t forget to put the seat down when you’re done!

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letters

the disc

Now, more fonts per megabyte than your average high-fiber breakfast cereal,

Take a tour through Timelapse, Phototools, Pajama Sam, and Mega Math Blasters! There are links to the vendors’ Web sites, tool

THIS ISSUE

Turn to this screen to find programs and files mentioned in the magazine. Whenever you see a disc icon in print, you’ll know to come here on the CD.

Here’s where you’ll find enough shareware and freeware to satisfy even the most demanding hard disk’s appetite. Come here to turn your machine into a big Mac!

Betcha didn’t know that the Internet was powered by pyramids. Turn here to link to MacAddict’s Web site.

This helpful screen is available on all five major screens. All controls are carefully explained.

Use this handy jumping point to get to any other screen on The Disc.

SHAREWARE

INDEX

YOU asked for it— you got it You asked for tons of fonts and we are happy to oblige. Go to the “This Issue” section, dial up highlights, and gasp In awe at the cornucopia of faces. Anything else? Icons, clip art, the moon? Write to letters@macaddlct. com and we’ll see what we can do. Oh, yeah, just don’t click on any MacAddict logos. Curiosity killed the cat, you know.

In Pop The Disc into your CD-ROM drive.

2. Double-click the Start Here icon for your System.

3. Have fun!

REQUIREMENTS

Any Mac can access the shareware, demos, and System software from the Finder. Accessing the full CD-ROM interface requires 12MB of real RAM with System 7.1 or earlier; 16MB of real RAM with System 7.5 or later.

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Descent II — Blast your way past enemy robots with powerful new tools, leaving their flaming hulks in your exhaust. It’s all-new levels of outrageous destruction, with new weapons and enemiesi Power Mac required.

Bungle— Marathon Infinity

800-295-0060

http://www.bungie.com

Marathon Infinity contains “Blood Tides of Lh’owon," a brand- new 30-level scenario, “Forge," Bungle's own powerful Map Editor, and “Anvil," a single tool for easy modification of shapes, sounds, and physics models.

Changeling— Amber

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800-769-2768

http://www.changling.com

Journey into the unknown, exploring supernatural realms of extraordinary beauty and haunting elegance. Unravel mysteries hidden vwfriin compelling stories of heart- numbing tragedy, mind-numbing obsession, and c^ild-like innocence. With amazingly life-like images, subtle environmental sounds, a compelling soundfrack, and thor- oughly developed characters and stories, /Vnber. Journeys Beyond will completely immerse you in the experience of several lifetimes.

MacSaft— Prime Target 800-229-2714

A powerful senator is brutally murdered while working late In her Washington, D.C. office. Now you must solve the mystery of her death in this action-packed 3D shoot-’em-up. Prime Target thrusts you into the most dynamic Mac gaming world ever. Blood spatters on the wall. Glass shatters in your face. And the interactive mystery challenges your intellect as you hunt the senator’s killers in Washington’s conridors of power.

PowerProductlon— WahBurst

webburst

800-457-0383

http://www.powerproduction.com WebBurst gives the Internet a facelift! It puts a new wave into surfing the Net. Interactive sound and motion can now be experi- enced with any Java-enabled browser. And it’s drag-and-drop- easy to create. No coding, no compiling necessary! Just add it to your existing Web page.

Eupopa Software— Web Quick

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Frustrated by Bookmarks? Web Quick tracks every page you visit, and automatically organizes the page list by Site. It lets you create custom Topics — and keeps them all at your fin- gertips with handy pop-up menus. Web Quick even con- verts existing Bookmarks. No wonder MacWEEK calls it “the first Web utility that is essential”!

GT IntBPaclIve— ZPC

800-454-1900

http://www.sonicdesktop.com Now you can quickly create music or sound effects customized to your exact specifications. This revolutionary new software makes the job easy while always giving you professional results. Try the demo on the enclosed CD and you'll see why SmartSound is the /Absolute Easiest Way To Create Customized Professional Quality Soundtracks.

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ZPC places the player as Arman, a fourth-generation Psionic War Messiah recently released from cryogenic imprison- ment. With no memory of his illustrious heritage, Arman has few clues to his true mission: save his people, vanquish the evil occult group known as the Black Brethren, and utterly destroy the Dark Being they worship. Only then can he reclaim his Psionic crown and unite his followers.

Westwood Studios— Westwood Chat

800-874-4607

http://www.westwood.com

Need a place to find other Mac gamers!? Try out the new Macintosh version of Westwood Chat— the program that lets you talk with other gamers around the world in real-timel And with the new Internet-ready games by Westwood Studios, you'll be able to challenge people all over the planet to great games like Monopoly and Command & Conquer!

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If you have another problem with The Disc, please stop by <http://www.macaddict. com/cdrom> before you send us e-mail. If there isn’t a solution there, then please let us know about it at letters® macaddict.com.

If you’re having prob- lems with System software, we recommend calling the good folks at (800) SOS-

APPL. They’ll be more than happy to help you.

And if you are having trouble with one of the programs on our disc, please be sure to read the accompanying read me for contact Info. To make It easier for you to find help for the programs on The Disc, we’ve conveniently added e-mail and Web contacts in the Shareware and This Issue sec- tions. Whenever you click on install, you’ll find the following helpful dialog:

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text over an image, and change its attributes. Before placing the text, you can add more text, deselect it, and reselect the first bit. Amazing!

Also on The Disc

In addition to these four demos, you’ll find nine more demos on The Disc. They are not accessible from our inter- face, though. You’ll need to open up the Demos folder in the finder. Along with productivity tools, the mega-cool Disc also contains demos of two more children’s programs.

The demo of Just Me and My Mom offers the first page of this popular children’s book. Little Critter narrates his trip to the city with Mom. See Little Critter buy train tickets to the city. Watch out for the froggie!

In this demo of Elroy’s Costume Closet you can clothe Elroy in just about any costume.

Choices range from a busy bee to a freaked out frog to a noble Knight. Elroy offers snappy commentary as you dress him.

This month’s Disc features music created by MacAddict readers. Gregory Brettell and Laura Lopez created tracks one (Obsession) and two (I Know You Really Wanna) on a llsi. Seventeen-year- old Chuck Latshaw made tracks three (Lunatic) and four (Groove Train) on a Performa 550. Would you like to see your name in lights? Send your record- ings and a photo (in any digital format— no tape cassettes, please) to: Music Mavens, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA, 94005. If we like it, we’ll use it on a future Disc. Please do not send us the theme to the Simpsons! All recordings must be your own original material which you made from scratch and haven’t yet published. You do retain all rights to your work and just give us permission to use it on The Disc. Your music, of course, should be made on a Mac!

AND THE

Claris Home Page

Jason Denonville from Florida decoded No- vember’s CD-ROM contest. He’ll be creating Web sites galore with his new copy of Claris Home Page. Turn back to page 17 to read all about your chance win BIAS Peak.

2. Timelapse

Timelapse will transport you to exotic places. You’ll need to solve puzzles in the pyramids, make mincemeat of the

What’s a plug-in folder without plug-ins? What’s a Mac app without palettes? Add Extensis Photoshop plug-ins and see what a difference a few smart tools can make. PhotoText alone is enough to make any Photoshop-head’s jaw drop in awe: you can place

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Mega Math Blasters is an out-of-this-worid way to learn math while pretending to be a space hero. This non-interactive demo will give you a taste of the many brain teasers available in this title. Each game helps your children build their math skills. Stop Gelator before he takes over the galaxy!

4. PhotoTools

Adjust Color- B«...

Demos are versions of commercial products that are not fully functional. Play them directly from The Disc, or copy them to your hard disk. This month we bring you a plethora of children’s software demos. If you want to escape out of a demo, usually typing cmd-. (period) will return you to our application.

1. Pajama Sam

I In “No Need To Hide When It’s Dark Outside,’’ It’s your job to help Pajama Sam find his flashlight and lunchbox so he can capture darkness and put him in the lunchbox. The demo has four different sites to explore. Each site has a puzzle to solve and has plenty of wacky objects for kids (and grown-ups) to click on. The first time you play the demo it will test your CD drive for speed. Turn to our review (p89) to see what the kids thought.

3. Mega Math Blasters

Mayans, and outwit the Anasazi. Your quest begins on Easter Island where you find an alien device which eventually leads you to Atlantis. With amazingly rendered scenery and responsive navigation, this new point-and-click-adventure is sure to please.

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Election Eve, 2004 A.D.

A powerful senator is brutally murdered while working late in her Washington D.C. office. Now you must solve the mystery of her death in this action-packed 3D shoot-em-up. Prime Target thrusts you into the most dynamic Mac gaming world ever. Blood splatters on the wall. Glass shatters in your face.

And the interactive mystery challenges

your intellect as you hunt the senator’s kUlersin Washington’s corridors of power.

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OUR WEB SITE links to the latest versions of software.

FUN AND GAMES

Bubble Trouble

Author: Ambrosia Software Shareware: $15

Ah yes, another Ambrosia arcade game that’s sure to please both kids and adults alike. In Bubble Trouble you are a fish, a fish with enemies, a fish in a bowl of bubbles and bonuses. Push the happy bubbles into the evil fishies and worms. Push gems together to get more moolah.

CREATIVE TOOLS

Designer Draw

Author: Paul Hyman Freeware

Need a quick tool to flesh out an idea? Designer Draw is a drawing program that

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performs basic functions. With just a few tools you can create nifty diagrams. Assemble boxes, arrows, and text in different combinations, and you’ve got anything from a flow chart to a rough schematic diagram to an org chart.

Pixel Spy

Author: Bryan Horling Shareware: $5

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Pixel Spy is an invaluable tool to anyone creating screen art for CD-ROMs or the Web. To get the color value of something on screen (that’s not in your image-editing program), you could do one of two things: scream at your Mac and pull your hair out, or take a screenshot of your desktop, open it in your image-editing program, then use the eyedropper tool to find the right pixel, and finally open up the color picker to get the value. Oh, you wanted that for the Web? You’ll need a conversion tool, too.

Pixel Spy saves you from either of these horrendous options. With the program open, your cursor becomes a telescope spying on the pixels that comprise the screen image. Capturing a color displays the pixel’s RGB (red, green, blue), HSV (hue, satu- ration, vector), CMY (cyan.

magenta, yellow) values. The program converts the RGB value into hex code, simplify- ing your Web-editing life. Also for the inner Webmaster in all of us is a color matcher, which picks the color in Navigator’s palette closest to the chosen color. This prevents your image from dithering when displayed in a Web browser.

STEFAN'S

SHAREWARE

SELECTIONS

This close to the date of a new system release — Mac OS 7.6 — it’s a little dangerous to recommend system utilities. There’s a good chance that something will break — system utilities expect the Mac OS to behave in a certain way, and if the system changes, all hell could break loose. That’s not to say that utilities will definitely break, but to ward against this possi- bility, we’ve included several similar utilities that perform pretty much the same func- tion. If one of the utilities breaks under Mac OS 7.6 and the author doesn’t release an update, these other utilities can take its place.

Many programs have a “Window” menu, from which the available open windows can be selected. Having a menu devoted to switching between windows is very useful, especially when the window that you want is buried under several others and you have a smaller moni- tor. This feature is so useful that when a program doesn’t

have one, it is sorely missed. Fortunately, there are utilities which add a universal Window menu to all applications, even to the Finder.

WIndowMenu is a share- ware control panel/extension combo that cycles through your open windows.

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171 Enable Window Popup Menu { Ctrl Option

pCmdlTI Ctrl fTfOpt P Shift

|71 Enable Hotkey to cycle forward Option + Tab

Choose Hotkey...

pi Enable Hotkey to cycle backward

NAVIGATE THROUGH your windows using a pop-up menu as shown here, or via the keyboard.

If pop-up menus and key- board commands aren’t your thing, Gaspod and WinMenu are two utilities that add a new menu icon next to the Guide menu. KantaraWinMenu does the same with all OpenDoc parts. — Stefan Anthony

Thu 13:01 PM

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Enough Work Let’s Play.

Command Your Omi Squad of Marines in 3D

Take command of an elite special forces unit in this extraordinary 3D first-person shooting extravaganza. Lead four highly-trained marines on six deadly covert missions. Rght for your own life while strategically issuing orders to your squad. All in 3D. So real you’ll be a bloody wreck before it’s over.

MSRP;$49:99 53422

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.'Any Power Macintosh with color monitor and CD-ROM drive.

ummat Action!

the most exhilarating flight game ^ j ^

offers 3D texture-map^d

extraordinary destruction. Fight your way throu^ 9 unique planets witli an awesome array of spectacular air-to-air and air-toground combat action. A ^ / CJQ

.gripping hlgh'Speed action from moment me.’’ MSRP; 149:99 a

-Compute Gaming Worid

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Any Power Macintosh with color monitor and CD-ROM drive.

lots more. Call for a free catalog or visit our website at www.wizworks.com

Available now from your favorite reseller,

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the disc

HKHUGHTS

You’ve got a ticket to type and you don’t kern. We dipped into our wisdom of fonts to bring you two fabulous features. Once you’ve learned how to cast type (“Facing Up to Fonts,” p36), pop in The Disc. Along with the following fonts, there are several utilities which will help you manage these fonts. You’ll also find a demo of Fontographer so you can follow along with Nikki Echler’s ‘Just your Type” tutorial (p48).

How To

In “How to Add Sound to a Web Page” (p96), contributing editor Joe Holmes walks you through making a sound for your Web site. To play it back in your browser, though, you need to set up a helper app. We’ve included the utilities Sound App and Sound Machine mentioned in this article. Just installing them on your machine is not enough — you’ll need to tell your browser where they are. Here’s how to do this using Navigator 2.x.

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Apple Software: New & Improved

Our December roundup of Apple software locations focused on Apple’s multitudi- nous FTP (file) servers. But soon after the issue saw print, Apple’s tireless software gnomes repaired and upgraded the once-rickety Web interface to its software libraries. Through an ingenious array of CGIs and scripts, this Web-based inter- face divvies up traffic among Apple’s various FTP servers.

As a starting point, consult the list of software update mirror sites. At the top of the screen are buttons which show you the most recently posted files and let you browse Apple’s software library. Recently added are a search fea- ture and an alpha- betical listing, avail- able in both U.S. and international flavors. Even cooler is the Apple Featured Items page, which brings together download links and Tech Info Library documentation for Apple’s latest, greatest software updates. From the System 7.5.5 Update to Open Transport/PPP 1 .0, from Cyberdog 1.1 to the Daily Information Alley, it’s all here on this one handy page.

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More News Than You Can Use

Like most Mac addicts with Internet access and an uncon- trollable itch to surf, the advent of the World Wide Web has turned us into ravening-mad news junkies. At the MacAddict Web site, we strive to highlight the most important or Interesting news, cramming in links and pointers to the very latest software updates or other scandalous revelations.

Let’s say you want more. More news, more super- obscure software updates, more obscure little bugs and all the rumor-mongering your eyes can take in, all of it piped into your browser as soon as It comes off the virtual presses. Where do the really hardcore Mac news addicts park their browsers?

For in-depth news analysis, it’s hard to beat “MacWEEK.” The venerable weekly maga- zine now publishes stories daily on its Web site. Editorial frills such as copyediting and fact- checking sometimes keep “ MacWEEK” ’s coverage a few hours behind other sites, but when it finally weighs In It’s worth the wait. We do wish they’d shut up about Be for a little while, though.

Another top-notch produc- tion is MDJ, “The Daily Journal for Serious Macintosh Users.” This subscription-based news- letter is delivered to your mail- box in either text or Adobe Acrobat format. It’ll cost you $14.95 a month, but you can try a two-week free trial before you commit your cash. For more info, see the MDJ Web site.

If it’s troubleshooting and bug reports you’re after, make a daily visit to MacFixIt and MacInTouch every day. MacFixIt started as an online update to Ted Landau’s book “Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters,” but like Frankenstein’s monster It’s taken on a life of its own and has become the premier place to find out about potential problems and their solutions. RIc Ford’s MacInTouch Home Page is a bit more general in focus — as well as cover- ing the trou- bleshooting beat, the well- connected columnist and consultant is privy to tons of gossip and up-to-the- minute info.

FORGET THE TIP-thls is the iceberg. More Mac news links than any one human being could digest.

If after all this, your lust for news remains unsated, perhaps you’re ready for the raw, unfiltered news-mania of MacSurfer’s Headline News. Here you’ll find pointers to everything — every scrap of Mac-related news published anywhere on the Web. It’s a senses-shattering barrage of sheer data, an effort that inspires both awe at the staff members’ thoroughness and sincere concern for their sanity. —MS

Since we removed our fake browser and replaced it with one that could actually follow links, we decided it was time to give the LiveWire section a facelift. Come here for the Apple News, Updated Software, and a Sneak Preview of next month’s issue.

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APPLE’S NEW EXTENSIONS MANAGER groups System resources into packages. The packages allow you to see which components were installed together.

Just launch the installer, follow four steps, and go have some coffee and a bagel.

They say the best things in life are free. These cool, static-cling decals of the Apple logo are no exception. Stick one on your car and show the world your true colors. Get your hands on packs of five simply by dialing up StartingLine at 800-373-0877 and asking for part L01 970A. Place orders via e-mail at <s.line.order@apple-link.apple.com > . — NE

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Let’s dispense with all the tired music metaphors and get right to the point: Harmony has a name, and it is Mac OS 7.6. And it’s going to be here soon. So is it a big deal? Should you care? It depends on what you want out of an operating system. If you want OpenDoc, improved reUabiUty, easier installation, and better extensions management, Mac OS 7.6 is for you. If, however, your Mac is not 32- bit clean or has a processor slower than a 68030, you’re out of luck — Mac OS 7.6 won’t work on those machines. (The unsupported Macs include the original LC, Mac II, Mac IIx, Hex, SE/30, and Power- Book 100) . Mac OS 7.6 also won’t work on PowerPC platform (aka CHRP) computers.

Mac OS 7.6 is the first step on the road to OS 8. As such, it doesn’t do much. None of the buzzwords — not appearance man- ager, preemptive multitasl^g, or memory protection — made it into this release. What did make it in, however, is pretty spi%.

Mac OS 7.6 automatically installs Open- Doc 1.1 as part of the installation process, which is a big plus for Live Object developers. Now they’re assured that the technology they need is installed on each new Mac. Fear not, conservative adopters of new technology! Because OpenDoc is dynamically loaded (unlike Extensions), it doesn’t take one whit of System resources (other than a little hard disk space) until it’s needed. If you don’t work with Open- Doc, you won’t waste RAM or open yourself to new problems just by having OpenDoc installed. And it will be there for you if you need it. (Like a good neighbor...)

Mac OS 7.6 is supposed to be stable, taking all of rock-solid System 7.5.5’s bug fixes and adding some new ones to keep your Mac perking along. It also includes System 7.5.5’s improved Virtual Memory, improved file manager cache, and Power- PC resource manager to give your Mac a little performance boost.

Mac OS 7.6 also includes a one-stop shopping approach to installation. It orga- nizes all vital information into one Read Me file, allows you to update hard disk drivers, runs Disk First Aid, and then allows you to install Mac OS 7.6 and any other extras (such as Cyberdog or QuickDraw GX) all in the same program. Just launch the installer, follow the four steps, and go have some coffee and a bagel. Your new software will be installed when you get back.

An improved Extensions Manager (version 4.0) will give Casady & Greene’s Conflict Catcher some competition. It can organize extensions by “package” (that is, it groups extensions by the program that installed them) and allows you to turn on and off all extensions belonging to a par- ticular program. This little ability is useful

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Mac OS 7.6 also lists the following among its bonuses: improved desktop printers and printing dialog boxes, PowerPC-native LaserWriter 8.4 software, new DataViz MacLinkPlus translators, enhanced PC Exchange for Windows 95, PlainTalk 1.5, OT/PPP 1.0, and multi- processor support. Mac OS 7.6 is a System software release (as opposed to an update, as was System 7.5.5), which means it’s going to cost money. How much, Apple hasn’t said. — DR

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SMOKIN’

AND SCREAMING FAST

Remember, oh, three, four years ago, when a 25MHz processor in a Mac seemed fast? Try multiplying that by 20 and stand back, mister. Tliat’s what Exponential did with its new X704 PowerPC- compatible chip. This screamer comes in three speeds — 466MHz, 500MHz, and 533MHz — and it’s coming to a Mac near you sometime in the next six months.

Exponential says that the X704 is completely PowerPC instruction- and bus- compatible, which means this chip can be put in Macs (with just a few tweaks to- the power supply’s voltage level and a big fan) and will run the Mac OS and Mac applica- tions just like a regular PowerPC chip — only faster. No special system needed. Exponen- tial hcensed the PowerPC architecture from IBM in early 1996, and the company has been working closely with Apple.

To help bust bus bottlenecks, the X704 has two different kinds of cache on the chip that make sure the processor always has something to chew on. The first is a pair of 2K caches, one for instructions and one for data; the second is a 32K unified cache. The chip can take advantage of Level 2 cache fike today’s PowerPC chips.

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All this speed won’t come cheap. The chips are expected to sell for about $1,000 each, compared with $520 for a 200MHz Motorola 604e. Mac systems running the X704 are expected to ship by July. Imagine showing off a multiprocessor Mac running four 533MHz X704 processors to your Pen- tium Pro friends who top out at 200MHz. Won’t they be impressed? — DR

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Yowza! These poor dogs have escaped the kennel and can’t find their way home. Can you name the Macin- tosh mascots so we can return them to their owners? Of course, with all those dogs cooped up in one place, you’ll need a copy of Aladdin Systems’

Spring Cleaning to clean up the mess. For your chance to win, enter on our Web site, or snail mail your entry to Mixed-up Mascot, MacAddict, 1 50 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005. We will pick a winner at random from correct entries received by February 15, 1997.

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It’s enough to drive a person positively batty trying to keep up with new Mac OS-compatible computer makers. PowerTools, a Texas-based com- pany that has been manufacturing PowerPC accelerator boards for more than a year, reached an agreement with Motorola to sublicense the Mac OS and pur- chase Tanzania motherboards (co-developed by Motorola and Apple) to build its own Mac compatibles. The new crop of

These replicants last longer than six years.

Macs — titled the Infiniti series — ^will be available in two vari- eties: a build-your-own box and a fully configured box.

The three build-your-own- box Infiniti clones will include a tower case, the motherboard, and a floppy disk drive. Similar to the build-your-own scheme from APS, PowerTools will pro- vide boxes without a hard drive or any RAM installed, so they’re ideal for anyone who already has these components or who can get them cheaply. The four unconfigured clones are pretty reasonable: a l60MHz 603e- based Infiniti at $899, a 200MHz 603e-based Infiniti at $1,099, a l60MHz 604e-based InMti at $1,499, and a 200MHz 604e- based Infiniti at $1,499.

PowerTools will also sell three Infiniti bundles, more familiar to traditional Mac buyers. The Smart Bundle, for $1,399, features a l60MHz 603e, 16MB of RAM, a 1.3GB hard drive, and 2MB of VRAM. The $2,449 Pro Bundle features a 200MHz 604e, 24MB of RAM, a 2.5GB hard drive, 512K of L2 cache, and 2MB of VRAM. The Elite Bundle features a 200MHz 604e, 32MB RAM, 2.5 GB hard drive, 512K of Level 2 cache, Yamaha external speakers, and a 33.6Kbps internal modem.

All of PowerTools’ bundles include an 8X CD-ROM, a key- board, and a mouse, and all come in a minitower base. They also feature four 3V^-inch and three 5V4-inch drive bays, three

DIMM slots, five PCI slots, VRAM upgradable to 4MB, an SVGA monitor port (sorry, Macintosh

monitor owners; you’ll have to buy an adapter), an ADB port, a PS/2 port, and the ability to upgrade to multiple processors. The Infiniti line also includes a one-year warranty, an optional extended warranty, and a free upgrade to Mac OS 7.6.

PowerTools expected to start shipping units in mid- to late December 1996, with bulk pro- duction starting in early 1997. Call PowerTools at 800-891" 4307 or go to <http://www.pwr tools.com>. — DR

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One of th0 original ctIgJtat document programs has added a slew of new (mostly tnternet-relaled) features, including forms (complete with pop- up lists and radio buttons), the ability to embed PDF files in an HTML page, and dynamic controls that can link to movies. Acrobat also includes progressive rendering and page-at-a-time downloading to help ;; speed up Internet-related PDF files.

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Hoo-jit Think It Was?

We thought the “Identify the Hoojit” contest in our November 1996 issue (p27) was sure to be a stumper. We were pleasantly surprised by the number of Mac addicts who blew the gadget’s raison d’etre. Of course, there were also a number of you who had no clue ^despite the horrendous pun in the contest rules). In keeping with the MacAddict tradition of rewarding ignorance if offset by creativity, we give space to the following amusing and bizarre answers: Stuart Ward called the hoojit a chunk of metal with paint. Well, so is an automobile. Jeff Vincent was one of several people who decided the hoojit was a monitor squeegee — don’t try that at home, kids.

Readers who resorted to Nikki’s clue on The Disc generally did not get far. The key was the tool she used to open her soda can — a Torx screwdriver. On older, all-in-one Macs such as the Plus or SE, iipple used special six- sided screws to hold the Mac together. This design was intended to prevent the more curious among

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by the built-in monitor’s capacitor. The Torx screwdriver Nikki used to open her soda fits into those

special screws. After removing the screws, you use the hoojit to spread apart the case. With a Torx screwdriver and the hoojit, you can crack the case of any classic Mac.

Several readers gave us low-tech solutions if you don’t have the hoojit. Tom Vermilion uses a karate chop method, in which the vic- tim Mac is set face down on a bench after the case screws are removed and is given a mighty chop on both sides of the case. John Christie prefers a couple of well-placed sharp raps, which make him feel like the Fonz. Greg Thorny uses the mysterious Lucille, who has

November’s Mystery Revealed

the ‘most natural, long, strong fingernails.’

Kee Nethery — ^who identified the hoojit — also guessed that it was included with the Micah internal hard drive for the Mac Plus. Micah might have included one, but sorry, Kee, this particular hoojit was included in a 32-piece Curtis computer toolkit. Along with a soldering iron, the toolkit also included a spring claw useful for removing the locator implanted in your brain by aliens.

Peter Wright was the lucky winner drawn from the pool of correct entries. Peter will be adding an SMB DIMM to his Power Mac 8500, courtesy of Newer Technology (a company with a sense of humor, we might add) . Find the list of runners-up on our Web site. — KT

What a Character

SPEAK IT, don’t type IT

SO what do you do when your language has more than 6,000 characters and you want to write a letter? Design a really big keyboard and buy ftitures in key switches? Well, you could, but if the language you want to enter into your Mac is Chinese, you can drop $165 on Apple’s Advanced Chinese Input Suite and be set.

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recognition offerings. Handwriting Kit 1.0,

the Chinese Text-To-Speech 1,0.2, and the Apple Dictation Microphone. After a few weeks of practice with Ae Chinese Dictation Kit, MandW speakers can enter up to 80 characters per minute — ^just by speatog. The Chinese Handwriting Kit 1.0 allows users to enter either simplified or traditional Chinese characters using a Mac-compatible graphics tablet, or even a mouse. The input suite also uses Text-to-Speech so users can have their Macs read selected Chinese text back to them. Meanwhile, Apple continues to improve its speech-recognition offering for Western Mac users with the PlainTalk 1.5 package.

English speech recognition now works on every PowerPC-based Mac — ^including previously unsupported PowerBooks and Performas — ^with a l6-bit microphone and System 7.5 or later. Take advantage of the new Talking Alerts option, and the voice of your choice will enunciate the contents of alert messages. Imagine, if you will, the sweet sound of Zarvox intoning “Printer needs attention.” An upgraded Speakable Items util- ity and a passel of speech-recognition bug fixes and reliability improvements round out the package. It’s available free from <htlp:// www.speech.^ple.com/ptk>. — DR and MS

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Easy Web Publishing!

Drag & l^p to Create Your Own Home Page

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Localize your copy of Presto! Personal Page in English, French, German & Spanish.

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What Mac would be complete without its own complement of very cool toys? Although not specifically meant for the Mac, these diversions are so much in the spirit of using a Mac that we had to include them. Being a Mac fanatic is often an adventur- ous pursuit in these days of Windows and Intel, but you can

prepare for survival by equipping yourself with Wild IN THE TRUE MAC SPIRIT. Planet Toys. Wild Planet has seen fit to create the

Megascope microscope and telescope, the Signal Glove secret code communicator, the Supersonic Ear long-distance microphone, the Trek Pack utility belt, and the Beast Blaster foam creature glider. For engineers on a program bug search-and-destroy mission, Wild Planet offers Bugscapes mini bug houses and the Bug Catcher, which lets you catch bugs without touching them (especially nasty in C++).

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You Don’t Know Jack, Vol. 2

Berkeley Systems

SO you think you know something, huh? Think you’re smart. Yeah, reeeal smart. Bet you shout out answers while watching ‘Jeopardy.” When was the last time someone was willing to play Trivial Pursuit with you? The folks at Berkeley Systems know your kind, and they’ll play with you. They’re betting that you love to field clever questions, make collect calls to celebrities such as Tim Allen, Nell

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Spring Cleaning

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CLEAN THE DUST OUT OF THAT DRIVE. able to give you the number of a good lawyer), but it can help you clear the digital equivalent off of

your hard drive. Spring Cleaning (formerly LaundroMac) is an uninstaller that also removes dupli- cate files, unused fonts, and orphaned help files, and puts a real shine on the of Preferences folder by getting rid of those files that you don’t need. Spring Cleaning also finds and reattaches orphaned aliases and trims fat applications of their redundant code. Isn’t It worth the measly $49.95 introductory price to have a bright, shiny hard drive? If you agree, contact Alladin at 408-761-6200, or point your browser to <http://www.aladdinsys.com>. Please. Even the mayor will be happy.

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Contour Design cares. That’s why it created the Contour Mouse, the first mouse that comes In many sizes — large, medium, and small for both left- and right-handed mousers. The mice are ergonomically molded to fit the hand and come with a thumb rest. Three programmable buttons help you get the most out of your mouse with the least strain. For only $59.95 and a phone call to 603-893-4556, or a browse over to <http://

www.contourdes.com>,

COMFORTABLE CURVES AND A SEA CREATURE. your very own. For those who

like trackballs and have a fondness for the muscle car by the same name, CoStar

(http://www.costar.com; 800-426-7827) presents the Stingray 4.0 trackball. The Stingray 4.0 features two programmable buttons, a virtual third button, application- and user- specific settings, and the ability to use the Stingray sideways or upside-down (not you, silly, the trackball). For only $59.95, it’s available in Apple platinum or Stealth Black for those super-secret computing missions.

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or “endeavor.” It also means “a seasonal desire to mate,” according to “Webster’s,” You, too, can amuse your friends and acquaintances (assuming you have any if you persist in this behavior) by looking up obscure word synonyms with Nisus Writer 5.0’s thesaurus. Version 5.0 is jam-packed with some nifty other features, including

AppleScript support, full ALMOST AS MUCH FUN AS “THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.” drag and drop, com- mand-clicking of URLs to open them, and QuickDraw GX support. Nisus Writer 5.0 is even an Open Doc container, which means you can embed your favorite Live Objects in its documents. All this for only $257 direct from Nisus Software ($149 if you own another word processor, and $69.95 if you own any previous version of Nisus Writer). Contact Nisus at 800-281-0101 or go to <http://www.nisus-soft.com> so you can make your own list of fun-to-took-up words. And you’ll know they’re spelled correctly.

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you big math power, including THE PROGRAM IS EASIER THAN THE NAME,

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and logic functions. The program also includes date and time formatting, and it resizes views to make room for new elements on the fly.

Once you’ve established the formulas, collapse them into operators so you don’t have to see the gory mathematical details or fear erasing those hard-written formulas. The program even features a built-in calculator. Call 800-359-4920 or go to <http://www.casadyg.com> to rid yourself of =SUM(A7:A33) forever.

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When it comes to cool games for the Mac* the world is your virtual oyster. (And if you’d ever look up from your computer for a second, you’d Imow this.) So, while we’re lucky enough to have your attention, know this; you can find great Mac software on the web, in pretty catalogs and lots of great places

MechWarrior2 puts you in control of the BattkMech, the awesome 3 Jst- centuiy war machine. Customize one of 15 Mechs to fight in over 30 challenging missions against enemy Mechs. Ascend the ranks of your clan to become the ultimate MechWarrior. From Activision.

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Gabriel Knight, the hero of the spine-tingling "Sins of the Father',’ scares the living pants off us once again as he solves this multiple mutilation murder tale, The Beast Within. You'll leave evety light on in the house for a week after this one. From Sierra On-Line.

Never again feel the loss associated with finishing a game of Marathon. The third chapter brings it all fidl circle, and Bungle’s own editing tools give you limitless power to create the adventures. We still recommend retina breaks ever)' 30 hours or so. From Bungle.

Descent Ws new 360’‘3~D animation will keep you glued to the screen for hours as you battle an armada of crazed robots. You ’ll tap into a ton of cool, high-tech weapomy and all the wits and reflexes you can muster as you try to fight off the onslaught. From MacPlay.

WarCraft U, the best-selling PC game, now explodes on the Macintosh: Take command of either the ruthless Ocrs or the noble humans in your quest to rule the land ofAzeroth. Make powerful new allies, battle teiriffing new creatures, conquer new lands. From Blizzard Entertainment

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like Best Buy and CompUSA (understanding, of course, that leaving the house is unavoidable ifyou want to visit one of the stores). In fact, just short of beaming game code directly into your cerebral cortex via satellite, you can get your hands on the really good stuff almost any way you want. Th begin your obsession with Mac software and to check out all these different ways to buy, get on the Internet and plant yourself in front of our web site at http://www.macsoftware.apple.com. Or, if you’re into tradition, call 800-500-4862

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want to know about type

by Ted Alspach

Download a bunch of

these cool fonts off The Disc and learn how to tame them

t’s an obsession. You’re sitting in a movie theater, riveted to the big screen as the film’s opening credits flash through a spine-tingling sequence of exploding bombs, screaming tourists, and seductive villains. Suddenly, you sit straight forward, as if to get a better look, muttering, “I can’t believe it!”

with the font management demos.

Your date turns to you, as enraptured with the on-screen action as you appear to be, and asks, “What? What is it?”

Disappointed and disgusted, you shake your head in disbelief. “They’re reversing Bodoni. The serifs are practically nonexistent!” Everyone down the line from professional graphic designers to page layout initiates can trace this strange font fixation back to the birth of the Macintosh, the first computer to ship with multiple fonts installed. Chicago, Geneva, Monaco, and New York: In 1984, these four typefaces instandy became as famous as the cities that inspired

them. As the Mac quickly became the computing standard for graphic designers, this paltry collection of characters bloomed into a thriving industry that has since spawned thousands of typefaces, multiple font managers, design dilemmas, and a jargon all its own.

As confusing as it sounds, you don’t need to be a graphics pro to keep the peace in all of your extended font families. Even if you don’t know your x-height jfrom a dingbat, we’ll bring you up to speed on font terms, design issues, and management techniques in our three- part guide that will make storing and using your fonts a breeze.

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nuclear fiision engineering (i.e., rocket science) to install and remove fonts. Just do the following: - ^ //

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onto your System Folder Your Mac

will autdmatica%^^ them in the Fonts folder, which is inside the . System Folder. ^ -

3. Remove fonts by dragging them from the Fonts folder (inside the System Folder) to a location on your hard drive outside the System Folder.

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fonts

Learning the Lingo

Before you attempt to wrestle your fonts into sub- mission, you should know exactly what sort of beast you’re up against. You need to get to know your fonts. Spend time with them. Play with them. But first, find out what they like to be called with our illustrious illustrated naming device.

Garamond Book Condensed COPPERPLATE Palatine Rotis Semi -Serif

“font” interchangeably. Althou^ this Each font is unique, usage is technic^y incorrect, it has become so common that everyone except diehard typography snobs deem it acceptable.

Font All of the letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation marks of one size of one style of one typeface.

Specifically Officina Serif book is a font, Officina Serif book italic is another font, and Officina Serif bold is yet another font. You get the idea. Four faces: so different!

Display fonts EXTRA!

EXTRA! These statuesque fonts, such as Swiss Black Extended, are sized at 14 points or bigger and used Catch your eye? This is display type, mostly for headlines.

DISPLAY

Officina Serif book Officina Serif book italic

Officina Serif bold Officina Serif bold italic

Typeface All of the letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation marks of a particular design. A typeface can be made up of a variety of styles, or fonts. In these modem days, many people often use the terms “typeface” and

Decorative fonts

Too flashy for everyday use, decorative fonts such as Amelia are used sparingly to create a mood or evoke a predicted response. And they look great in logos!

Text fonts Text fonts, such as Caslon and Garamond make long pas- sages of text easy to read.

Point A point, which is Vj2 of an inch, is used to measure type size. Twelve- point type is fine for reading, l4-point and larger loofe good in display type, and 6-point type makes up all that fine print at the bottom of advertisements that no one wants you to see.

Dingbats Tiny, decorative pictures such as diamonds, hearts, and stars that are not to be confused with the deliciously flavored marshmallows in Lucky Charms.

Or, anyone who doesn’t read MacAddict. Dingbat silliness.

10 point

14 point

18 point

Get the point size right.

Caslon is a decent enough body font to have survived hun- dreds of years. You can’t really go wrong with Caslon, but just the same, we really adore Garamond.

Simple text makes reading easy.

Qecopstive

When looks are ail that matter.

In a Fix Over File Formats?

If you’ve never worked with fonts before, choosing a file format can be downright confusing. Several rotating liaisons between Adobe and Apple, Apple and Microsoft, and Microsoft and Adobe have borne a slew of different yet functional file formats. How are they different? Which one works the best? We’ll tell you how each font technology works and then give you tips on choosing the appropriate one for you.

Bitmapped

Bitmapped fonts These are the classic, originally-shipped-with-the-first-Mac fonts, such as Geneva and Chicago. Bitmapped characters are created in your Mac and displayed on your screen in pixels. The same pixels you see on the screen are the ones in the font itself, leading them to often be referred to as “screen fonts.” These fonts were printed with the Apple ImageWriter, which offered the same resolution as the Mac screen: 72 dots per inch. Back then, you needed to have a screen font for each point size that you wanted to print, otherwise your Mac would just pull, push, and maneuver the size it had, creating some odd-looking characters.

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PostScript Type 1: In 1985, John Warnock and Chuck Geshke of Adobe Systems created a computer language just for printers, the PostScript page description language, which would revolutionize the font industry. So-called PostScript fonts, which use bitmap data to dis- play your font on-screen, also include extra information describ- ing the characters’ outlines that is sent directly to a PostScript printer.

PostScript print- ers are equipped with built-in proces- sors that interpret this outline information and convert it mathematically (called “rasterizing”) into dots, which the printer needs to reproduce the font. This process results in fonts that you can scale to any point size and print with mini- mal distortion.

You’ll find a PostScript font’s bitmap and out- line information divided into separate files called the screen font and the printer font. The screen font, which is stored in a suitcase icon in your Fonts folder in the System Folder, needs to be installed before your font will appear in the Fonts menu or on-screen. The printer font, however, is a different icon, which is usually stored in the same folder as your screen font. Keeping track of printer fonts can be difficult, because each icon looks different depending on which vendor cre- ated it. It’s smart to keep tabs on both the screen font and the printer font because you must have both installed for a PostScript font to print.

Although PostScript fonts looked terrific in print, their on-screen counterparts still looked rough around the edges until Adobe Type Man^^er (ATM) appeared on the scene in 1989. ATM works like a PostScript printer by using math formulas to rasterize &e outline informa-

tion of your chosen screen font into the dots needed for a smooth on-screen display. ATM also lets you print PostScript fonts to non-PostScript printers such as the old dot matrix ImageWriters and most modem inkjets.

TrueType: In 1990, Apple finally realized that paying license fees to Adobe for the PostScript fonts that they were giving away with their own system software was silly, ^ple teamed up with Microsoft to create fonts that didn’t need PostScript but would work just as well and look just as good. These fonts entered the Macintosh world as Trueiype and still ship with Apple System software. Outline- based and contained all in one file, TmeType works in much the same manner as ATM to cre- ate clean fonts on-screen and off. TrueType fonts work on both Macintosh and Windows systems.

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Multiple Masters:

These are PostScript Type 1 fonts from Adobe with a twist: Each font comes with at least two extremes of one type attribute. For instance, Jenson comes with a very fight ver- sion and a very heavy version. Penumbra comes with several versions: sans serif, serif, roman, and italic. Using special utilities, you create the exact variation of the font you want by basing it on these multiple masters.

OpexiType: Coming soon to a computer near you. Developed jointly by — switch!- — ^Adobe and Microsoft, this format (slated to appear in 1997) will contain the best features of PostScript and

TrueType, and even some of Adobe’s Multiple Master tech- nology. In addition, built-in compression technology will make the fonts more Web- ready (gee, what a surprise). They’ll also be cross-platform compatible.

QuickDraw GX: Apple, ever discontent with existing technology, invested lots of time and cash on QuickDraw GX, an “update” to the QuickDraw software that sends images to your monitor (and non-PostScript printers). To further enhance GX, Apple created a font technology with all sorts of built-in design capabilities that allowed for larger character sets and better-looking on-screen dis- play. GX fonts are capable of 65,000 characters per font, context-sensitive glyphs (different ver- sions of characters that are used based on their position within a word or paragraph to make the type look best), optical alignment (so that letters look like they fine up better), and varying styles (so you can swap among multiple character widths, slants, serif sizes, and even weights). To date, GX has not been accepted because it slows your Mac to a crawl, no major applications support it, and it isn’t cross-platform. But be warned: You will see it again in a later system, m a new and improved form.

TrueType Truism

Decisions, Decisions

How do you decide which kind of font to use? If you’re shooting for a certain look and are willing to fuss around with your font to get it just right. Multiple Master fonts are a dream come true. PostScript or TrueType, however, are used for most practical purposes.

Although choosing a font format is most often a matter of per- sonal preference, you should be aware of each format’s pluses and minuses before settling on one. PostScript fonts, with their dual information files, can create annoying printing problems if you don’t have both on-screen and printer fides installed. TrueType fonts, though contained in one file and much easier to manage, take up more space on your hard disk than PostScript fonts and take longer to print. They also tend to randomly conflict with PostScript printers, causing unpredictable printing problems that range from time delays to total crashes. Graphic designers who send their work to a service bureau for output on liigh-end imagesetters (which are always PostScript machines) should be wary of these potential

All TrueType icons come branded with the letter “A,” but you’ll notice that some TrueType fonts are marked with three “A”s and others with only one. The file with the icon sporting the triple “A” is the only one you need to display and print your TrueType font at all sizes. The TrueType icons marked with a single “A” and labeled with a point size are bitmapped, one-size-only screen fonts— usually the sizes you’ll use most often. You can choose to Install them for a very slight speed Increase on-screen or to trash them and free up valuable memory.

printing dilemmas.

If you’re still waf- fling over formats, here are some guide- lines to help you decide:

Standardize If Possible. A Fonts folder stuffed vrith a mix of TrueType, PostScript, and GX fonts is a disaster waiting to happen. This is very bad. Stick to one format and you’ll nainimize your risk of unwanted printing surprises.

Give In to Peer Pressure. Does your boss worship at the altar of Adobe? Stick with PostScript. Your spouse refuses to have a separate file for screen fonts? Stock up on TrueType.

Save Money, Buy the Cheap Stuff. TrueType fonts tend to be less expensive (on average) than their PostScript counterparts.

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fonts

You can buy as many fonts as you’d like. You can use whichever ones you want in any document. The thing is, use the wrong combination of fonts, the wrong number of fonts, or inappropriate fonts in inappropriate places, and the design police will brutally take you down like Andy Sipowicz on a bender. Keep yourself out of trouble (and maybe even make a few new friends) by adhering to the following rules for using, avoiding, and buying fonts. If you don’t, we will know, and we will find you. We will.

Ten Type Commandments

1. Reversed Type Is Dimcuit to Read.

Anyone who has ever tried to read six pages of white text on a black background in a really cool Mac magazine has probably noticed that it takes much longer to read than the other sections of the magazine. If you haven’t already noticed, we’^

Reversal of Type

redesigned our Disc P^es section. That’s why.

2. Madntosh System Fonts Are Prettier Than Windows System Fonts* Look at a Windows screen. Control your urge to giggle. Look at a Macintosh screen. “Ooh” and “ahh” where appropriate. The eye-pleasing combo of Geneva and Chicago beats out MS Sans Serif every day of the week.

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4. A Little Tracking Goes a Long Way. Tracking, the adjustment of the spacing between letters, can make words look even more like words. Huh? Well, properly tracked letters enhance and solidify the shapes of words, which is key to reading and comprehension.

5. Old-style Numerals Rock. Numbers that dip below the base- line occasionally can make text look much better than standard monospaced numbers. That’s because old-style numerals look like the other text they’re wedged into.

6. Serif Type Looks Better in Print; Sans Serif Works Better On-screen. The smaller and less detailed the type, the more likely that serifs will (a) get lost or (b) appear like gargantuan appendices. Either option results in type that is less readable than a standard sans serif face on-screen (where you have less detail due to a fixed number of pixels).

7. Really Funky Fonts Draw Attention to the Font, Not the Words. Yeah, it’s great that you own a font that turns every letter into a different infectious virus. But even when used as a heading for a story

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Our Top 10 Fonts

If we were stuck on a deserted island, with no Internet connection and no means of escape, and if we were so smart as to be able to power-up our Mac but so stupid as to choose to play with it instead of scavenging for food or building shelter, we would want these fonts to make really cool on-screen documents. So should you.

1. Meta. Developed by artist Eric Speakerman for use by the German Postal Service, this font is not only elegant and versatile but wide — ^Perfect for those long school reports that you need to stretch out.

2. Rotis Semi-Serif, if you’re

feeling indecisive but still want a font that looks good, Rods Semi-Serif lets you have the best of both serif and sans serif worlds.

3. (Shareware) The handwriting lonts of the gods. It has bold- face and Marker versions as well as the regular weight.

4. Monaco. The quintessential

monospaced screen font. When you want each character in a paragraph to be equally spaced, regardless of its God-intended width, look to Monaco as the great equalizer.

5. Helvetica. Everyone has it, and it’s great for minuscule point sizes on legal documents, in case you rear-end someone and need them to sign a waiver.

6. Geneva. It looks great on a

PowerBook screen whether you’re working at 9 or 12 points.

7. (Zapf Dingbats).

Sometimes you need a little check mark. Or a heart. Or a pointing finger.

8. ExiffiPoX (Symbol). The productive side of Zapf Dingbats. When you need to say “the sum of’ without saying “the sum of.”

9. (Shareware) Invaluable for when you’ve just taken hostages and don’t have a magazine and pair of scissors handy.

10. Zapf Cfiancery. The elegant, flowing curves work for bar mitzvah invitations, thank-you notes, and the occasional lewd love letter.

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about infectious viruses, the font will overpower the title. Use these sparingly and as art elements.

8» Drop Caps Should Never Appear in Two Consecutive Paragraphs. Drop caps signify the beginning of something new. Nothing will draw a reader’s eye to the next section faster than an upcoming drop cap (except maybe naked-lady fonts, but that’s an entirely different article).

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9. Robin Williams' "The Mac Is Not a Typewriter" Is Required Reading. If you’ve never read this excellent tome, run out to your local one-stop book shop and pick up a copy, or call PeachPit Press at 800-283-9444. Then read Robin’s follow-up, “Beyond the Mac Is Not a Typewriter.” And then read Robin’s “How to Boss Your Fonts Around.” And then wear one of those cool hats and pretend to be Robin.

10. If You Use Too Many Fonts on a Single Page, Your Mac Will Explode.

It’s a httle-known feature of System 7.5, so don’t pick a different font for every word in a paragraph, or a different font for each heading. Don’t say we didn’t warn you...

Five Most Played- out Fonts of 1996

Overused, tired, and unoriginal, these fonts have appeared in print more times than Bill Gates. Someone get an imagination, quick!

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The first few fonts were free (they came on your Mac). As with any good thing, you now have to pay to keep your font habit going. Where do you go? What font vendors will help you when you’re jonesing for a new font like there’s just no tomorrow?

One inexpensive choice is shareware. Shareware fonts are available in all sorts of places, from the MacAddict Disc to online services (such as America Online) to various Web and ftp sites. Most shareware fonts cost about $5 to $10 per font and are available in both True'fype and PostScript 'fype 1 formats. Beware of font-collection CDs that feature shareware fonts; the cost of the CD does not include the shareware fees for the fonts.

As always with shareware, if you use the fonts, make sure you send in the required fee. These small amounts allow shareware developers to create such great stuff at such low prices.

If you choose to buy commercial fonts, you can order them from most mail-order houses or direcdy from the manufacturer.

The following is a list (in no particular order), in our humble opinion, of some of the best font vendors of Macintosh typefaces.

3. Adobe

(800-833-6687, http://www. adobe.com) King of PostScript. Lord of Fonts. All hail the great Adobe Originals.

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(800-237-3335, http://www.bit stream.com) The blue-collar, work- ingman’s foundry. Less expensive than Adobe and almost as good.

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(800-944-9021, http:// www.emigre.com) Founded in 1984, Emigre helped to spark the alternative design revolution with controversial fonts created by new, lead- ing-edge designers. Here’s your chance to be hip.

2. Letraset

(800-343-8973 , http ://www. letraset . com) Support for the Mac is less than fantas- tic, but Letraset makes a bazillion cool display fonts you won’t find elsewhere.

Beyoml tHectioii. FonlHats also off«n the best prioet, services, special promotiom and expert product knowledge lor Mao and PC floppy disk or CD-Roio users.

5. FontHaus

(800-942-9110, http://www. members.aol.com/fonthaus/ index.html) Lots of unusual stuff. And we mean that as a compliment.

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Fonts for All Ages

As far as fashion history is concerned, the 70s will remain forever trapped in bell-bottom hip-huggers, the ’50s in poodle skirts, and the ’80s in leg warmers and ripped sweatshirts. Much like these tacky clothes, certain typefaces serve to remind us of times past. So if you want to give your flyer, invitation, or logo a notoriously dated look, you might take inspiration from our typeface timeline where we’ve gathered together a sampling of historically nostalgic fonts.

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Hundreds of Years Ago.

Type evoking old styles of the 1500s, l600s, and 1700s almost always falls into the category of “Old English.” The swashes, swirls, and drastic light vs. heavy strokes create a feeling of classic old-style European culture. The Old English style is often used on official documents and wedding invitations. A thick favorite from this set is Fette Fraktur, which seems destined to appear on German hymnal covers.

Turn of the Century.

Woodcut mania. Fonts that look like they belong on a “Wanted” poster in the Old West. Several fonts reminis- cent of this time period have a tendency to showcase overweight, showy serifs. Popular examples include Rosewood (above) and Adobe’s Woodtype fonts, featur- ing such classics as Ponderosa, Poplar, and Willow.

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1930s Art Deco.

Anytime you see art deco fonts, the prewar era suddenly springs to mind. The font style (as well as the hideous decorat- ing motijEs) was en vogue again in the late ’80s but quickly faded away, leaving only a few Nagel-engraved mirrors in its wake.

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The Early '80s.

In the days just prior to the desktop publish- ing boom (before 1988), display typefaces were undergoing changes of weird proportions. Some of the most unusual, bizarre, and odd typefaces were created during this time. Letraset led the charge, supplying design studios with the widest range of fonts imaginable (until the ’90s, at least) .

Why Everyone Hates the '70s.

Two decades ago, no one really thought that wide ties and bell-bottoms would be scoffed at and ridiculed for the next century. It was a dark, dark time for fashion and an equally dark time for fonts. From the perky curves of Souvenir to the fatter, more annoying curves of Cooper Black, popular fonts were bubbly and overly friendly to the point of making most people violendy ill.

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The '60s; Hippy-induced Rock Poster Fonts.

During the late ’60s, designers got groovy on fonts by bending, molding, and twisting them to create mellow, peace-loving typefaces that adorned posters for such mellow, peace-loving bans as The Grateful Dead; Peter, Paul and Mary; and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. These trippy type- faces, such as Arnold Boecklin (above), helped usher in the ’70s, when the sex was even more casual, people weren’t just saying no to drugs, and hippies were allowed to live in odier areas of the nation besides small college campuses and San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district.

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The Late '80s; The Desktop Publishing Revulsion.

If Macs are responsible for anything bad (and because they’re respon- sible for Windows in a roundabout way, this is an arguable point), they are definitely to blame for one of the ugliest disorders ever to appear in the Western Hemisphere, and which is still largely incurable: Multiple Font Us^e Syndrome. This uncontrollable urge to stuff as many fonts, styles, point sizes, angles, and effects as a stock LaserWriter will print onto one p^e has been largely ignored by research centers, and it remains a problem even today.

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The Anti-'908.

As in digital art, the very cool thing to do with your $3,000 Mac is to make your work look as though it was created with anything but a computer. The emergence of several “type- writer” fonts that include all sorts of realistic effects, such as missing characters, angled letters, and ink splotches, have appeared everywhere. In addition, handwritten fonts have become the other rage, kind of a wacky throwback to the time when people used things such as pen and lined paper to communicate.

Controlling Chaos

You have 10 different versions of Tekton floating around your Fonts folder. You get a migraine trying to figure out why Optima won’t show up in your File menu. To top it all off, you’ve had so many problems with corrupted fonts, you feel like you’re running a detention center for wayward typefaces. Face it, you are in the bell jar. Take control of your fonts with the appropriate utilities (we’ll show you how to use ’em), and check out our remedies for your worst font aches and pains.

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The Fonts folder. If the mere mention of that folder makes your blood curdle, and if the dam thing takes about six weeks to open on your 240MHz 603 system, and if you have no idea what’s in there (even the sight of a JimmyHoffa font doesn’t raise an eyebrow), then you might start thinking about ways to make sense of your mess.

Fortunately, a ton of utilities exist to help frazzled font enthusiasts clean out their Fonts folders and keep their fonts organized. If you’re perfectly satisfied using the fonts that came shipped with your Mac and haven’t bought any extras,

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Reason #26 Why Macs Are Better Than PCs; Fonts

PCs require you to install fonts via m Install Fonts command; tiiere is no simple drag and drop {even though there is a font directory). Probably more important, if you want to see a sample of the font, Windows still shows the classic (and boring) phrase “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Although annoyingly stereotypical (ask any dog who isn’t currently napping and it will tell you so), this arcane typing lesson cleverly uses each of the 26 letters in the English alphabet. Mac users, however, did away widi it back in 1991, with the introduction of System 7.0. Now double- clicking on a Mac font displays the insightful, “How razorback jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts!”

The phrase itself triggers the creative juices, doesn’t it?

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then you really don’t need any of these nifty util- ities— the Fonts folder will handle your fonts just fine. But if you find yourself gushing over a new favorite typeface every day, you’ve probably racked up enough fonts in your Fonts folder to warrant a little outside help. Also, you’ll enjoy the ease with which a font manager enables a font (depending on the application you’re using), without forcing you to quit all running applications. Cool.

Regardless of whether you’re using Symantec’s Suitcase, Adobe’s ATM Deluxe, or Alsoft’s Masterjuggler to manage your fonts, the following general guidelines to working with your fonts will make managing them less of a chore.

1. Organize your fonts into folders that represent how you use them.

For instance, you might keep a folder of fonts that you use exclusively for your personal letters and one for those that you use when you’re keeping things strictly business.

2. Don't force all your fonts onto your main (startup) hard drive. The beauty of font management software is that the

fonts can exist anywhere, such as on an Iomega Zip drive, a server, or another hard drive.

3. Keep as few fonts as possible open. The fewer fonts you have installed, the faster most applications will launch, and the faster the Font menu will appear. This is much easier to achieve using font management soft- ware than by dragging things in and out of the Fonts folder.

4. Starting up with extensions turned off can be problematic. Font management software exists as extensions, and not having them installed prevents font sets

fi:om being loaded. This can cause all sorts of problems, which you can avoid by using Apple’s Extensions Manager to turn off everything but your font management software. As an extra safeguard, keep essential fonts such as Chicago, Monaco, Geneva, and Symbol in your System Folder at all times.

5. Some applications get confused when fonts are opened or closed via font management software while applications are running. It’s a good idea to quit any open applications that use fonts before closing or opening different font sets.

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Suitcase 3.0 Developer: Symantec Price: $69.95 (street) Contact: 800-277-3948 ext. D132;

http://www.symantec.com Requirements: System 7.1 or later, 4MB of RAM

Suitcase 3.0 is an exten- sion that packs your fonts into neat little sets and then quickly and easily loads and unloads those sets, let- ting you change the fonts without messy dragging in the Finder. However, to take advantage of any of the following drag-and-drop shortcuts, you’ll need to be running System 7.5, or System 7.1.1 or 7.1.2 with the Macintosh drag-and- drop extension installed.

Drag fonts into an existing set to add them to that set.

Drag fonts into the window to add them to the list.

Click on the triangle to the left of the set name, so that it faces down, to see the fonts In that set.

To create an application set (one that loads specific fonts when a certain application is launched), drag the icon of the application into the Suitcase window.

Add entire sets by dragging their folders from the Finder into the main Suitcase window.

Click In the Compressed column to conpress fonts using Suitcase’s compression technology.

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Click the New Set but- ton to create a new set.

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ATM Deluxe 4.0 Developer: Adobe Systems Price: $99.95 (srp)

Contact: 800-445-8787; http://www.adobe.com Requirements: System 7.0.1 or later, SMB of RAM

By the time you read this, Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.0 — the cure for all your font management blues — should be hitting the shelves at your local Mac retail outlet. Not only does ATM Deluxe have font organization capabilities that outweigh those of Suitcase and friends, but also it offers the one thing that will revolutionize how we use fonts on-screen: anti- aliased screen fonts. This massive litde innovation (hidden away in a check- box in the Preferences dialog box) turns blocky fonts into smooth, read- able letter and character shapes. On-screen reading of anti-aliased fonts results in fewer headaches, better word recognition, and a smoother, better “feel” to your Macintosh screen.

The Sets tab displays the number of suitcases and the size of each set.

The Fonts tab displays the num- ber of fonts in each suitcase and the suitcase sizes.

The Sets window shows . a listing of each set.

Click on the pop-up menu at the top of the list on the right to toggle among different views; Known Fonts, Active Fonts, System Fonts, and Damaged Fonts.

Click on the farthest-left column to turn sets on and off. Click the triangles to ‘‘open” the sets to show which fonts are inside.

The Activate and Deactivate but- tons, respectively, turn on and ■— off each selected font or set.

The Known Fonts window shows which fonts have been enabled. Fonts can be enabled/disabied one at a time by clicking in the far-left column.

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Click on the “+” folder button to add a folder full o’ fonts to the list.

Click on the “4<” Suitcase button to add one font suit- case to the list of fonts.

MasterJuggler Pro Developer: Alsoft Price: $89.95 (srp)

Contact: 800-257-6381 Requirements: System 7.1 or later, 1MB of RAM

Masterjuggler Pro, like its counter- parts, lets you use your fonts efficiently by storing them in sets somewhere other than in your System Folder. Although it offers many of the same capabilities as its competitors, this program is unique in that it organizes font sets so that you can move and manipulate them at the Finder level. When you open fonts using Master- Juggler, you can open either an individual font family or an entire set of user-grouped fonts.

Use the Open button to find (and create) font suitcases on your system.

The Compress and Decompress buttons reduce the size of the font suitcases. Compressing drastically decreases the amount of disk space that your fonts use and is a godsend for users with limited hard disk space (as on FowerBooks).

Change the contents of an existing suit- case with Edit Set.

Suitcases that are currently in use will show up in the Available files window. The symbols next to them Indicate their status.

Click the New Set button to create a new set In which you can com- bine other suitcases or fonts.

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On a Wing and a Prayer (aka: the free way)

If you’re feeling resourceful, not to mention low on cash, you can manage your fonts using a lot of patience and a little ingenuity. First, store the fonts you aren’t using outside your Fonts folder and drag them in only when needed. When you don’t want them anymore, drag them back out. This method will help cut the amount of memory that fonts take up. It has some restric- tions, the most irritating of which is that you can’t remove fonts from the Fonts folder when an application is running. Also, currently running applications won’t display fonts that you’ve just dragged into the Fonts folder until you quit the applications and relaunch them. Remember, the Fonts folder can’t read fonts that are within other folders within the Fonts folder... each font must be loose in that folder if you want it to work.

Font Window Tips

Install fonts by dragging a font suitcase into the Fonts folder.

Suitcases contain files that contain sample text in that font.

Remove fonts by dragging a font suitcase out of the Fonts folder.

Don’t place font suitcases within other folders inside the Fonts folder.

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Do you have so many fonts you’ve forgotten what they all look like? Hey, it happens. Even the most dedicated designers can lose track of the multimegabytes of fonts they’ve got stored away. Although we can’t guarantee you’ll never forget a typeface, we’ve got five hints to help you jog your memory.

1. Double-chck the font suitcase, then open any of the fonts inside. A sample of the font will appear on-screen in varying point sizes.

2. Use font menu man^ement software, such as Adobe lype Reunion (which also organizes fonts by family) or Now Utilities WYSIWYG menus, to display fonts in the Font menu in the actual typefaces.

Suitcase 3.0 can also display menu fonts in their own faces without any additional software, although this option is not quite as flexible as WYSIWYG menus.

3 . Print out a list of your fonts for handy refer- ence. A great freeware program called the lypeBook will generate a list of your fonts in their own faces automatically (The TypeBook is also available in a more feature-rich shareware version, with a price to match.) If you’re using ATM Deluxe 4.0, it also has the ability to print out type spec pages.

4. Keep a font catalog such as ‘Tout & Function” (free from Adobe) nearby. Not only will it remind you of the fonts you already have but also inspire you to try new ones.

5. Tattoo the fonts along your forearms for maximum efficiency

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You’ve done an incredible logo for the Teenage Astronauts Association in Adobe Illustrator. You pop it into your outstanding new lAA newsletter and then send both files to your local service bureau. A few nunutes after you return to the office, the service bureau calls, telling you it’s a no-go because you used fonts that it doesn’t have. Hard to believe not everyone is using BlackLotus, Disenchant, and Tranquillity.

Tltis scenario is all too famffiar to Mac users. Although it is technically illegal to give

your fonts to someone else (without first eras- ing them from your system), what other choice do you have? A couple, as it turns out.

Print to a PostScript File.

All Macintosh applications have the capabil- ity to create a PostScript file on your hard disk. In the Print dialog box, click the Destination box

and then choose the File option. This creates a file that contains all the fonts in your document. The downfall to this procedure is that it makes the file almost uneditable unless you...

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Create an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

A PDF (Portable Document Format) file can be created from within any application (provided you have the Acrobat software) and can be read by anyone who has the Acrobat Reader software (free from Adobe). Acrobat files have become the standard in cross-platform document

exchange for several reasons, not the least of which is excellent font handling ability. When creating a PDF file with Acrobat, you choose to include fonts or not. If you don’t include fonts, Acrobat uses special substitute fonts that look a little different but always take up the same space when printing.

Five Most Unwanted Font Problems

Chances are good that if you work with a wide variety of fonts, you’ll experience at least one, if not all, of the following font-related disasters. Before you go dissing Adobe or bad- mouthing Bitstream, you should realize that most of these problems aren’t as terrible as they may seem at first. Read on for the solutions to your most worrisome font woes.

1. Corrupted Fonts. This dreaded occur- rence is fairly common, though many Mac users will claim they’ve never had a font problem. That’s because it’s often hard to blame any prob- lem on a font. Weird crashes? Bizarro behavior? Most Mac users try to rebuild the desktop, using the Disk Doctor feature from Symantec’s Norton Utilities on their drives, or even reinstall the System software, but few ever think of removing their fonts. To make matters worse, if you can actually pin your problems on your fonts, how do you figure out which one is the bad seed?

You can usually place blame on either the screen font portion of PostScript fonts or the entire suitcase of a particular typeface for TrueType fonts. To narrow your search to the exact font that’s causing you grief, you can use Masterjuggler Pro’s Font Guardian or ATM Deluxe 4.0’s Verify Fonts function. If you’re not using either of these utilities, you’ll simply have to add fonts one at a time until the problem resur- faces; the last font you add before the problems start up again is probably your corrupted font. Delete it and reinstall it from the original disk.

2. Installed Fonts Aren't in the Font Menu. Ooh, this is irritating. You pop a font into your Fonts folder, or install it via Suitcase or ATM Deluxe, but when you check the Font menu in QuarkXPress, the font isn’t there! Grrrr. This is usually easier to fix than you’d think. A cute little dialog box appears when you drag fonts into the Fonts folder that says something like, “Fonts will not appear in open applications until that apphcation is quit,” which you’ve undoubt- edly ignored in your rush to install the font you needed. The fix? Quit any programs that were running and launch them again. The missing fonts will appear right where you need them.

3. The Fonts Still Aren't in the Font Menu! This is usually a problem with PostScript fonts. Because they come in two parts (screen and printer fonts), it’s easy for them to separate. If the screen font wasn’t installed, the printer font does you no good, and the fonts won’t show up in the Font menu. Install the screen fonts by dragging them into the Fonts folder with no applications running and fonts will appear where they belong.

4. Font Printout (or Display) Is All Jagged and Icky. This usually happens with PostScript fonts, as the screen and printer fonts somehow become separated. The screen fonts are installed (thus giving you the ability to select the fonts in the Font menu), but the printer fonts are not. Without printer fonts, your high-end Agfa

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Here’s how to make a PDF file.

1 . Select Acrobat PDF Writer in the Chooser.

2. From within your fevorite applica- tion, choose the Print option (usually command-P).

3. Click the Print button in the Print dialog box.

4. Name the PDF file and click the Save button.

That’s all there is to it! Give your PDF file to anyone with Acrobat Reader and €ey can print the document, whether or not they have your fonts.

imagesetter (the one that cost more than your first house), which tops off at 3,600 dpi, is print- ing the 72-dpi screen fonts, stretching the built-in ones to the desired point size. For on- screen problems, ATM isn’t finding the printer font, eiAer. The fix: Just drop the printer font into your Fonts folder — it will put itself there automatically if you drag your fonts on top of the System Folder.

5. Slight Irregularities Occur When Someone Else Prints Your Document.

“Gee, Ralph, the serifs look too thin on your printouts. And that lowercase “j” doesn’t extend far enough below the baseline.” Ralph slugs you for being a font nerd. Abnormalities happen, and you have a right to be concerned about them. This is one of the better scenarios (experiencing

abnormalities, not get- ting slugged), consider- ing that so many manu- facturers make what they call the “same” fonts. Other problems include document errors stating that fonts are missing, or finding a big, nasty, white area where you had laid out an essay entitled “The Whitewater Feline Conspiracy: Why Clinton will Pardon Socks.”

To keep these problems from arising, ensure that your service bureau and anyone else who prints your fonts are using the same fonts from the same manufacturer as you are. Usually the icons for PostScript printer fonts give a clue as to the manufacturer of the font. The best way to check is to do a Get Info (command-I) on the suspect fonts. □

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More expressive than a mood ring, the font you choose to dress your words often says more than the words themselves. Fonts can smile, shiver, scream, or whis- per. They can be chatty. They can be reserved.

They can be whatever you want them to be, espe- cially if you design them yourself. Although professional type designers can spend years tweaking a typeface, you can whip up your own in slightly less time if you’re willing to live with a few imperfections. All you need to put your thoughts into letters is a little creativity, a lot of patience, and Macromedia’s font design software, Fontographer.

There are several ways to create a typeface. One is to import a font that you know and love, such as Garamond (the font that Apple uses), into Fontographer and then stretch it, squash it, twist it, and turn it until it looks kind of like Garamond but not. This is fine for

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strictly personal uses, but selling font rip-offs as your own design is illegal and unethical.

You can also create a font from scratch, or almost scratch. The first and most time- consuming step is to draw each and every letter, number, and symbol of the alphabet. Although you can do this in Fontographer, you can also use a drawing program, such as Macromedia’s FreeHand or Adobe Illustrator, if you’re more comfortable with its tools. Once you’ve perfected your characters, import them into Fontographer to turn your drawings into a usable font.

Rather than start fi'om scratch, we took inspiration from our environment and imported the characters from a garage sale sign. Although it’s fine to get ideas fi:om handwritten samples like this, remember that you will have to recreate the same look for all of the other characters of the alphabet that aren’t in the sample. Tricky business, but if you’re up for it, here’s what you need to know.

Fontographer Demystified

Fontographer is currently the most popular program available for font creation, so if you’re going to design with the big boys,

The Layers palette is available only while you’re In the Outline window. All layers with an "x” are shown in the window, but only the highlighted layers are active.

Outline Layer - The Outline layer is where you’ll create and edit your font. Go ahead and tweak those Bezier curves just as you would In any drawing program.

Template Layer - This is your tracing pad.

Guides Layer - Here you can drag lines from the origin line and baseline to create markers that will help you keep your characters at roughly similar heights and widths.

Hints Layer - Designers use this layer to add the complex details that make a font look good at small sizes and low resolutions.

Basepoint - The basepoint is usu- ally where the baseline meets the origin line, at the character’s origin (0,0). However, you can change the position of the basepoint to help you measure other character parts.

you’ll heed to familiarize yourself with its features. Here’s a quick guide to what does what.

^ Font Window - This is where you’ll find each character of your font on display in a 24-polnt bitmap format, the default. Whenever you cre- ate a new font or open an old one, you’ll see this window. You can view your font in 12 different modes, but for most purposes, you’ll stick with the character view.

Position Indicators - These teil you how far away your cursor is from the basepoint.

Origin Line - The origin line, or left sidebearing, marks the left side of your character’s space. Where you place your character in relation to this line will determine the spacing on the character’s (eft side.

Outline Window - The Outline window (which you open from the Windows menu) acts as an editing room. You’ll do most of your font fine-tuning here.

Baseline - The baseline is the line on which all of the characters sit. It is always at a vertical location of zero.

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start building your font by following these simple directions. (If you hand-draw your font in a drawing pro- gram, you can skip this step and import your drawings direct- ly into Fontographer.) Scan your art into Adobe Photoshop and clean up any ink spots, fuzzy lines, or white spots. Be sure to scan your font at 1 Vfe inches or larger (you can enlarge It first with a photocopier); your letters will be easier to trace and tweak. Save each character individually as a PICT file and copy each directly into Fontographer.

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Fire up Fontographer and choose New Font from the File menu. Click the character slot In the Font window where you want to copy

a character, then open the Outline window from the Windows menu, and paste in your scanned image. Do this for each character of your font.

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You should already be working in the Font window, so you can just double-click the character slot of the character you want to trace to open up its Outline window. Make sure that you’re working in the Outline layer of the Layers palette and then trace your character by choosing Auto Trace from the Element menu. Choose Easy and stick with the default value of 5 that

MOVE xm SLIDE CONTROL for a tighter or looser trace.

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Select Font Info from the Element menu; type in a name for your font; give it a style, such as bold, normal, or italic; and then save your font. (This will apply to every character in the Font window so that you have to name your font only once.) Make sure you don’t give the font the same name as any other font in your Fonts folder. If you name a font Times Roman, for example, you’ll override your original Times Roman font. Always name and save your font before you generate your font files and bitmaps (Step 8), or you’ll end up with strange names that are unusable and you’ll be forced to start over.

After you’ve traced your character, use the scale tool on the tools palette In the Outline window to grow your capital let- ters up to the top of the box. Do this by select- ing the scale tool and then clicking on the baseline to create an anchor point. Hold down Shift and drag your font until It reaches the top of the box, then double-click to release. Design your lowercase letters to top out at half this height. Not only will your letters be easier to adjust at this larger size, but you’ll find it easier to keep all of the characters in your font roughly the same size.

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Font metrics basically determine how fonts are spaced and kerned. (Spacing is setting the width between characters, and kerning is adjusting the width so that certain pairs of let- ters look better side by side.) Perfectionists may choose to set their metrics on a character-by-character basis for maxi-

mum tweaking, but most people will probably just take the easy way and set the spacing for the entire font all at once. Because spacing is the hardest part of font creation, new- comers should use the Auto Space and Auto Kern features to save a few years’ worth of time.


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Spacing. Open the Metrics window from the Windows menu. Choose Auto Space from the Metrics menu and use Easy; this will set the spac- ing for your entire font. Type sample characters In the Text box of the Metrics window so that you can see how the characters are affected by your spacing decisions, then adjust the spacing value until the charac- ters look good to you. If nothing looks good to you and you want to space your characters individually, select the Advanced mode and fill in the blanks, hotshot.

Kerning. Remain in the Metrics window and select Auto Kern. Again, choose Easy mode. Either set the amount of kerning pairs you want your font to have, or select an upper limit amount; 500 pairs is usually sufficient. Experiment with your kerning until you come up with a value that looks good to you. Again, the Advanced mode is available for those who want to individually kern all of their kerned pairs.

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Install your new font directly into your Fonts folder or font manage- ment software. The font you’ve created is real and needs to be installed before you can use it. Now that you know how to create and install your own font, you can use Fontographer for a slew of fun projects. Scan your signature and assign it to a keystroke to add a personal touch to letters. Create your own logos. Or draw out and scan your own symbols into Fontographer to create a picture- based font the same way you would with regular type. Take a look at one of our symbol samples.

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usable font Select Generate Font Files from the File menu and choose the Easy mode— the Advanced mode Is comprehensible only to ‘Jeopardy” winners and professional font designers (it gives control over Encoding vectors, which are something most people should not be changing without good cause). Choose Macintosh as the computer for which you are preparing the font, and pick a font format. TrueType fonts don’t require you to set your bitmap sizes, but PostScript fonts do, unless you’re using Adobe Type Manager. Fontographer automatically generates a 24-point bitmap, so if you’re using ATM, you need to generate only this size: Otherwise, pick bitmap sizes that you’ll use frequently, such as 8,12, 14, and possibly 19 if you’ll be writing really big headlines. Finally, set the folder where you want to keep your fonts. This global process affects each character of your font, so you have to do it only once.

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Ah, the American road. The sun beating down through the bug-encrusted windshield. The engine humming as it churns dead dinosaurs into loco-motion. Reflexes jacked to a keen knife edge through massive doses of black diner coffee. There’s nothing like it. And where would the perfect road trip be without photos? It was probably the road trip that inspired ol’ Mr. Kodak when he brought out his famous Brownies and put photography (for good or bad) into the hands of your grandma.

It’s good to know that the drive to record a drive persists well into the digi- tal age. Due in part to the World Wide Web’s hunger for images of everything and everyone, several companies are reaching for a piece of the growing digital point-and-shoot market. Compared with some of the first digital camera offerings, the newer cameras produce decent images with little fiiss. The digital family vacation album may soon be the party killer of the not-too-distant future.

Armed with some rockin’ tapes and my trusty lab assistant, Gary, I hit Highway 101, subjecting four popular digital cam- era models — ^Apple’s QuickTake 150 (an improvement on the revolutionary QuickTake 100), Casio’s QV-lOA (with its neato, keeno LCD viewfinder), Epson’s PhotoPC (which looks most like the tra- ditional point-and-shoots that we know and love), and the ergonomically pleas- ing Olympus D-200L — to a strenuous and well-caffeinated run behind Northern California’s Redwood Curtain. The photos we took were saved as TIFF images and printed without any manipulation.

All four cameras can capture a 24-bit high-resolution image of 640 x 480 pix- els. However, here comes bummer No. 1 from the Casio camp: The QV-lOA records image information at 480 x 240

pixels and interpolates the image to the higher resolution. (The company makes other digital cameras with 640 x 480 res- olution.) This means the camera looks at neighboring pixels and creates extra pix- els through logarithmic calculation, resulting in an image with extra data but no extra information. Although low-reso- lution images look like cubist paintings, they are smaller, which leaves room for more images. The QV-lOA can store up to 96 images before it runs out of memory. The QuickTake can store 32 low-quality images or l6 high-quality im^es, the D-200L can store up to 80 low-resolution or 20 high-resolution im^es, and the PhotoPC can store either 32 low-resolu- tion or 16 high-resolution images (an optional memory module is available that can boost the Epson’s storage up to 80 high-resolution or 160 low-resolution images.) The storage advantages of low resolution must be weighed gainst how the images are going to be used.

Batteries in all four cameras should be good for at least 100 shots, so that’s not much of a worry. A word to the wise — the LCDs in the Casio, and the D- 200L bum up a lot of power. The D-200L especially seemed to be a juice hog going through a set of batteries after shooting just 20 pictures.

• Spice up your e-mail. Granted, the internet allows for a certain measure of anonymity, but why languish in obscurity when you can clone your head onto Brad Pitt’s manly man torso and... on second thought, that’s pretty pathetic. Attach snapshots of yourself smiling and the world smiles with you.

• Fool your friends! Drop a few photos of your closest pals into your favorite layout program and in no time: faux “wanted" posters. Put up a few around the ol’ post office, stand back and watch hilarity ensue. Note: check your local and federal statutes.

• Create an on-line vacation photo album. Take your very own road trip. Pack up the family truckster, dump off the kids and/or animals and get yer motor runnin’. If you have a laptop and a modem, you can see the sights by day and post them on your server by night. For a great example, check out Stephen R. Banks’s trip to Disney World at http://www.neosoft.com/sbanks/ vacation/vacation . html .

• Become a ’zinester/’zinestress. Tired of slick maga- zines full of nothing but pouty underfed perfume mod- els? Make your own magazine. Document your scene and maybe some day busloads of tourists will cruise the very streets you used to walk before you got filthy rich and moved next door to Mick dagger.

• Catalog your stuff! I know it doesn’t sound glam- orous, but since you’re not paying for film processing, you can’t afford not to document all your high-tech and low-fi gadgets for when the unthinkable occurs. Don’t forget to put your image disks in a safe place. (Zen tip: contemplate how to take a photo of your digital camera and reach nirvana within hours!)

For fans of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” vibe, ntight I suggest a tour through Humboldt County’s mega-wooded Avenue of the Giants.

Driving into the old logging town of Redcrest is like driving onto Lynch’s set if he were filming “The Hobbit.” A must- see for any wayward traveler is the living tree house, a roomy little crash pad hacked out of a redwood tree by a very determined logger. A word to the photo- wise: The lighting on the Avenue of Giants is pretty dark and shadowy because of... well, because of all those giants. To deal with this, both the QuickTake and the PhotoPC have three flash modes: automatic, forced, and off. Automatic means that the camera decides if a flash is needed; forced means that the flash will go off when you snap the photo, regardless of the lighting conditions. The Olympus D-200L has a fourth flash mode designed to deal with red eye. In this mode, the camera emits a series of low- power flashes before popping the big

APPLE: THE QUICKTAKE ISO’S forced flash brought out some of the detail in the shadows around the treehouse entrance and helped fill in the image.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC’S fill flash helped bring out the detail in the darker areas around the tree, and the camera showed good color balance and nice detail.

CASIO: WHILE THE QV-10A was able to do a good job with the subject standing in the photo, the shadows were all but black without the benefit of a secondary light source.

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flash. These pre-flashes make the subject’s pupils contract, so the eyes don’t reflect as much of the bright light. Although the QV-lOA doesn’t have a flash, it does give you the option of choosing between an aperture setting of F8 (a small-iris setting useful for brighter light) or F2.8 (a large- iris setting useful for darker areas). The other three cameras do not allow you to choose an aperture, which may be good or bad depending on your camera knowl- edge and how much thought you want to put into it. To help you out, the QV-lOA will tell you when Ae shot will result in an over- or underexposed image.

Shooting in heavy shade on an over- cast morning against a dark background of redwood trees, I used the forced flash to try to bring out some of the textured

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Digital cameras capture image information in much the same way a digital scanner does. Light, whether reflected (in the case of a flatbed scanner) or directed through a camera lens, travels through red, green, and blue color fil- ters, striking light-sensitive elements, collectively called a charge-coupled device (CCD). On flatbed scanners and high-resolution studio cameras, the CCD contains a single row of elements and slowly travels the image area record- ing information line by line. Anyone who has tried to will a flatbed to scan faster can see the inherent problem in shooting a football game with a high-res digital device. Cameras that shoot in “real time” must expose an entire grid of photo elements at once to capture the image immediately. Because less information is being collected, this method produces lower-resolution images. Once the image information is collected, the camera converts the CCD’s electrical charges into digital information ,or pixels.

OuT of Your Pixels

Photoshop (or some other Image-retouching software tool) can be invaluable in helping you make your images come alive. Each digital image is made up of colored dots called pixels. Think of the pixels in your raw image as your paycheck after you cash it. Some pixels are $20s. Some pixels are $5s. You start out with a certain amount of cash when you get off work, and everything that happens to you afterward is going to change that The Idea here Is to get Into a real good head space by Saturday night and still have money left to pay the rent. Every tweak that you sub- ject your photo to is going to affect your cash flow until you’re left flat with a pocket full of $1 bills.

Fortunately, you can often bring your photo into line with a modicum of spending. Some tips on how to get the best out of your pixels in Photoshop follow.

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background — il left on automatic, the camera might have thought there was enough light and that a flash wasn’t needed. The QuickTake and the PhotoPC both produced good msages, but shadows in the QV-lOA image were all but black. (We were unable to test the Olympus at this site due to scheduling problems.)

As we tooled on past the towering redwoods, I got to thinking how this cen- tury will probably be known as the last golden ^e of the road trip. From a soci- ety that didn’t venture too far from the homestead to the car-crazy ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, and now back again as more people are taking the info autobahn offramp to leisure, a lot of cool Americana may be left high and dry. I’m talking about the last true vestige of the roadside entrepreneurial spirit: the drive-through tree. As more and more people poured onto North Coast high- ways, a strange phenomenon manifested itself. Perhaps it was some Freudian thing. All these towering giants can make an otherwise well-adjusted motorist feel a little insignificant. The drive-through tree was bom out of the public’s need to feel more important.

The stretch of 101 between Leggitt and Klamath boasts a plethora of these automotive oddities. Taking drive- through tree photos found us shooting from an area of bright overhead light against a dark background. This brought out the QV-lOA’s bummer No. 2: The camera does not have a camera-style optical view finder.

Seeing your photos on the LCD while they’re still in the camera is really cool — when you can see them, which is not the case in bright sunlight (although the LCD can be seen under less intense lighting conditions) . Before I learned not to try to get the LCD image to look good before I took the shot, I blew out a lot of images using the manual exposure adjustment.

The D-200L also has an LCD display build into the camera; however, it also has a standard fixed viewfinder. The LCD was designed mainly to view photos after the fact, which is a nice feature, consid- ering the storage capacity of the camera. With a preview feature available in the field, you don’t end up carrying around bad shots at the expense of other shots you could be taking. The Olympus per- formed the best here, providing images with sharp edges, nice detail, and good color, with the Epson coming in a close second. The QuickTake did OK, but its images were a bit fuzzy.

APPLE: THE QUICKTAKE 150’s image caught nice tree bark details.

CASIO: THE QV-IOA’s interpolated Images hurt the scene’s finer lines.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC handled both foreground and background detail well. OLYMPUS: THE D-200L also showed off Its ability to capture a sharp image with good color balance.

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Another anomaly of the great northern highway is the ever- present burl store. Every cousin with a patch of ground along the side of the road from Orick to the California-Oregon border has his own shop, stand, or pile of burl. Any object you can possibly think of can be found here, carved out of the knobby wood, usually with a chainsaw.

Here we tried to show how the cameras captured a still-life scene with varied textures, colors, shadow, and highlight detail. Some of the texture detail in the QuickTake’s redder tones appears mottled. A look at the color channels in Adobe Photoshop shows more noise in the blue channel of this photo than of the other two photos. The QV-lOA photo shot at F8 shows the best contrast yet isn’t as sharp as the others. The PhotoPC and the D-200L came pretty close with good combinations of color balance and sharpness.

APPLE: ALTHOUGH SALVAGEABLE in an image-editing program, the QuickTake 150’s image was overly dark.

CASIO: THE QV-10A had the best contrast but didn’t hold as much detail as the other cameras.

OLYMPUS: THE D-200L, like the PhotoPC, did a good job with color and detail but didn’t produce the best contrast.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC CAUGHT images that were lighter than the QuickTake’s, and it came away with good color and detail as well.

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One of the best ways to improve a digital photo is to get the tonal range right. To do that, avoid Photoshop’s Brightness/Contrast controls. Why kill a bug with a truck when a hammer will do? These linear controls affect your tonal range by stretching or limiting your overall range of color values, resulting in less opportunity for detail.

Instead, choose the eyedropper tool in the Toolbox and then go Into the Cun/es menu. (If you don’t choose the eyedropper tool first, you won’t be able to use it for adjustments.)

Use the nonlinear Curves dialog box to adjust your color tones by selecting Adjust-Curves from the Image menu (or just hit command- M). Often, the only thing you need to do to spruce up that snapshot Is to set a highlight and shadow point. This process gives you the best tonal range for your photo and can correct some color problems.

To set your highlight values, click on the lightest point in your image. Especially nice are items that you know are supposed to be white, In this case the white strip In the flag. The same goes for setting your shadow point.

SELECT THE EYEDROPPER tool beforo going to the Curves dialog box.

ONCE YOU HAVE the eyedropper and you open the Curves dialog box, you can set your highlight value by clicking on the lightest point In the Image, preferably something white.

SETTING THE shadow point Is much the same, only you should select the darkest part of the Image with the eyedropper.

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in shooting faraway objects in direct sunlight. A forced flash helped alleviate the greenish cast to the photo and bring out the “skin” tones in Paul Bunyan in the QuickTake, D-200L, and PhotoPC shots. The QV-lOA shot suffered from not having a secondary light source (there was no way to fill in shadowy areas, so they sim- ply turned black), and again the LCD was hard to see in the sunlight.

are old and fragile.” The QV-lOA was able to pick up the ambient light in the room at F2.8, and the D-200L automatically opened .up to capture decent images, whereas the other two cameras could not read the room without a flash. Upon closer inspection, the Native American mannequins seemed to be made of some kind of hide. We got the hell out of there.

APPLE: THE QUICKTAKE 150 came away with decent images, considering the color cast that fluorescent lights can add.

CASIO: THE QV-lOA did well up close, showing good contrast and color under adverse lighting.

OLYMPUS: THE D-200L handled detail quite well, as shown in the bars. The color, however, did suffer a little.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC created an Image with good detail and lighting (just a fraction lighter than the QuickTake).

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Use that eyedropper tool that you thoughtfully picked up before getting this far and take a reading off of some- thing in the photo by clicking the eyedropper in the neutral area~a white shirt, a gray sidewalk, Switzerland. Check out the numbers in your RGB color picker (available In the Window menu under Palettes-Show Picker). If the values of red, green, and blue aren’t almost equal, you have a color cast. The sliders in the picker should give you a good idea of what channel needs to be altered. Go to that channel in Curves and hit your neutral spot again. This will show you at what point on the curve you should start to tweak.

Until you develop a feel- ing for how tweaking the different color channels will affect the others, the Variations dialog box ( I m ag e- Ad j u st- Variations) gives you an array of thumbnails showing what adding or subtracting each color will do.

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After fortifying ourselves with more coffee, we set out for the Mecca of roadside cheese. Perched alongside 101 between Klamath and Crescent City sits the amazing, colos- sal Trees of Mystery. I have to admit that although I’ve been there many times, I’ve never actually paid to see the so-called mysterious trees. For me, the big thrill is the giant Paul Bunyan and his humungous blue ox. What these two are doing so far from Brainerd, Minnesota, is beside the point. All four cameras performed well

At the end of every good American road trip lies a ^ shop. Despite the manual’s warnings against shooting under fluorescent lights, all four cameras performed well. The QV-lOA and the D-200L come with a macro feature that allows for detail close up. The QuickTake comes with a “snap-on” lens (read: “lost” on any road trip). The PhotoPC has a threaded inner ring above the lens where you can screw on 37mm video camera lenses if you want to get up close and personal. You’ll have to buy, beg, or borrow a lens to take advantage of close-up shots for the PhotoPC.

Both the D-200L and the QV-10 pulled ahead of the other two cameras inside the End of the Trail museum, where there sits a pair of the strangest mannequins I have ever seen. They look like a leathery old Native American couple with a sign that reads, “Please, no flash photography, we

APPLE: THE QUICKTAKE ISO produced reasonable “skin” tones with a flash.

CASIO: WITHOUT A FLASH, the QV-lOA couldn’t quite handle shadow areas.

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OLYMPtUg THE 0-200L turned out a nice, If dark, Image.

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The End of the Trail was most definitely the end of the road. Two of the cameras come with a handy-dandy program to ease image downloading onto the Mac. The QuickTake comes bundled with Storm Software’s PhotoFlash, a pretty intuitive little program that allows you to do some basic image manipulation and color correction.

Offloading the images is as easy as opening PhotoFlash, loading thumbnails of the images in the camera, and click- ing on the photos you want on your hard drive. Each photo took about a minute to download from the camera onto the Mac. Photos can be saved by subject into an on-screen catalog, which looks like a color contact sheet. PhotoFlash supports scripting for placing the images directly into most page layout programs and allows im^es to be saved in PICT, TIFF, JPEG, or EPS format, which ensures they will fit just about anywhere.

The PhotoPC comes with its own imaging software, called EasyPhoto. Like PhotoFlash, EasyPhoto has an option of bundling like-minded photos together in groups, called Galleries. Someone at Epson thought it would be really cool to make the galleries look like a strip of film, which pre-empts seeing thumbnails of all of the images at once. The program does have an inter- esting feature that will create galleries for you by finding similar shots or similar words or phrases in the photo titles. However, I found that the similar shots were usually right next to each other in the gallery in which I originally downloaded them, and the program often still couldn’t find them.

Again, like PhotoFlash, the real keen feature of EasyPhoto is its Photo- shopesque Workshop. Both programs allow for simple cropping and color, brightness, and contrast adjustment without the mega-drive space and wallet impact of true Photoshop. Unlike PhotoFlash, EasyPhoto supports only two file types. You can save photos as either JPEG (default) or PICT.

The QV-lOA came to the party carry- ing only a Photoshop plug-in and a very simple camera-to-Mac application that doesn’t allow for tweaking images. The QV-MAC program will create photo

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