Congrats,
That was my first Mac! :beige: I was waiting for the arrival of my (vertical market) MacSignmaker system to arrive. It came with an SE W/20 mb HDD and A RADIUS 16 Accelerator (mostly bundled for the math co-pro, but the doubled clockspeed was no small thing either!) and was looking for a used ImageBanger Wide Carriage so I could run 15" plotter paper (legal size w/o the tearoff perforations that was used on Gerber's SignMaker III & Sprint models) through the ImageBanger Wide Carriage, scanning them in with the infamous ThunderScan unit that replaced any ImageWriter's Ink Ribbon Cartridge.
Anyways, I was able to digitize ThunderScanned logos and artwork in Fontographer and then AutoMagically convert the files to the proprietary MacSignmaker format using their Font Conversion utility. Fontographer's Type 3 Fonts were converted to MacSignMaker fonts at 5 outlines per character. That'd be four for the postscript outlines in the artwork and one for a bounding box needed to get each "character" aligned in the MacSignMaker edit window.
Anyhoo, by building complex artwork in Fontographer, doing a lot of cut & pasting, converting the font format, and then doing a lot of repetitive typing and bounding box deletions, I got COMPLEX PostScript graphics output to vinyl cut graphics over a year before anyone else in NYC could even TOUCH PostScript files!
That was VERY lucrative back in the day!
And I could do all the digitizing & scanning at home on the FatMac after having dinner w/the family!
Someday I/ll look up and post the specs on the awsome NewLife Accelerator I installed in FatMac. That made it way cooler than a stock Mac 512ke!
whatever . . . enough of this old coot's ramblings,
jt :
That was my first Mac! :beige: I was waiting for the arrival of my (vertical market) MacSignmaker system to arrive. It came with an SE W/20 mb HDD and A RADIUS 16 Accelerator (mostly bundled for the math co-pro, but the doubled clockspeed was no small thing either!) and was looking for a used ImageBanger Wide Carriage so I could run 15" plotter paper (legal size w/o the tearoff perforations that was used on Gerber's SignMaker III & Sprint models) through the ImageBanger Wide Carriage, scanning them in with the infamous ThunderScan unit that replaced any ImageWriter's Ink Ribbon Cartridge.
Anyways, I was able to digitize ThunderScanned logos and artwork in Fontographer and then AutoMagically convert the files to the proprietary MacSignmaker format using their Font Conversion utility. Fontographer's Type 3 Fonts were converted to MacSignMaker fonts at 5 outlines per character. That'd be four for the postscript outlines in the artwork and one for a bounding box needed to get each "character" aligned in the MacSignMaker edit window.
Anyhoo, by building complex artwork in Fontographer, doing a lot of cut & pasting, converting the font format, and then doing a lot of repetitive typing and bounding box deletions, I got COMPLEX PostScript graphics output to vinyl cut graphics over a year before anyone else in NYC could even TOUCH PostScript files!
That was VERY lucrative back in the day!
And I could do all the digitizing & scanning at home on the FatMac after having dinner w/the family!
Someday I/ll look up and post the specs on the awsome NewLife Accelerator I installed in FatMac. That made it way cooler than a stock Mac 512ke!
whatever . . . enough of this old coot's ramblings,
jt :