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	<title>Comments on: New app: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator</title>
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		<title>By: Peter Hosey</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-196722</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hosey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 08:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ssp: You're right. I just tried the Linotype website and, sure enough, Univers does have the same slanted t as Arial. Wow.

When I'm back on my main machine in a week, I'll correct the webpage. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ssp: You're right. I just tried the Linotype website and, sure enough, Univers does have the same slanted t as Arial. Wow.</p>
<p>When I'm back on my main machine in a week, I'll correct the webpage. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: ssp</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-196719</link>
		<dc:creator>ssp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 07:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Two points (previously destroyed by your clever spam protection, I guess…):

1. With old PostScript font names, you may be looking for slightly crippled file names – 'UnivCondIta' or whatnot.

2. Taking another look at the graphic you posted suggests that the font is _not_ Univers – which has an angled top of the t as well as a slightly less round look. Instead I'd guess that font replacement just uses a (fake) narrow Helvetica there. And, indeed feeding your app with easily recognisable Helvetica chars (G, R) confirms that guess.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two points (previously destroyed by your clever spam protection, I guess…):</p>
<p>1. With old PostScript font names, you may be looking for slightly crippled file names – 'UnivCondIta' or whatnot.</p>
<p>2. Taking another look at the graphic you posted suggests that the font is _not_ Univers – which has an angled top of the t as well as a slightly less round look. Instead I'd guess that font replacement just uses a (fake) narrow Helvetica there. And, indeed feeding your app with easily recognisable Helvetica chars (G, R) confirms that guess.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Hosey</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-194021</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hosey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also, I can't use the font in applications, such as TextEdit (or the Generator—the form for the labels is in Arial Narrow, even when the output is in Univers). I can only use it in a PostScript program.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also, I can't use the font in applications, such as TextEdit (or the Generator—the form for the labels is in Arial Narrow, even when the output is in Univers). I can only use it in a PostScript program.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Hosey</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-194015</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hosey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I'm on Tiger, and I'm quite sure. Like I said, &lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href="x-man-page://1/locate" rel="nofollow"&gt;locate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt; doesn't find it, and &lt;tt&gt;locate&lt;/tt&gt; searches &lt;em&gt;everywhere&lt;/em&gt; (including /System, /Library, and &lt;tt&gt;$HOME&lt;/tt&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The command line I tried: &lt;kbd&gt;locate Univers &#124; grep -vF Universal&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm on Tiger, and I'm quite sure. Like I said, <tt><a href="x-man-page://1/locate" rel="nofollow">locate</a></tt> doesn't find it, and <tt>locate</tt> searches <em>everywhere</em> (including /System, /Library, and <tt>$HOME</tt>).</p>
<p>The command line I tried: <kbd>locate Univers | grep -vF Universal</kbd>.</p>
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		<title>By: ssp</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-194003</link>
		<dc:creator>ssp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I'm not sure our printer can print without margins. Perhaps I'll investigate printing it anyway and just cutting along the shape of the original plastic thingy…

Are you sure you don't have a copy of Univers sitting _somewhere_ (X.5 is rather good at finding fonts in remote locations and using them). I can't reproduce the behaviour here.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm not sure our printer can print without margins. Perhaps I'll investigate printing it anyway and just cutting along the shape of the original plastic thingy…</p>
<p>Are you sure you don't have a copy of Univers sitting _somewhere_ (X.5 is rather good at finding fonts in remote locations and using them). I can't reproduce the behaviour here.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Hosey</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-193885</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hosey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 02:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jesper: Thanks. Fixed in 1.0.1, which is now up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesper: Thanks. Fixed in 1.0.1, which is now up.</p>
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		<title>By: Jesper</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-193772</link>
		<dc:creator>Jesper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"NewApplication Help".</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"NewApplication Help".</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Hosey</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-193704</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hosey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I don't have a ruler in the office, but what's the chance of fitting the printout (diagonally?) on a sheet of A3? Would reduce the possibility of 'Fail'.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I just tried it in Lineform. It fits diagonally, but just barely. You'll need a printer capable of borderless printing, as well as a vector editor (such as Lineform or VectorDesigner) in which to stitch two copies of the PDF output together and rotate the result. As an example, here's the &lt;a href="/stuph/AEK2-MacOSX-A3.pdf" rel="nofollow"&gt;A3 PDF of the Mac OS X overlay&lt;/a&gt; that I made in Lineform.

&lt;blockquote&gt;BTW, what kind of printer are you using? I think some HP models have Univers built-in.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

It's a Samsung. It doesn't matter, though: it even works if I simply save the EPS or PDF file and open it in Preview, without ever sending it to the printer.

That's how I took the two screenshots of the word “eject” that you can see on the webpage: I made an EPS file of it, then used pstopdf to convert it to PDF, then used &lt;a href="/image" rel="nofollow"&gt;image&lt;/a&gt; to scale by 400% and convert to PNG. &lt;a href="/stuph/UniversTest.eps.bz2" rel="nofollow"&gt;Here's the EPS file&lt;/a&gt; in case you want to try it for yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote cite="http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-"><p>I don't have a ruler in the office, but what's the chance of fitting the printout (diagonally?) on a sheet of A3? Would reduce the possibility of 'Fail'.</p>
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<p>I just tried it in Lineform. It fits diagonally, but just barely. You'll need a printer capable of borderless printing, as well as a vector editor (such as Lineform or VectorDesigner) in which to stitch two copies of the PDF output together and rotate the result. As an example, here's the <a href="/stuph/AEK2-MacOSX-A3.pdf" rel="nofollow">A3 PDF of the Mac OS X overlay</a> that I made in Lineform.</p>
<blockquote cite="http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-"><p>BTW, what kind of printer are you using? I think some HP models have Univers built-in.</p>
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<p>It's a Samsung. It doesn't matter, though: it even works if I simply save the EPS or PDF file and open it in Preview, without ever sending it to the printer.</p>
<p>That's how I took the two screenshots of the word “eject” that you can see on the webpage: I made an EPS file of it, then used pstopdf to convert it to PDF, then used <a href="/image" rel="nofollow">image</a> to scale by 400% and convert to PNG. <a href="/stuph/UniversTest.eps.bz2" rel="nofollow">Here's the EPS file</a> in case you want to try it for yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: ssp</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-193669</link>
		<dc:creator>ssp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 09:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BTW, what kind of printer are you using? I think some HP models have Univers built-in. (At least some TeX Readmes back from 1994 mention that they now provide metrics for the Univers in LaserJet 4 printers…)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW, what kind of printer are you using? I think some HP models have Univers built-in. (At least some TeX Readmes back from 1994 mention that they now provide metrics for the Univers in LaserJet 4 printers…)</p>
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		<title>By: ssp</title>
		<link>http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-05-06/aek2-overlay-generator#comment-193666</link>
		<dc:creator>ssp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 09:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fantastic idea. I don't have a ruler in the office, but what's the chance of fitting the printout (diagonally?) on a sheet of A3? Would reduce the possibility of 'Fail'.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fantastic idea. I don't have a ruler in the office, but what's the chance of fitting the printout (diagonally?) on a sheet of A3? Would reduce the possibility of 'Fail'.</p>
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