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Are You Ready To Move To
Unicode-Encoded Greek Fonts? Now You Can Easily Convert Your ASCII-Encoded
LaserGreek Files To Our Unicode-Encoded LaserGreek In Unicode Fonts With The
LaserGreek Converter.
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for Macintosh |
What others are
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LaserGreek Converter is a unique product
allowing you to convert Greek text between several font encodings and
arrangements. There are five ways the LaserGreek Converter will help you.
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The Converter will allow you to
convert text typed with Linguist's Software LaserGreek
and LaserGreek II (ASCII-encoded) fonts to the new
Unicode-encoded fonts in LaserGreek in Unicode. This
allows you to convert all your old work to the new fonts without the
need for any retyping. |
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The Converter will allow you to convert
Unicode-encoded Greek text typed with our LaserGreek in Unicode fonts or
with standard Windows or Macintosh fonts to the non-Unicode encoding of
LaserGreek and/or LaserGreek II fonts. This is important for users of
non-Unicode programs such as QuarkXPress 6.5 or older, FrameMaker, or
PageMaker. If you receive projects typed with Unicode-encoded fonts you
can convert them to LaserGreek and/or LaserGreek II fonts for use in
those programs that do not support Unicode fonts. |
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The Converter will allow you to convert
text typed in a Unicode-encoded font unique to the Mac or Windows
Operating System (e.g. Lucida Grande and Palatino Linotype) for use with
LaserGreek and LaserGreek II non-Unicode encoded fonts. This allows a
user of non-Unicode encoded fonts to convert a document from the other
platform. |
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The Converter will convert LaserGreek in
Unicode text from the OpenType arrangement to the Composite arrangement
(the arrangement produced with the deadkey keyboard input method), and
from the Composite arrangement to the OpenType arrangement. Since only
Word 2003 for Windows and Mellel for Macintosh currently support the
OpenType input method this makes it possible to convert documents
to/from this arrangement for collaboration with those Windows and/or
Macintosh users who are using LaserGreek in Unicode fonts, but who do
not use Word 2003 or Mellel. |
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The Converter will allow those users who
placed an underdot under some Greek letters in their ASCII text, and
then converted that text to Unicode-encoded text, to convert separate
letters with an underdot to composite forms that look much better than
the separate letters. |
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In addition to the above, LaserGreek Converter
for Macintosh can convert SuperGreek and first-generation Graeca and
SymbolGreek text to the
current generation of ASCII-encoded LaserGreek and/or LaserGreek II fonts.
See below for more details on this Mac-only
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The
converter is a series of macros embedded in three Microsoft Word documents. You
simply copy the appropriate macro(s) into Word's Normal template file and run the macro(s) to convert the text to the
Unicode-encoded values of the LaserGreek in Unicode fonts. The macros do not
affect any other text in your documents except the LaserGreek (or LaserGreek II)
text, allowing you to retain your document's original formatting. The LaserGreek
Converter makes a daunting task simple.
Complete instructions for setup and use are included in the
LaserGreek Converter User's Manual. No experience with Word macros is
required. Step-by-step instructions are included.
LaserGreek Converter for Windows
System Requirements:
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Operating System - The LaserGreek Converter
requires Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT 4.0, Me, 98, or 95. But note that
LaserGreek in Unicode (the fonts to which you are converting the files)
requires Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, or NT 4.0 for keyboard support. So even
though you may run the Converter in earlier versions of Windows you will
need the later versions of Windows to work with the converted files.
(See LaserGreek in Unicode for Windows for
details.) |
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Applications - Requires Microsoft Word 2007, 2003,
2002 (XP), 2000, or 97. The documents you are going to convert must be Word
for Windows documents, since the macros are Word macros embedded in a Word
file. |
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Fonts - Requires one or more of the
LaserGreek and/or LaserGreek II
(ASCII-encoded) fonts from Linguist's Software and the corresponding
Unicode-encoded font from the LaserGreek in Unicode
for Windows product. Note: In some circumstances you must install both the
ASCII-encoded (LaserGreek and/or LaserGreek II) font(s) that you used to
type your documents and the corresponding Unicode-encoded (LaserGreekU)
fonts to which you are converting the documents. |
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The LaserGreek
and/or LaserGreek II ASCII-encoded fonts used in your documents must be version
10.0 (for LaserGreek, dated April 25, 1997) or version 2.0 (for
LaserGreek II, dated April 25, 1997) or newer to be successfully converted. If your fonts are
older than version 10.0/2.0 you must first update
LaserGreek and/or LaserGreek II and convert your documents to the new version of the
ASCII-encoded fonts following instructions in the Troubleshooting
Manual. Then the LaserGreek Converter can be used to convert your
documents to the Unicode-encoded version of LaserGreek.
How do I find the
version number? |
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All documentation is in Adobe Acrobat PDF
format, so Adobe Reader must be installed on your computer. If
you do not already have it installed, you can download Adobe Reader free
from the
Adobe web site. |
Cost: US$ 79.95 Order
Do you need to upgrade? Check the
current version number and a Release History.
LaserGreek Converter for Macintosh
In addition to the benefits named
above, LaserGreek Converter for Macintosh includes
macros for converting SuperGreek and first-generation Graeca and SymbolGreek text to LaserGreek and/or
LaserGreek II (ASCII-encoded) text. For example, you may convert either SuperGreek
or Graeca text to either Graeca II or SymbolGreek II (part of
LaserGreek), or to Odyssea (part of LaserGreek II), and you may convert
SymbolGreek text to either SymbolGreek II or Odyssea. SuperGreek,
Graeca, and SymbolGreek are obsolete and no longer sold. They had Mac System 6
arrangements, and LaserGreek Converter will allow users to convert those
files either to the current generation of ASCII-encoded fonts (in a one-step
process) or to the new Unicode-encoded fonts (in a two-step process).
(For more on the history of our Greek fonts,
see here.)
System Requirements:
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Applications - Requires Microsoft
Word 2004 or 2011 to convert files to LaserGreek in Unicode
fonts. Word 2008 does not support Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
macros and therefore will not work. You must have Word 2004 or 2011.
(Microsoft left VBA out of Word 2008.) The files you are going to convert must be Word for
Macintosh files, since the macros are Word macros embedded in a Word
file. (See LaserGreek in Unicode for
Macintosh to be sure you understand the System Requirements for the
Unicode-encoded fonts.) |
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Fonts - You must install both the
ASCII-encoded font used in your files and the ASCII- or Unicode-encoded
fonts to which you are converting the files. For SuperGreek users, the
LaserGreek Converter includes a version of SuperGreek which may be used
for the conversion process. If you need to convert SuperGreek files to
Unicode-encoded fonts you must have one of the
LaserGreek or LaserGreek II ASCII-encoded
fonts for the first step in the conversion from SuperGreek. If you do
not own either LaserGreek or LaserGreek II you can purchase the Graeca
II font for $39.95, as part of Graeca II &
Hebraica II. Then you can convert SuperGreek to Graeca II and then
convert Graeca II to the Unicode-encoded font. |
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All documentation is in Adobe Acrobat PDF
format, so Adobe Reader must be installed on your computer. If
you do not already have it installed, you can download Adobe Reader free
from the
Adobe web site. |
Cost: US$ 79.95 Order
Here's what others are saying about the LaserGreek Converter:
"This is an amazing resource for me. Thanks so
much!"
Jennifer Knust
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
"Your LaserGreek Converter works fine, the
accompanying manual is very clear, and everything was so straightforward
that the whole thing had major repercussions upon my work: I've finally
given up on WordPerfect and switched to Microsoft Word."
A. S., University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
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LaserGreek Converter
