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- POSTSCRIPT INSTALLATION
-
- This new font includes matched .PFB and .PFM files. These two should be all
- you will need to use the font in virtually all of your Windows applications
- which can specify typefaces. An .AFM file is included, but you probably will
- not need it for your installation. The rest of this file includes:
-
- -- How to install using Adobe Type Manager
- -- How to install manually
- -- Information about our rights and obligations
-
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- FONT INSTALLATION USING ATM
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- Run ATMCNTL.EXE (or click your appropriate icon) to add the new fonts. Follow
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- ATM instructions or check your manual. When finished, please note that you'll
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- have to exit Windows and return to enable access to the new fonts.
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- If you use ATM, you may have to manually edit the entry in your WIN.INI file
- so that your printer will download your new font whenever it's called for. If
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- you get Courier instead of the new font, then your printer probably didn't
- download the file. To fix the problem, add the font's .PFB file path and name
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- to the WIN.INI softfont entry line as in the following example:
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- softfont42=c:\your-pfm-path\mirisch.pfm,C:\YOUR-PFB-PATH\MIRISCH.PFB
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- The comma and all-caps section is what you'll have to add. (It's not
- case-sensitive.) The first half of the entry should have already been made by
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- ATM. If your listing looks like this and you still get Courier on your
- printer, then the problem is something else.
-
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- FONT INSTALLATION MANUALLY
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- This is the method I use because I like to know exactly what's being done and
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- that it WAS done.
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- Using the new font "Mirisch":
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- 1. Locate the directory that has all of your existing .PFM files and copy the
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- new .PFM file to that directory. Locate your .PFB files and copy the new .PFB
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- there.
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- 2. A note about editing ".INI" files: When manually changing any Windows
- software xxx.INI file, you should first make a backup copy of the file in
- case the one you create has some problem. I also suggest that you name the
- backup something like xxx.BAC or xxx.ORG and keep it in the same directory.
- Many programs have standardized on a backup file extender of ".BAK" -- if you
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- fall into the habit of using that one in manual backups which you make, one
- of these days you may have a needed backup over-written by some installation
- program or editor that also uses ".BAK" for its extender. After you've made a
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- backup copy of the .INI file, load the working copy into your favorite editor
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- for the new changes.
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- 3. In your Windows directory (probably), locate and edit ATM.INI under
- [Fonts]:
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- Mirisch=c:\your-pfm-path\mirisch.pfm,c:\your-pfb-path\mirisch.pfb
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- The name used before the = sign is case-sensitive; the filenames after the
- equal sign are not. Some fonts use upper and lower case in their names.
- Naturally you need to substitute your own path to the files where it
- indicates "your-...-path."
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- 4. In your Windows directory, edit WIN.INI under [PostScript,LPT1] and/or any
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- other section that has a complete listing of your fonts (for instance, if you
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- have a second printer using the fonts). You need to increment the softfonts
- number by 1 for each new font added, per the following example:
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- If your listing reads:
- softfonts=41
- then change it to
- softfonts=42
- Then go down past the last current listing (i.e. softfont41=xxxx)
- And add the following line
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- softfont42=c:\your-pfm-path\mirisch.pfm,c:\your-pfb-path\mirisch.pfb
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- Leave off the comma and .pfb portion if you don't want the font automatically
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- downloaded whenever it's called for. You will then have to manually download
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- that font or else it will print in the Courier font. (You might do this if
- it's a font you use a lot; you set up a routine to manually download it into
- your printer's "permanent" memory at the start of a session; whenever that
- font is asked for, Windows doesn't download it because the lack of a .pfb
- portion of the font entry tells Windows that it's already in the printer.)
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- 5. You must go from Windows to DOS and then back for changes to WIN.INI and
- ATM.INI to take effect. If you don't, you won't see the new fonts listed as
- being available from your applications.
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- 6. Depending on the application used, you may have to "refresh" the list of
- fonts available with the current printer selected. Sometimes just
- re-selecting your printer will update a font list that was not automatically
- updated. See your software's manual for individual commands that may be
- necessary to refresh a font list.
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- YOUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
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- The only shareware fee or obligation you pay to use this font is your having
- had to download the archived package with my font promotion information files
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- attached. For having downloaded and read the files, you get to use this new
- font for free forever.
-
- You have unlimited rights to use this font in any form your software will use
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- it ... except as another font file. You may not do anything with the font
- file itself except install it, make backup copies, and let your software use
- it to format and create characters. You may not convert the font to another
- format and distribute it.
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- Copies of the complete archived file, as you received it, may be posted on
- bulletin boards.
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- MY RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
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- This font is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any
- express warranty including even the implied warranty of merchantability or
- fitness for a particular purpose.
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- I retain ownership of the creation of this font and rights of distribution of
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- this font in any form.
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- Adding new fonts generally presents no bug or compatibility problems that
- haven't already been solved when you first installed another font. I know you
-
- don't expect an 800 number or 24-hour hotline, but I'd be happy to respond to
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- your messages, compliments or general b.s. posted on CompuServe (72327,1702)
- or America OnLine (ThomasH53). Or if you send a stamped self-addressed
- envelope, I'll do my best to solve your problem or answer your questions.
-
-
-
- Thomas E. Harvey
- September 1, 1992
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