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- From: mshaler@tdocad.sps.mot.com (Michael Shaler)
- Subject: Font s are not WYSIWYG (HELP: they look like refugees from MS Windows!!)
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:20:44 GMT
- Reply-To: mshaler@tdocad.sps.mot.com
- Organization: Nippon Motorola Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Keywords: fonts, fear, loathing
- Sender: news@tkymail.sps.mot.com
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.112044.1404@tkymail.sps.mot.com>
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- I'm very confused about things:
-
- 1. Why do Palatino and other families--Architect, Bodoni, etc.
- generally look like road-kill on the screen?
- 2. Furthermore, some fonts (Palatino Roman 12) show up on-screen
- as Helvetica!!
-
- Things get stranger when it's time to print.
- 1. When I print to a remote Apple NTX-J over NFS, things work.
- 2. When I print to a local NeXT color printer, I get Courier!!
- 3. When I try to print the public domain Architect font
- (never very predictable, even under 2.1) I get screen fonts,
- but Courier on paper.
-
- To review steps taken thus far:
- 1. Deleted the hidden files in the /LocalLibrary/Fonts
- directory (.afmcache, .fontdirectory, and .fontlist),
- 2. Logged in as root,ran buildafmdir and cacheAFMData
- 3. Made sure the permissions were set correctly for everybody,
- 4. Logged back in as myself, and
- 5. Was promptly disappointed by what I saw.
-
- Any helpful hints from Those Who Know Better?
- ---
- Michael Shaler
- Tokyo Design Center
- Nippon Motorola Ltd.
- +813 3280 8245 voice
- +813 3440 0033 fax
-