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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
- Message-ID: <1067@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 13:07:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.072706.29433@nimno.wpa.com>
- Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com
- Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com
- Lines: 46
-
- John Bartley writes
-
- > You can turn this around, too. A client of mine bought Helvetica
- > Fractions to use with FrameMaker. EVERY NeXT app they have sees
- > Helvetica Fractions in the font panel except for FrameMaker. We asked
- > RightBrain about this and they said it was Frame's fault - ask Frame.
- > We asked Frame about it and guess what? They said ask Rightbrain.
- >
- > So, a pox upon Frame for their font panel, and a pox upon RightBrain
- > for not living up to their support promise.
-
- Anything but the pox! Besides, Frame didn't live up to their support
- promise, either, and it's their problem, actually.
-
- FrameMaker does not use the NeXT font panel, and in so doing introduces
- all kinds of bugs. For example, when I launch FrameMaker on my machine,
- the default font is Times Phonetic instead of Times Roman. Times Phonetic,
- as you might imagine, is unreadable, since it's got weird letters as
- used in dictionaries. They don't cope well with weird font naming
- conventions.
-
- I was not aware that you contacted us with poor results, but we actually
- did not steer you wrong, technically speaking. It is Frame's bug, as
- is evidenced by the fact that the fonts work in every other application
- just fine. The fact that Frame does not know about it or how to fix it
- is another issue.
-
- We have done a lot of free technical support for Frame, who have not had
- a good track record in acknowledging and fixing this problem. We will
- continue to support our fonts under FrameMaker, but it is time-consuming
- and difficult, and their font mechanism is not documented or particularly
- well supported. It's a process of trial and error. Having the latest
- version of FrameMaker helps quite a bit, but they still haven't got it
- completely right.
-
- In any case, I would like to lift the pox from RightBrain and help you.
- I have just verified on my system that Helvetica Fractions doesn't work
- in the latest version of FrameMaker, even with the custom "fontlist"
- file that we have, which means that it isn't because you don't have the
- latest version of everything. I'll contact you over Email to sort it
- out.
-
- --
- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
- RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
- Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
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