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- From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
- Subject: Re: Davys Dingbats and ATM
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.190530.26030@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: University of Hawaii
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:05:30 GMT
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- John Serrano writes:
-
- > I just ftp'ed DAVYDING.ZIP from WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU (in the /mirrors/win3
- > /fonts/atm directory). It is a symbolic font, similar in spirit to
- > Zapf Dingbats.
- >
- > The zip file contains the needed files for Windows and OS/2 ATM. I un-
- > zipped the *.afm and *.pfb files into the ¢os2¢dll directory, and
- > installed it via the font palette. Good to go? No!
- >
- > When I selected the font in Describe, I get blank spaces when I try
- > to type something (if I get that far). Has anyone tried using it with
- > some degree of success? An inquiring mind would like to know.
-
- There are lots of fonts that for some reason simply don't work under OS/2
- properly. I haven't tried the one you're referring to here, but there are
- others, including some among the OS/2 archives at the NMSU FTP site, that
- cause very strange behavior. Some fonts do nothing more than display
- blank spaces, just like the one you tried. Others display properly on the
- screen, but when you try to print them, the word processor decides to exit
- without being told to do so. And in the case of CaslonOpenFace, a pretty
- font on screen, the mere act of typing an uppercase 'm' will kill the word
- processor (this behavior has been observed with both DeScribe 3.0 and
- Word 1.1b).
-
- The author of the PFM2AFM converter mentions in the documentation that the
- .AFM file stores more information than the .PFM file, so the converter can't
- properly create all of the information that the .AFM can contain. I can
- only guess that this missing information is somehow to blame for the weird
- performance of some fonts.
-