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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Davys Dingbats and ATM
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.184346.2054@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 18:43:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.190530.26030@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- In article <1992Aug15.190530.26030@news.Hawaii.Edu> tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) writes:
- >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 os2dll 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.
-
- Fonts converted ith PFM2AFM are incomplete. I can See them in the
- Font Palette, and Excel uses them. Many other PM-based apps use them.
- They do NOT work with WPS or other OS/2 2.0 apps, however. DeScribe
- may be using metrics that the converted .PFM file doesn't have.
-
- I installed a Hebrew font set and it worked fine everywhere. It's
- .AFM file was made for the font, not converted from the .PFM file.
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