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- From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jay Elmore)
- Subject: Re: Fonts and System 7.1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.060857.5461@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <184146@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 06:08:57 GMT
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- (forgive my judicious editings; I want to keep this brief...)
-
- In article <184146@pyramid.pyramid.com> bms@pyramid.com (Bruce Schlobohm) writes:
- >
- >Ok, so I've received my System 7.1 upgrade, and ATM 3.0. Last night I
- >installed them on my PB140. [...]
- >
- >The install completed and all my fonts are in the Font folder.
- >I noticed that the TrueType fonts were in suitcases with their
- >respective bitmap fonts. Should the Postscript fonts go in the
- >suitcase as well?
-
- PostScript fonts cannot go into suitcases, as they are separate files.
- TrueType fonts are resources similar to fonts, so they can be put into
- suitcases.
-
- If you meant "in the folder", yes and no. Some older programs might not search
- for PostScript fonts in the Fonts folder; if not, try moving them into the
- Extensions folder. Another option is to use Suitcase 2.1.2 (the
- 7.1-compatible version) as it will maintain PostScript fonts in any folder
- with an "open" (by Suitcase) font suitcase. However, you can't open the
- fonts that are in the Fonts folder; instead, try making a "PostScript
- Fonts" folder in your System Folder, and put the printer fonts and their
- matching suitcases in there. (It gets around that nasty 128-file limit, too!)
-
- >
- >I was able to print just fine with my Postscript fonts in the font
- >folder. However, one of the Postscript font files had the same name
- >as the matching suitcase with the bitmap fonts, so I renamed the Postscript
- >font file. Will this work?
-
- I'm not 100% sure. PostScript fonts' names follow a special system; the
- first 5 letters of the first word in the name, followed by the first 3
- letters of any following words. (i.e. Courier is "Couri", a bold oblique
- version would be "CouriBolObl".) A better bet would be to rename the font
- suitcase; that shouldn't hurt anything.
-
- >
- >The documentation provided with the upgrade focused more on the new
- >Numbers and Dates control panels, and hardly mentioned the Fonts folder.
- >
- No kidding. What a pain...
- >--
- >bruce schlobohm
- >bms@pyramid.com
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- Jay (=
-
- (geez, give me a second to work on one...)
-