allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (01/08/90)
I have a question which I hope someone will be able to answer... or at least
address.
A number of Mac applications make use of certain fonts (primarily Geneva and
Monaco) in situations where the user has little or no control over the choice
of font. (The primary example is reports from some applications, e.g.
HyperCard's page headers in "Print Report..." and reports generated by
Quicken.) These just plain don't work for me, since I'm using a 24-pin
printer with a Grappler card (and eagerly awating the arrival of PrintLink at
mail order houses!), so I need a 2.5x printer font. (Ever see a QuickDraw-
scaled Monaco 22.5?) This is, needless to say, a pain.
The "easy" solution is to replace those fonts with equivalent fonts for which
a PostScript Type 1 outline font is available. This, however, has a few
problems. For example, what PS font should replace Monaco? And, of course,
there's the problem that the Finder wants Geneva 9; an ATM-scaled Helvetica 9
doesn't look quite as good (understandable), and it takes time to build, so I
would need to find an Adobe bitmap for Helvetica 9. (Replacing Geneva with
Helvetica is the work of a few minutes with a copy of the Helvetica and Geneva
FONT resources and ResEdit; I've done this before, replacing Apple's Courier
with the SWA Courier bitmaps provided with the Grappler.)
Can anyone out there help me resolve some of these problems?
Thanks in advance.
++Brandon
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In article <1990Jan7.174035.12807@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >problems. For example, what PS font should replace Monaco? And, of course, >there's the problem that the Finder wants Geneva 9; an ATM-scaled Helvetica 9 I use Tiny myself occasionally for the Finder. It prints pretty well on a LaserWriter due to its angled nature. Just a thought... -- Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414, Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 548-5163 : EMAIL - hallett@gemed.ge.com "Non Sequitor - Your facts are uncoordinated"; "I am Nomad: I am perfect."