MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) (10/14/89)
mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) writes: >It will take your screen font files and, when used in collusion with >Font/DA Mover 3.8, will merge styled faces into a single typeface >family. Do this *only* if you know exactly what you are doing! Font Harmony (*not* Harmonizer, btw) has to make educated guesses during a merge in some cases; sometimes the result can be confusing. Around here we stick with Adobe's scheme and use 'B Helvetica Bold' rather than spec-ing Helvetica and then adding the bold attribute. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stephan Somogyi MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com NetWorkShop Coord. or MacUser ...{apple|uunet|sun}!cup.portal.com!MacUserLabs The MacUser NetWorkShop - home of the LocalTalk backbone Any opinions expressed above are mine.
frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) (10/14/89)
In article <23053@cup.portal.com> MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes: >mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) writes: > >>It will take your screen font files and, when used in collusion with >>Font/DA Mover 3.8, will merge styled faces into a single typeface >>family. ... >Font Harmony (*not* Harmonizer, btw) has to make educated guesses >during a merge in some cases; sometimes the result can be confusing. > >Around here we stick with Adobe's scheme and use 'B Helvetica Bold' >rather than spec-ing Helvetica and then adding the bold attribute. Good advice. If you harmonize the fonts IDs on your system, you make them *unique* to your system. This is a problem if you ever want to take your files to another system, such as your local Lino service. Of course, using an application that uses the names rather than the IDs avoids the problem altogether, but not very many programs do that (e.g., Word *still* doesn't, while QuarkXpress does). Regarding shortened menus, the only program I've seen that does this is Smart Art. That is, it displays only the root name (Helvetica, etc.) and pops up a sub-menu for the variations (incl. semi-bold, black, etc.). I'm anxiously waiting for everyone else to catch up. (In other words, harmonizing your fonts has no effect on the font menus.) -- Frank Kolnick, consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank
kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) (10/15/89)
In article <5105@mnetor.UUCP> frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes: ->Font Harmony (*not* Harmonizer, btw) has to make educated guesses ->during a merge in some cases; sometimes the result can be confusing. ->Around here we stick with Adobe's scheme and use 'B Helvetica Bold' ->rather than spec-ing Helvetica and then adding the bold attribute. >Good advice. If you harmonize the fonts IDs on your system, you >make them *unique* to your system. This is a problem if you ever >want to take your files to another system, such as your local >Lino service... The NFNT numbers can be anything you want... it is the FOND numbers that are used to determine what font is used. I am not sure just why Font Harmony renumbers the FONDs, but it does. I just used ResEdit to re-set the FOND IDs back to what they were. I used the LaserWriter distribution IDs as a base, for the common fonts. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)