hardy@rhi.hi.is (Yngvi Hardarson) (02/28/89)
What utilities/font editors are there available for editing NFNT font resources? Please reply by email. I will summarise if requested but I suspect the subject has been brought up before. Regards, Yngvi Hardarson hardy@rhi.hi.is
ggiergiel@vmsa.cf.uci.edu (03/08/89)
In article <776@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, hardy@rhi.hi.is (Yngvi Hardarson) writes... >What utilities/font editors are there available for editing NFNT font >resources? First a word of advise. Do not do it. Macintosh font system is so complicated (or rather messy) that even ADOBE and Apple has problems doing things right. Vide: last (3.8) FONT/DA mover from apple that is more than happy to add as many copies of the same NFTN as you wish to system file. If you are not carefull enough you may end up with 10 NFNT for TIMES 72. Good job Apple !. I certainly hope that NEXT will do things right, after all the mess that is there in MAC domain is becoming unbearable (vide: stupidity of using nonstandard postscript vector, FOND width tables with data inconsistent with actual postscript definition, all those ashow/show cludgy solutions, etc etc. ) However if you insist on entering this swamp use FONTASTIC+ 2.0. This software is buggy and occasionally illogical, but will allow you to edit character images regardless wheter they are in FONT and NFNT. ( There is no difference between FONT and NFNT, both are the same data structures. Let me correct myself: there are some differences (like NFNT can have fractional width table attached to it, a feature no commercial font I know of uses) To change NFNT atribute bytes use RESEDIT, but remember to open NFNT as FONT resource. For some strange reason you can not edit NFNT bitmaps in RESEDIT. If the only thing you are interested in is conversion of families from FONT to NFTN types try NFTN utility (public domain I believe). How robust it is I have no idea. Good luck!
frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) (03/08/89)
Also, messing with the ids will make your fonts specific to *your*
system. That is, unless the software you use saves font names rather
than ids, you won't be able to print or even reasonably edit your
files on another system. Few programs save names (e.g., XPress does,
Word doesn't). One of the desktop publishing magazines ("Publish!",
maybe?) recently listed those that do; the list was short.
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Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
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