nedludd@ut-emx.UUCP (charles s. geiger, esq.) (02/16/89)
I don't have a clue. I recently downloaded the Adobe Times fonts from sumex. I took out the old Times and put in the new Times. The font looks nicer (especially the italics, which no longer run into unitalicized words), but it changes the spacing of words in old files (well, at least one old file, which had bold and italics in it), both on-screen and printed out, which is unacceptable. My confusion is this: since both of these are screen fonts for Times, shouldn't they space the words identically? I mean, screen fonts are approximations of printer fonts and shouldn't dictate what prints out, right? But, using the Apple screen font gives me one thing on the screen (and on paper), while the Adobe font gives me something else on the screen (and something else on paper). Someone told me that the Apple Times screen font was screwed up and didn't approximate laser output correctly (that's what the Adobe font was for, to correct this), but I don't believe this, having never had anything print out incorrectly with the old screen font. Another question: assuming that this inconsistency between screen fonts is here to stay, is there a way to have both screen fonts accessible at the same time (I guess by somehow renaming one of them)? I realize this is probably impossible, because both screen fonts tie into to the same printer font. Now what I do is keep both fonts in Suitcase and open and close one or the other depending on which one I need. But this is a pain. Thanks for any answers you may have. cheers, from charles s. geiger, esq.
isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) (02/17/89)
In article <10532@ut-emx.UUCP> nedludd@ut-emx.UUCP (charles s. geiger, esq.) writes: >The font looks nicer (especially the italics, which no longer run >into unitalicized words), but it changes the spacing of words in >old files (well, at least one old file, which had bold and italics >in it), both on-screen and printed out, which is unacceptable. > >My confusion is this: since both of these are screen fonts for >Times, shouldn't they space the words identically? I mean, screen >fonts are approximations of printer fonts and shouldn't dictate >what prints out, right? > Wrong. Welcome to the wonderful world of pseudo-postscript. The LaserWriter is postscript, but the Macintosh is not. What the Mac sends to the LaserWriter is strictly dependent on which screen fonts you have installed. The Adobe FONDs are slightly different than the Apple screen fonts. This causes the spacing to change on old documents. >Another question: assuming that this inconsistency between screen >fonts is here to stay, is there a way to have both screen fonts >accessible at the same time (I guess by somehow renaming one of >them)? I realize this is probably impossible, because both screen >fonts tie into to the same printer font. Now what I do is keep >both fonts in Suitcase and open and close one or the other >depending on which one I need. But this is a pain. No way that I know of too have both screen fonts. Besides, the Adobe are better.... >Thanks for any answers you may have. stupid inews line stupid inews line stupid inews line stupid inews line stupid inews line stupid inews line stupid inews line stupid inews line Ken Hancock '90 | BITNET/UUCP/ Personal Computing Ctr Consultant | INTERNET: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER? I don't get paid enough to worry about disclaimers.