jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway) (02/07/89)
When I try to print bold-face Symbol characters on the LaserWriter, they always come out as plain. This happens in all applications. Is there any way to print bold-face Symbol on the LaserWriter? System 4.3, LaserWriter 5.1. Some further details: I have run a postscript program on the LaserWriter (hereafter: LW) immediately after turning it on, to see what fonts it actually has. For some fonts, e.g. Times, the LW contains a separate description of a Times-Bold font, which it uses to print bold-face Times. But there is no bold-face version of Symbol. However, downloaded bitmap fonts can be printed in boldface, which the LW does by "blurring" the characters. Is there any way to persuade the LW to do this to the Symbol font as well? Strangely, the LW has no difficulty printing italic Symbol, even though it does not have a Symbol-Italic font - it just applies a shear to the plain Symbol font. There is a workaround: make a copy of the Macintosh Symbol font, and give it a different font name and id. Then both the Macintosh and the LW think it is just an ordinary bit-map font, which the LW prints boldface by blurring. (If anyone else wants to do this, a hint: the print quality will be best if you dont make any size larger than 12-point of a "Symbol bits" font.) However, I would rather have PostScript quality. Any ideas? -- Richard Kennaway SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. uucp: ...mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!jrk Janet: kennaway@uk.ac.uea.sys
bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) (02/10/89)
In article <426@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@s1.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:
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#When I try to print bold-face Symbol characters on the LaserWriter, they
#always come out as plain. This happens in all applications. Is there any
#way to print bold-face Symbol on the LaserWriter?
#
The original LaserWriter had the boldface symbol font, but the upgraded
version did not (they replaced that part of the ROM with more
sophisticated program, I believe). We discovered this early on
as we were among the first to get the upgraded ROMs. We were told
that Apple never said BF Symbol was supported.
I get around this by overprinting a symbol with the same symbol
shifted one point to the right (using the overprint feature of
Word). Kludgy, doesn't really look that great. The only really
satisfactory solution, I think, is to buy a symbol font that has
boldface, and to download it into the LW when needed.
Bill Jefferys
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Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you
do call for them? -- Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) (02/10/89)
This is not a solution but an alternative...
I use the Belsley and Bartholomew fonts that I pulled off of
sumex instead of Symbol. They are laser fonts and can print
in bold face. They also have a larger set of Greek and
Mathematical symbols than the Symbol font.
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