bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Brian Martin) (12/07/88)
Hello,
I finally got myself a LaserWriter NTX, and would like to know how you get
rid of all the multiple font style names from the font menu without losing
their functionality. For example, to display the Italic Helvetica font on
screen, I have to select the "I Helvetica" font. I'd rather select the plain
Helvetica font, then select the Italic style from the menu. That way, my
font menu wouldn't be cluttered with "I Helvetica", "B Helvetica" etc.
I remember seeing a discussion of this in the past, but since I didn't
have a LaserWriter back then, I didn't save the articles.
Also, where can I get additional bitmap versions of PostScript fonts that
come with the LaserWriter. A friend of mine forwarded to me bold and italic
bitmaps for the Avant Garde and Helvetica fonts, and I find them much nicer
to work with than the system-generated fonts.
Thanks,
---- Brian
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Brian K. Martin, M.D.
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INTERNET: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.eduhodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) (12/07/88)
In article <2763@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian K. Martin, M.D.) writes: >Hello, > > I finally got myself a LaserWriter NTX, and would like to know how you get >rid of all the multiple font style names from the font menu without losing >their functionality. For example, to display the Italic Helvetica font on >screen, I have to select the "I Helvetica" font. I'd rather select the plain >Helvetica font, then select the Italic style from the menu. That way, my >font menu wouldn't be cluttered with "I Helvetica", "B Helvetica" etc. > >==== >Brian K. Martin, M.D. >ARPA: uhccux!bmartin@nosc.MIL >UUCP: {uunet,dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!bmartin >INTERNET: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu Well a messy manual way to do this is available,it involves meesing with names in the fond and font resources. I'll post the details later if you really want. This method has the added problem of not working in some programs which go ahead and display the "hidden" names anyway. The best technique I know right now is to get suitcaseII. It comes with a utility called font harmony which among other things will convert font families into proper nfonts. The nice thing is that the nfonts seem to work correctly in all apps that i've tried. Also, when using font/da mover you now see all the stylized versions grouped with their base font, but represented in the appropriate style in the font list. (ie for bold helvetica 12 you see "helvetica 12" but in bolded chicago). One note, I recently got a free nfont-maker utility that was posted by olduvai software. It unfortunately was unable to work on font families that had been previously mucked about in the way discussed in the first paragraaph. Font Harmony, on the other hand, worked quite well. Josh (standard disclaimer --- Steve Brecher is a god.) ------------------------- Josh Hodas (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 4223 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 222-7112 (home) (215) 898-5423 (school office)
ecs175f037@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie) (12/08/88)
In article <2763@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian K. Martin, M.D.) writes: > Also, where can I get additional bitmap versions of PostScript fonts that >come with the LaserWriter. A friend of mine forwarded to me bold and italic >bitmaps for the Avant Garde and Helvetica fonts, and I find them much nicer >to work with than the system-generated fonts. >==== >Brian K. Martin, M.D. >ARPA: uhccux!bmartin@nosc.MIL >UUCP: {uunet,dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!bmartin >INTERNET: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu I've talked with several people via e-mail and between us we probably have most of the screen fonts. If indeed these can be distributed on the net how about getting somebody to collect them from various people and making one combined posting to comp.binaries.mac. (Ever notice how when people say "why doesn't somebody..." they REALLY mean "why doesn't somebody other than ME ...") Oh well, I'll bite the bullet and volunteer. If people want to mail me their screen fonts I'll collect them. Please use stuffit to compress! To start things off, I already have the following and will contribute them: Avant Garde Palatino New Century Schoolbook Garamond Galliard Franklin Gothic Century Old Style The last 4 are for those who have access to a service bureau or other printer with those fonts and who want to create documents to use them. ----- Greg DeMichillie Apple Student Rep - UC Davis lgdemichillie@ucdavis.edu {...} ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!u545731798ea AppleLink: ST0178 Disclaimer: If you've seen one disclaimer, you've seen them all.