dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (01/24/87)
The net comes through again. Thanks *very much* to all the people
who dug out FEdit, ResEdit, looked through their documentation, and
so forth. For others who may be interested, here's a summary of the
information.
By the way, my query asked about the LaserWriter II. What a dope. I
should have said LaserWriter Plus.
Real font name Mac FOND name Font Resource id of
ID point size 0
ITC Zapf Dingbats Zapf Dingbats 13 1664
ITC Bookman Bookman 14 1792
Helvetica Narrow N Helvetica Narrow 15 1920
Palatino Palatino 16 2048
ITC Zapf Chancery Zapf Chancery 18 2304
ITC Avant Garde Avant Garde 33 4224
New Century Schoolbook New Century Schlbk 34 4352
Helvetica, Times, Palatino, and New Century Schoolbook are trademarks of
Allied Coporation.
ITC Avant Garde, ITC Bookman, ITC Dingbats, ITC Zapf Chancery are trademarks of
International Typeface Corporation.
A word about the "Resource id of point size 0". You'll note that the
number is always 128 * Font ID. Resource numbers of fonts are computed
as (128 * Font ID) + point size, i.e., point size in bits 0-6, font number
in bits 7-15 (at least for the old numbering scheme). The resource id
of the font that equals 128 * Font ID + 0 corresponds to a point size of
zero, which is illegal: such a resource is used only for the font name
(it's the resource name). My observations show that resources for the
other point sizes are unnamed. (Note that if you open up the FONTs of
a file with ResEdit, you'll get very different results if you hold the
option key down than if you don't.)
I'm only mentioning it because up until yesterday I didn't know it
(having perused the Font Manager section of Inside Macintosh only
cursorily previously), and thought someone else might like to know.
I notice that several people mentioned FOND resources in their messages.
I know that these are supposed to describe entire font families, but
otherwise am quite in the dark about them. From my mail, I am led to
speculate that the FOND resource id for a particular font family is
also the Font ID for the family. Would anyone care to comment further?
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I Samuel 21:15lsr@apple.UUCP (01/26/87)
In article <935@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes: > >I notice that several people mentioned FOND resources in their messages. >I know that these are supposed to describe entire font families, but >otherwise am quite in the dark about them. From my mail, I am led to >speculate that the FOND resource id for a particular font family is >also the Font ID for the family. Would anyone care to comment further? > This is correct; the FOND resource describes a whole family of fonts. They are only supported on 128K ROMs. Inside Macintosh Volume IV explains about FOND's in more detail. One use of this is to remove the limit of 256 fonts imposed by the 128*FontID convention. Another is to allow the system to have different fonts for different styles. For example, a FOND resource can specify that the bold version of a particular family is formed by smearing the plain font, but that the italic version can be found a separate FONT resource (rather than slanting the plain version). The FOND resource also contains the font width table and character kern table. -- Larry Rosenstein Object Specialist Apple Computer AppleLink: Rosenstein1 UUCP: {sun, voder, nsc, mtxinu, dual}!apple!lsr CSNET: lsr@Apple.CSNET