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In article <DMANDL.92Aug21100410@bilbo.shearson.com> dmandl@bilbo.shearson.com (David Mandl) writes:

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   All right, all right, my mistake.  I read the post a little too quickly, OK?
   (And I still haven't gotten my hands on 3.0, so I wasn't aware of the improve-
   ment.)  As I told Chris via email, I haven't worked with TT fonts, but I have
   worked extensively with PS fonts: with the latter, the name is read by ATM
   from inside the PFB file (it's right at the top).  Change this and you've changed
   the name of the font.  I assume it's more or less the same with TT fonts, but I
   may be wrong.  Take a peek inside your font file.

This is wrong.  The `Windows Face Name' (what is shown in font menus) has
nothing whatever to do with the PostScript Fontname found in the PFB file.

The Windows Face Name is found in the PFM metric file.  It is copied from
there into ATM.INI if you are using ATM.  If you change ATM.INI you can
chaneg the name that shows up in font menus.  But this is not permanent.
The next time you install the font the Face Name from the PFM is copied.

Editing the PFB file (which can't be done directly because it contains
binary length fields) can only change the PostScript FontName - that is,
what is used to refer to the font once it is loaded into the printer.

ATM DOES read the PFB file initially to extract some information, but 
mostly it is looking for the /Encoding line...

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA