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Re: More RiscOS 3 fonts to PostScript...

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From: Ug!
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 03:16
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>Philip Colmer writes:
>  You shouldn't need to do ANYTHING with your fonts once you've got
> cooperative software.

Really?  Then how come !Draw doesn't download the fonts?!!!

Anyway, I ported the orginal Type-1 font, and clicked on the 'Keep PostScript'
box - now it downloads the PostScript Type-1 file which is stored in the same
place as the metrics and outlines.  Neat!  (except the size of the PostScript
printouts has jumped is size... you win some, you lose some...)

So the moral of the story seems to me to be: if there's a Type-1 stored with
the font, it will be downloaded, otherwise, it won't.

Now, how many users have access to the original Type-1's?
								Ug!

P.S.  The Type-1 converter doesn't work on all Type-1 fonts.  Bummer.
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Subject: Re: More RiscOS 3 fonts to PostScript...
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Date: 7 Oct 92 16:16:36 +1300
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