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Article #10487Re: ATM Font Families, help
From: Jeff Wiseman
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 14:58
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 14:58
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In article <2869@mtuni.ATT.COM> psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu) writes: >But it mentioned that this does not solve all of the problems. NFNT format may >merge Times, and Times Italics into one family, it cannot handle different font >weights (such as bold, light bold, heavy bold, etc). In fact, if you select >bold, there's no telling what weight you will be getting. This is the fault of >the font manager, so there is currently no solution. The only exception to this Another way is to put the different bolds into 4 style "sets" assigned a different name in a suitcase by itself. then use suitcaseII to pull in the family (eg. heavy bold times) that you want. It's a little clumsy and uses redundant space on your disk but it is possible in a simple fashion. Hope this helps -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tellab5!wiseman From: wiseman@tellab5.tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ATM Font Families, help Keywords: atm mac Message-ID: <2253@tellab5.tellabs.com> Date: 15 Mar 90 14:58:39 GMT References: <1611@diamond2.UUCP> <2869@mtuni.ATT.COM> Reply-To: wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman) Distribution: comp Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL Lines: 17