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In article <19972@cornell.UUCP> ho@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Alex Ho) writes:
|In article <9677@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
|>In article <15054@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
|>>The Apple LaserWriter II NT[X] does not print the symbol font in bold type.
|>>Is there an Adobe downloadable font for symbol-bold and symbol-italic
|>>or are there any other solutions?
|>
|>Better be more specific on your System configuration, BUT I just tried
|>it on a Mac Plus, System 5.0, Microsoft Word 3.01, and you're right.
|>At least what it does print doesn't look bold.  Looks the same as plain
|>print except the spacing is quite messed up.  Anyone have a clue?
|>
|>Ken
|>
|i seem to remember reading somewhere in adobe's literature that
|bold, italic, or italic-bold variants of symbol just don't exist. i guess
|that their logic is that people just don't need to embolden symbols. :-)

It is true that Adobe does not have Bold, Italic and BoldItalic versions
of their symbol font, or at the vary least didn't when my font catalog
went to print :-), but it is possible the somebody, somewhere has them
for a Symbol-esque font.  Your other option, if Fontographer--or another
Postscript font editor--is not out of the question (financially, etc.) is
to create your own.  I would recommend that you use the Times family as a
guide, as Symbol seems to me to be based on Times more than any other
font.

-JimC
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