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Font s are not WYSIWYG (HELP: they look like refugees from MS Windows!!)

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From: Michael Shaler
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:20
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I'm very confused about things:

1.	Why do Palatino and other families--Architect, Bodoni, etc. 
	generally look like road-kill on the screen?  
2.	Furthermore, some fonts (Palatino Roman 12) show up on-screen
	as Helvetica!! 

Things get stranger when it's time to print.  
1.	When I print to a remote Apple NTX-J over NFS, things work.  
2.	When I print to a local NeXT color printer, I get Courier!!  
3.	When I try to print the public domain Architect font 
	(never very predictable, even under 2.1) I get screen fonts,
	but Courier on paper.

To review steps taken thus far:
1.	Deleted the hidden files in the /LocalLibrary/Fonts 
	directory (.afmcache, .fontdirectory, and .fontlist), 
2.	Logged in as root,ran buildafmdir and cacheAFMData 
3.	Made sure the permissions were set correctly for everybody,
4.	Logged back in as myself, and 
5.	Was promptly disappointed by what I saw.  

Any helpful hints from Those Who Know Better?
---
Michael Shaler
Tokyo Design Center
Nippon Motorola Ltd.
+813 3280 8245 voice
+813 3440 0033 fax
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From: mshaler@tdocad.sps.mot.com (Michael Shaler)
Subject: Font s are not WYSIWYG  (HELP: they look like refugees from MS Windows!!)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:20:44 GMT
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Organization: Nippon Motorola Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Keywords: fonts, fear, loathing
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