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In article <79713501DRJ@MSU> 13501DRJ@MSU.BITNET writes:
>Has anyone found a utility that will convert fonts from Compugraphic,
>Bitstream, etc... to Adobe Type 1 so that only 1 font manager has to be used
>at a time? I'm going to see if Corel Draw v2.0 can produce Type 1 fonts that
>ATM can use tomorrow, I hope...

I just got the Corel update today and was trying that.  Here are my
results:

Overall, it works.  Somewhat.  The problem is in WFNBOSS, which has never
seemed to me to be a well-polished product...
I can deal with not having hints (I doubt the Corel fonts are hinted,
anyway).  I can deal with converting each font in turn, though this could
almost certainly be automated.  What I can't deal with are rather blatant
bugs in the program.

First, if you try to convert more than one WFN to PFB without quitting
WFNBOSS, chances are the later files (I don't know which, probably the PFM)
will be confused.  So you have to convert a font, quit, reload, convert the
next, and so on.

Second, the PFMs created by WFNBOSS put the full font name in the Family
field, so that each weight of the font gets its own heading in the printer
menu.  I've tried editing that field, and usually it works, but sometimes
it screws up the PFM.  I don't know why it's erratic.

Third, the PFMs are not always accurate.  I converted Ottawa into Type 1
format, and when I use it in Word there is a large gap below the decenders
before the next line; the font height is wrong somewhere.  The other
weights of the font came out fine.

Oh, well.  Maybe if we gripe we can get these things fixed...
and it works fine up to a point.  The fonts produced are not completely
unusable, just less convenient than Adobe fonts.



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Jason Merrill					jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu