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- From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
- Subject: Font madness - help!
- Message-ID: <C03tyv.Lvv@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:35:18 GMT
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- I am trying to work my way through some strangeness involving Windows
- and fonts,, and hope some folks who have wrestled TrueType and Adobe
- Type Manager to the ground can lend some informed advice.
-
- My setup is a 486 running Win 3.1, with Adobe Type Manager version 1.1,
- Corel Draw 3.0, PageMaker 4.0, and a PostScript laser printer.
-
- I have several related questions about fonts in this system:
-
- 1) Corel Draw comes with a whole bunch of TrueType fonts, some of wich
- are versions of the standard PostScript printer fonts and other
- well-known fonts, i.e., Corel's New Brunswick is supposed to equal New
- Century Schoolbook, and so forth. Can I rename these TrueType fonts to
- match the names of the fonts they approximate? This was simple with the
- last version of Corel, but when I changed the font names in WIN.INI, I
- got strange results: the fonts were listed with their revised names in
- Control Panel, but with the original names in PageMaker and Corel, and
- Corel started acting up, giving printing errors and other unexplained
- errors. Everything calmed down when I restored the original names in the
- WIN.INI listing. Did I miss something? Or are these TrueType fonts not
- renameable that way?
-
- 2) In the [PSCRIPT] section of WIN.INI, what do those
- "fontname=fontname" listings mean or do? Like, it says
- "Arial=Helvetica". This is *not* the [FontSubstitutes] section, I deletd
- everything in there. Is this other section performing a similar
- function?
-
- 3) In PageMaker and WIndows Write, all of my TrueType and ATM fonts are
- listed and available, including the PostScript fonts which reside only
- in my printer (I do not have, for example, the screen font for New
- Century Schoolbook, but it is still listed as available since my printer
- has it). In Corel Draw, though, the PostScript printer fonts are *not*
- listed and available, except for ones which I happen to have the .pfm
- and .pfb files installed for (ATM came with Courier and Times bundled
- with it). Why is this? Is it fixable?
-
- 4) In Corel Draw, the Corel font Toronto is listed and available, but I
- have commented it out of the WIN.INI listing. Corel says this font is a
- .wfn font, which is the type Corel used to provide but abandoned after
- version 2.0. I didn't install this .wfn font, at least not knowingly;
- why is it there? How do I remove it? Do I have any reason to keep the
- .wfn fonts on my system?
-
- 5) In Write and PM4, I have both Times and Tms Rmn listed as available
- PostScript fonts. Times, as I said, came with ATM, so I have both the
- screen and printer versions installed and want it available. Tms Rmn,
- though, seems to be simply the identical font that is resident in
- PostScript printers. SInce I don't have the screen font for it, I would
- like to have it not be listed, but rather, have Times be listed as
- available and have the printer substitute its built-in Tms Rmn when I
- print. How do "de-list" Tms Rmn, since it is not treated as an installed
- font by ATM (it is not listed in the ATM Control Panel)?
-
- 6) I have the utility ALLTYPE, which will convert all my PostScript
- fonts to TrueType. I'm thinking that I have had enough of all this
- confusing mixing of formats, and would like to:
- a) convert the ATM fonts for which I have the .pfm and .pfb files to
- TrueType;
- b) blow away ATM, since I am annoyed with Adobe over their poor tech
- support anyway; and
- c) get Corel Draw and PageMaker and hopefully all other Windows apps
- to automatically substitute the appropriate printer PostScript font when
- I print with the TrueType version of one. Like, if I print with New
- Brunswick (which is New Century incognito), I'd like to have the
- printer's built-in NEw Century Schoolbook substituted automatically.
- Then I could have all my fonts in one format, but still make use of the
- greater printing speed afforded by the built-in PostScript fonts on my
- printer.
- Is this plan plausible? Wise or unwise? How would I accomplish it for
- Corel Draw (which seems to have its own font-substituting system, I
- think), and for all other Windows apps (which follow the substitutions
- set up through Control Panel, I think)?
-
-
- Whew, that's a helluva lotta questions. Any knowledgeable
- can offer some tips or advice would be gratefully received. I will
- compile any email responses and forward them to anyone who would like to
- see them. Postings would also be welcome, since I am sure there are
- other people who have puzzled over one or more of these questions.
-
- THANKS IN ADVANCE!
-
- Paul Botts
- prb@chinet.chi.il.us
-