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- From: elmi@rrz.de (Elmar K. Bins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: Font s are not WYSIWYG (HELP: they look like refugees from MS Windows!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.140537.10278@rrz.de>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:05:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.112044.1404@tkymail.sps.mot.com>
- Sender: elmi@rrz.de
- Organization: Rhein-Rechenzentrum GmbH, Koblenz, Germany
- Lines: 63
-
- Hello Michael,
-
- In article <1992Dec15.112044.1404@tkymail.sps.mot.com>
- mshaler@tdocad.sps.mot.com (Michael Shaler) writes:
- ] I'm very confused about things:
- ]
- ] 1. Why do Palatino and other families--Architect, Bodoni, etc.
- ] generally look like road-kill on the screen?
-
- Might be they're not really NeXT-fonts (that is, with bitmapped screen
- fonts included), or screen resolution doesn't suit.
-
- ] 2. Furthermore, some fonts (Palatino Roman 12) show up on-screen
- ] as Helvetica!!
-
- This could mean that there are screen fonts for Palatino-Roman (thus the
- restriction to one damaged size), which is misinstalled. Removing and
- re-installing the complete typeface should help in most cases (we had
- similar troubles here and fixed 'em that way --- maybe we were lucky,
- though).
-
- ]
- ] Things get stranger when it's time to print.
- ] 1. When I print to a remote Apple NTX-J over NFS, things work.
-
- Uses printer fonts.
-
- ] 2. When I print to a local NeXT color printer, I get Courier!!
-
- Uses NeXT-fonts ;-) , since the NeXT does all the rendering; the printer
- is only a laser printer engine with no PS interpreter. The fonts installed
- on your NeXT are being used for the printout as well. Since there seem to
- be something wrong with them, the printout shows up erroneous.
-
- ] 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.
-
- ??? Might be a type 3 font, but why doesn't it work on the printer if it
- does on screen ???
-
- ]
- ] 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?
-
- Try re-installing one of the mentioned fonts and do steps 1-5 again. Maybe
- it'll help a bit.
-
-
- Hope this helps, Elmi.
-
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