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From: martin@m2.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Changing resident font name
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Date: 17 Jun 89 14:42:14 GMT
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I am using a TI OmniLaser 2106 with a Macintosh.  One of the resident
fonts is named improperly.  While the Mac generates
Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique, the resident font name is
Helvetica-Condensed-BoldObl.  The Narrow/Condensed problem was easy
enough to fix by modifying the FOND resource but the
BoldOblique/BoldObl problem is a little more difficult since the
Omnilaser uses Bold and Oblique seperately but combines them as
BoldObl, he Mac font system can't handle it.  My current solution is
to execute the following code (from page 98 of the Red Book):

/Helvetica-Condensed-BoldObl findfont
dup length dict /newdict exch def
 {1 index /FID ne
   {newdict 3 1 roll put}
   {pop pop}
  ifelse
 } forall

/Helvetica-Condensed-BoldOblique definefont pop

This creates a new copy of the font and then defines it with my new
name.  Is this the best way to do this?  Is it taking up too much
memory? I'm on my second day with the Red and Blue Books, I'd
appreciate any advice.


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