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From: briand@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe bitmaps
Message-ID: <4273@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 17:04:27 GMT
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Reply-To: briand@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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>Now that Adobe has finally switched over to shipping their
>fonts in NFNT format, I thought many problems would be solved.
>
>Then someone told me that the bitmap files that Adobe is
>shipping still contain a FOND resource for each styled
>font.  (See Technote #198.  This is labeled as the WRONG
>way to do it...  There should only be one FOND for the
>font family).

Yes, Adobe does this. They do it, I believe, for a couple of
reasons - one, it gives you a choice because it isn't that
difficult to remove the extra FONDs, and two, because they
have some very complex font families, with many more weights
than just roman and bold.

I agree with you, this is the WRONG way to do it. The PostScript
alliance is distributing them without the extra FONDs.

However, all you have to do is to use ResEdit to delete the
extra FOND resources. Nothing more than that.

-- 
-Brian Diehm
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