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From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe bitmaps
Message-ID: <5058@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 23:18:39 GMT
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Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
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In article <14827@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
>Now that Adobe has finally switched over to shipping their
>fonts in NFNT format, I thought many problems would be solved.

Well, it cleans up *their* act, and admits the potential for application
manufacturers to clean up theirs. I upgraded to Adobe's new screen fonts
a few weeks ago. Only one of the dozen or so apps I use regularly use
didn't break, and one one broke beyond repair. As for the rest, only
time will tell (Microsoft?).

>
>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).

I didn't check them all (there's 16 diskettes worth, and I didn't install
all of them), but the couple dozen I did check had one FOND per family.
I imagine Adobe was consistent throughout the rest.

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
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