Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Font Harmony (was: NFNT & Adobe screen fonts use?)
Message-ID: <5105@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 14:37:10 GMT
References: <10101@venera.isi.edu> <UZBDqyy00Uh_A2MYcu@andrew.cmu.edu> <23053@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
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In article <23053@cup.portal.com> MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes:
>mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) writes:
>
>>It will take your screen font files and, when used in collusion with
>>Font/DA Mover 3.8, will merge styled faces into a single typeface
>>family.
...
>Font Harmony (*not* Harmonizer, btw) has to make educated guesses
>during a merge in some cases; sometimes the result can be confusing.
>
>Around here we stick with Adobe's scheme and use 'B Helvetica Bold'
>rather than spec-ing Helvetica and then adding the bold attribute.

Good advice. If you harmonize the fonts IDs on your system, you
make them *unique* to your system. This is a problem if you ever
want to take your files to another system, such as your local
Lino service. Of course, using an application that uses the names
rather than the IDs avoids the problem altogether, but not very
many programs do that (e.g., Word *still* doesn't, while QuarkXpress
does).

Regarding shortened menus, the only program I've seen that does
this is Smart Art. That is, it displays only the root name
(Helvetica, etc.) and pops up a sub-menu for the variations
(incl. semi-bold, black, etc.). I'm anxiously waiting for
everyone else to catch up. (In other words, harmonizing your
fonts has no effect on the font menus.)


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