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From: piggy@tubopal.UUCP (Piggysoft)
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Subject: Re: PS font files
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Date: 12 Dec 89 16:57:43 GMT
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In article <1517@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) writes:

>I'm sure this has been asked before, but could someone tell me where
>in a FONT or FOND resource the printer font file name is stored?
>I can't seem to find it.

The FOND resources containes the PostScript /findfont name of a
font. 

From this the name of the downloadable font file is constructed.
Five letters from the beginning of the name, three from any
subsequent portion of the name. 

Expl:
	Palatino 		Palat
	Palatino-Roman		PalatRom
	Palatino-Bold-Italic	PalatBolIta


If you need references to the "official" documentation send me a note.

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