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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NFNT family names...clarification...
Message-ID: <38059@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 90 02:06:34 GMT
References: <1990Jan24.001341.3232@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Jan24.001341.3232@athena.mit.edu>, shahn@hstbme.mit.edu (Samuel Hahn) writes:
> A while back, I posted a message asking how to change the annoying family
> names of the Adobe Postscript NFNT's.  Thanks to everyone who responded that
> I should use Font Harmony/NFNT 1.0 BUT let me clarify...
> 
> What I want to do is change the NFNT family name for an already merged family.
> For instance, in the UNIVERS font family, there are several NFNT families,
> Univers 55, L Univers 45 Light, C Univers Condensed, etc.  Each one of these
> fonts is considered its own "NFNT" with its own substyles (ie bold, italic,
> etc.). 
> 
> My question is how do I change L Univers 45 Light to just "Univers Light"?
> I've tried sing ResEdit to change the NFNT name, and it seems to work, BUT
> it also seems to leave a copy of the "old" name available so BOTH the 
> original name AND the new name appear in the font menus...

I've been meaning to do this for a while, so I just did it. There's a trick.

First, open up the NFNT. On my suitcase, there were no names attached. If
yours has names, fix them.

Next, open up the FOND. Change the names to what you want them to look like
(mine now say, for instance, "Univers L45 Light" since some Font menus
sometimes truncate -- so you cans till see which one you're choosing). Make
sure they match the anmes in the NFNT, if any.

Finally, select the FONT resource, then do an "open general" from the File
menu of Resedit. If you just double-click, it won't show you the zero point
FONT resources, which is what you need to modify.

use "Get Info" on each of the zero point FONT resources, making sure the
name you use is the same as the name in the FOND.

Clsoe and save. Do this on a COPY. Inspect it with Suitcase (or whatever)
and it should now only have the new names.


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