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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How do I make a font?
Keywords: font Adobe
Message-ID: <310@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 2 Nov 90 00:02:15 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.191027.11276@engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <1990Oct31.191027.11276@engin.umich.edu> telfeyan@caen.engin.umich.edu (Roland Telfeyan) writes:
>Could someone at NeXT or Adobe or wherever please tell me how to make a
>font for the NeXT?  I asked questions of ask_next@next.com, and got no
>satisfaction.  Is it practical to hand-code the thing?

Somewhat practical, although you're probably better off with an application.

>I have called Altsys, and they say that Fontographer outputs type 3 font
>files but that the NeXT needs type 1.  Altsys said that their new
>version of Fontographer (3.1) will output type 1 fonts but that NeXT's
>type 1 isn't standard--they're having trouble with the high 128
>characters.

This is a bit of misinformation from the people at Altsys.  The NeXT works
fine with Type 3 fonts, but not those generated by the current version
of Fontographer because of some funny things they do with memory management.
They can be modified to work on the NeXT, though; I've done it.

It's also not true that NeXT's type 1 isn't standard; it's Adobe PostScript,
which is the standard for type 1 fonts (by definition).

It is true that Fontographer fonts don't work quite right on the NeXT, but
the fault is more theirs than NeXT's.

/Glenn

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