Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!jmerrill From: jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Generic User) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Using ATM with other fonts Message-ID: Date: 22 Dec 90 11:49:07 GMT References: <79713501DRJ@MSU> Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Organization: M.Y.T.H. Inc. Lines: 39 In-reply-to: 13501DRJ@MSU.BITNET's message of 22 Dec 90 00:41:07 GMT In article <79713501DRJ@MSU> 13501DRJ@MSU.BITNET writes: >Has anyone found a utility that will convert fonts from Compugraphic, >Bitstream, etc... to Adobe Type 1 so that only 1 font manager has to be used >at a time? I'm going to see if Corel Draw v2.0 can produce Type 1 fonts that >ATM can use tomorrow, I hope... I just got the Corel update today and was trying that. Here are my results: Overall, it works. Somewhat. The problem is in WFNBOSS, which has never seemed to me to be a well-polished product... I can deal with not having hints (I doubt the Corel fonts are hinted, anyway). I can deal with converting each font in turn, though this could almost certainly be automated. What I can't deal with are rather blatant bugs in the program. First, if you try to convert more than one WFN to PFB without quitting WFNBOSS, chances are the later files (I don't know which, probably the PFM) will be confused. So you have to convert a font, quit, reload, convert the next, and so on. Second, the PFMs created by WFNBOSS put the full font name in the Family field, so that each weight of the font gets its own heading in the printer menu. I've tried editing that field, and usually it works, but sometimes it screws up the PFM. I don't know why it's erratic. Third, the PFMs are not always accurate. I converted Ottawa into Type 1 format, and when I use it in Word there is a large gap below the decenders before the next line; the font height is wrong somewhere. The other weights of the font came out fine. Oh, well. Maybe if we gripe we can get these things fixed... and it works fine up to a point. The fonts produced are not completely unusable, just less convenient than Adobe fonts. -- Jason Merrill jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu