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From: dorsai@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Gregory D. Moncreaff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: New PS fonts on cica...
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Date: 25 Jan 91 23:26:55 GMT
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In article <2102@inews.intel.com> wwitt@adara.intel.com () writes:
>Hi,
>
>A little while ago I discovered a ZIP file which contains 36 Type 1
>PostScript fonts on cica. The last time I checked, this file, 36psfont.zip
>I believe it's called, was still sitting in the uploads directory.
>
>Anyway, I installed all of the fonts and tried them out. WARNING! The 
>Eurostile font appears to be corrupt. After I tried to type some text
>in that font, ATM got very confused. Switching back to other fonts no
>longer worked reliably. I had to restart Windows to get things back to
>normal. Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?
>
>In addition to the flaky Eurostile font, all versions of the Eras typeface
>and one other font (can't remember the name at the moment, sorry) appear
>to have no space character. Does anyone know of an easy way to fix this?
>Is it possible to massage the metric files to give a space some width
>greater than zero? If I seem ignorant here, it's because I am. I don't
>know what the representation format for Adobe Type 1 fonts is. Maybe
>someone could enlighten me?
>
 i also had some strange problems with these fonts: i just recently aquired
ATM ( yesterday, just after i dloaded the 36... fonts from cica ) and installed
it. i also installed all the '36...' fonts as well. to check out the fonts
i poped open WfW, updated the printer driver, and then began to play. i typed
a few lines in the document, selected them. and then repeatedly changed the 
font and pointsize of the fonts. needless to say things got very confused.
the selection of text became garbled, ie parts of characters in irregularly
spaced rectangular regions were updated while the rest stayed in the prior
font. attempts to reselect the range of text only added to the confusion.
finally, i just deleted the document and tried typing things in fresh. for 
some reason there was no discernable character output, i would just get regular
spaced vertical line segments that seemed to be of hieght proportional to the
point size of the font. 

 i think i had ATM set up correctly, i had read pretty thorougly through what
little documantation there was. has any experienced person downloaded these
fonts and found similar problems?....