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From: marshall@cs.arizona.edu (Ron D. Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: GEOS Font Questions
Summary: Here's a simple solution
Message-ID: <812@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 19:10:02 GMT
References: <91038.001412XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <91038.001412XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET>, XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET writes:
> Can anyone tell me why my geoPublish program fails to recognize several fonts
> that come in the FONTPACK Plus package.
> 
> I have massaged these fonts with the font editor that came with the package;
> trying to change ID numbers and such, but I just can't get them to work in
> geoPublish.

GeoPublish crams a lot into the C-64 memory and doesn't leave much room to 
store large font tables.  The font/point sizes you are trying are too big
for the font buffer so GeoPublish chooses not to recognize them at all. One
easy solution is to make a copy of the desired font and delete infrequently
used characters (like | { } and \) from the font with geoFont.   You may have
to delete other characters as well if the font is much too large for the 
buffer.  Now GeoPublish should work just fine.  Note that this is only a 
problem in graphics and master pages modes.  The word processor files should
be able to use any normal (not mega) fonts just fine.

--Ron.
(marshall@caslon.cs.arizona.edu)