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From: kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Creating a downloadable font
Keywords: Laserwriter, Downloadable Font
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.031059.18052@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 91 03:10:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.225805.9091@cec1.wustl.edu>
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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In article <1991Mar27.225805.9091@cec1.wustl.edu> jyp@wucs1.wustl.edu (Jerome Yvon Plun) writes:

>We have also defined a Mac screen font with the same character mappings;
>this also works fine and we can use it in applications (Microsoft Word,
>Think C, MPW, ...).  Our problem occurs when we try to send the text to
>the printer.  The printer driver does not seem to load the PostScript
>font definition.

You need a FOND for the font.  Deep in the FOND is a set of tables that
control the generation of the Postscript font file name from the style in
use.  The easiest thing to do, if the metrics are compatible with one of
the original fonts, is to copy the FOND and edit the base name.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)