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From: FLEGLEI@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: How is the font outline name determined?
Message-ID: <91120.214438FLEGLEI@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Date: 1 May 91 01:44:37 GMT
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Here's my layperson's understanding of how this works.
You create a font using, for example, Fontographer. You name the font
something with at least five letters in it & possibly a specifier after
it (TimesRoman, TimesItalic, GoudyExtraBoldItalicExtended, whatever).
This name is encoded (possibly encrypted in Type 1) into the font.
You give the bitmap screen font a number ranging from 1 to 32767 (in the
NFNT system), depending on who you are & what numbers are reserved for you by
Apple & Adobe. You give the PostScript printer font a number, whose range
I don't know, nor do I know how the number is calculated. The font name
is truncated to five letters followed by series of three letters (GoudyRoman
becomes GoudyRom, IshkabbibbleBoldExtended becomes IshkaBolExt, etc.). Each
of these names and numbers is linked somehow. This maybe is what is needed
to be known by the original poster.
 
From what I understand, PageMaker version 4 uses the font's numbers as
indicated in the system to access fonts; this method is unreliable due to
id number conflicts and other reasons. QuarkXPress apparently usees the
name of the font, eliminating many conflicts.
 
The easiest way to change all of this is to buy & use Fontographer
& open the font then save as under a new name with new id numbers if
necessary.
 
Sorry this is an expensive ($250) solution, but it's the most reliable
and easiest.
 
Glenn Fleishman, Yale University Printing Service
glenn_fleishman@yccatsmtp.ycc.yale.edu