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From: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: FontMonger conversion to TrueType
Keywords: FontMonger, TrueType, Garamond
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Date: 21 May 91 12:36:58 GMT
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Organization: General Electric Research & Development
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I just bought FontMonger, an application which can convert fonts among
PostScript Type 1, Type 3 and TrueType formats.  It has the proverbial
"user interface from Hell" and generally useless documentation, but
nevertheless it DOES do the job of converting Adobe Type 1 PS fonts
to TrueType.  (very slowly!)

Although I'm moderately satisfied with the result, there are a couple
of puzzles about the TT fonts that I got as the output.  For instance,
the TT Garamond light doesn't look nearly as good on the screen at
12 points as did the PS1 version running with ATM 2.0.  For large
sizes (24 pts or more), the results look pretty much the same, and all
sizes seem to print decently.  I wonder why the TT screen rendering is
so lousy?

The other puzzle concerns the behavior of MS Word 4.0b.  (This is
under System 7.0, BTW)  Because I didn't like the look of the rendered
TT Garamond fonts at 12 points, I decided to install the 12-point screen font.
I did this by dragging the appropriate bitmap into the System File.
When I brought up Word again and tried to type, I got some really
bizarre behavior.  The cursor insisted on staying at about a 72-point
size.  Each time I typed a character, the cursor moved to the right 
about an inch or more, but nothing was typed on the screen except
the "highlight" color.  It was as it I selected a bunch of blanks -- just
the highlight color but no characters.  Removing the bitmapped font
restored normal behavior.

I've heard rumors of a new version of MS Word that works better with TT.
Is the behavior I've described a known problem with 4.0b?  Anyone from
Microsoft want to comment?

Thanks!
-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com