Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.system:6783 comp.sys.mac.programmer:25423 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!widener!ukma!memstvx1!utkcs2!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ulrik!math.uio.no!espen From: espen@math.uio.no (Espen J. Vestre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: TrueTypes and Bitmaps together? Message-ID: <1991Jun3.125152.9527@ulrik.uio.no> Date: 3 Jun 91 12:51:52 GMT Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Organization: Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Oslo Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: ma-mac32.uio.no References:<1991May29.100330.3042@ulrik.uio.no> In article draphsor@elaine39.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) writes: > Well, not precisely. It means that to get good-looking screen fonts, you > have to download a neat little program from sumex-aim called bitfont. > You can then use this program to create italicized bitmaps in your > favorite sizes from the TrueType fonts themselves. However, make sure > you remove the bitmaps from your system before doing this, or bitfont > also will find the bitmaps first. After you've created your italicized > bitfonts, you can replace both bitmap fonts. > > Thanks go to Chang.P.Woo@mac.dartmouth.edu for pointing out that you > have to remove the bitmapped 'straight' version before making the italic > version using bitfont. Thanks alot! But, I decided to save disk space and rather live with somewhat ugly fonts, so I removed all the bitmapped versions of the TrueType fonts... But then - Helvetica Narrow (which I thought was acting ok again after being unusable in systems 6.0.4-6.0.7) strikes again!!! When I select a size of Helvetica which I also have a Helvetica Narrow bitmap font for, Helvetica Narrow shows up on the screen! Could someone please finally explain me what's wrong with Helvetica Narrow??? ----------------------------------------- Espen J. Vestre Department of Mathematics University of Oslo P.o. Box 1053 Blindern N-0316 OSLO 3 NORWAY espen@math.uio.no -----------------------------------------