Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lotus!lotus.com!robertk From: robertk@rkrajewski.lotus.com (Robert Krajewski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Unified Postscript Fonts {Was: Neat Idea for a System Extension} Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 17:01:00 GMT References: <1991Jun7.101930.28539@athena.cs.uga.edu> Sender: news@lotus.com Organization: Lotus Development Corporation Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: fore@athena.cs.uga.edu's message of 7 Jun 91 10:19:30 GMT In article <1991Jun7.101930.28539@athena.cs.uga.edu> fore@athena.cs.uga.edu (Howard Fore) writes: Then the laser fonts were divided further into one each for Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, and Roman (Book) faces. Now there is TrueType and Adobe's latest creation, Multiple Master (is this really any good?). Adobe fixed some of the problem with their TypeReunion (a truely awesome INIT, oops, system extension). As soon as you buy the Adobe Plus Pack, you're going to run into font menu clutter. Adobe will happily sell you Type Reunion, which pretty much does what it's supposed to, but it can't work on font menus that appear as list boxes, or use other non-standard presentations. The real solution is to fix the problem at its source. There is a way to unify the description of a Macintosh Type 1 font so that the family variations do not appear in the enumerated list of fonts to begin with. Some vendors unify their fonts in this manner, but Adobe doesn't. I have Gill Sans and Perpetua from Monotype; the former is not unified but the latter is. Anyway, I would be very grateful if there was a utility out there that performed this unification once and for all. Do such a beast exist ?