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Subject: Re: LaserWriter Plus Fonts (answer)
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Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 13:39:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 26 13:39:40 1987
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Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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In article <935@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes:
>
>I notice that several people mentioned FOND resources in their messages.
>I know that these are supposed to describe entire font families, but
>otherwise am quite in the dark about them.  From my mail, I am led to
>speculate that the FOND resource id for a particular font family is
>also the Font ID for the family.  Would anyone care to comment further?
>

This is correct; the FOND resource describes a whole family of fonts.  They
are only supported on 128K ROMs.  Inside Macintosh Volume IV explains about
FOND's in more detail.

One use of this is to remove the limit of 256 fonts imposed by the
128*FontID convention.  Another is to allow the system to have different
fonts for different styles.  For example, a FOND resource can specify that
the bold version of a particular family is formed by smearing the plain
font, but that the italic version can be found a separate FONT resource
(rather than slanting the plain version).  The FOND resource also contains
the font width table and character kern table.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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