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From: bpja@munnari.oz (Brett P.J.Adam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hiding bold/italic fonts?
Message-ID: <2249@munnari.oz>
Date: 21 Jul 88 11:15:47 GMT
References: <59015@sun.uucp>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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Careful with all this changing of font names and resource types. I have found that MS-WORD (3.02) produces remarkably different line lengths for type set in the ACTUAL Bold (or other stylistic variation) and a 'boldened' font. I.e. If you choose the bold screen font you get different results from telling word to boldface the roman version. Problem may not be confined to word.

It would seem that what is happening is this:

Use the ACTUAL screen font for the Bold face and all the spacing info is availble to the Mac Font Manager.
Ask for the bold variation and DEPENDING on the software, you may get a CALCULATED bold, not the real thing. I guess it depends on how aware the application is of fonts available. 

I have sample output from word to both a LaserWriter and Linotronic 300, using genuine Adobe fonts, both inbuilt and downloads.
This may not be an issue for some, but to those of us involved in high quality  typesetting applications from the ol' Mac, it is!

Brett Adam		bpja@munnari.oz

{ This knowledge my own - nothing to do with Melb. University }