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From: ho@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Alex Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Symbol-Bold for Apple LaserWriter
Keywords: Adobe
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Date: 4 Aug 88 22:28:36 GMT
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In article <9677@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
>In article <15054@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>>The Apple LaserWriter II NT[X] does not print the symbol font in bold type.
>>Is there an Adobe downloadable font for symbol-bold and symbol-italic
>>or are there any other solutions?
>
>Better be more specific on your System configuration, BUT I just tried
>it on a Mac Plus, System 5.0, Microsoft Word 3.01, and you're right.
>At least what it does print doesn't look bold.  Looks the same as plain
>print except the spacing is quite messed up.  Anyone have a clue?
>
>Ken
>
i seem to remember reading somewhere in adobe's literature that
bold, italic, or italic-bold variants of symbol just don't exist. i guess
that their logic is that people just don't need to embolden symbols. :-)

alex
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alex ho
university of california, berkeley             ho@svax.cs.cornell.edu     
a lost eecs major (spending the summer at)     cornell university