Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!cloos From: cloos@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Symbol-Bold for Apple LaserWriter Keywords: Adobe Message-ID: <5785@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 4 Aug 88 23:51:32 GMT References: <15054@santra.UUCP> <9677@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <19972@cornell.UUCP> Reply-To: cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Lines: 33 In article <19972@cornell.UUCP> ho@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Alex Ho) writes: |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. :-) It is true that Adobe does not have Bold, Italic and BoldItalic versions of their symbol font, or at the vary least didn't when my font catalog went to print :-), but it is possible the somebody, somewhere has them for a Symbol-esque font. Your other option, if Fontographer--or another Postscript font editor--is not out of the question (financially, etc.) is to create your own. I would recommend that you use the Times family as a guide, as Symbol seems to me to be based on Times more than any other font. -JimC -- batcomputer!cloos@cornell.UUCP |James H. Cloos, Jr.|#include cloos@batcomputer.tn.cornell.EDU|B7 Upson, Cornell U|#include cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.EDU |Ithaca, NY 14853 |"Entropy isn't what cloos@crnlthry.BITNET | +1 607 272 4519 | it used to be."