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From: jln@eecs.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Symbol-Bold for Apple LaserWriter
Message-ID: <10330013@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 88 00:47:39 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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> 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?

I just encountered the same problem last week, and discovered the following
solution:

1. Use ResEdit to copy the Symbol FONT resources from your System file to
   some other new file.  DON'T copy the Symbol FOND resource.
2. Use FONT/DA mover to copy these fonts to a new suitcase file.  This
   will build a new FOND resource.  Don't forget to hold down the OPTION
   key when you open the file.
3. Use ResEdit to change the name of the new FOND resource to Sym (or
   whatever you wish, just change the name to something other than Symbol).
4. Use FONT/DA mover again to copy the new Sym font into your System file.

You now have a new font called Sym.  It looks just like Symbol on
your screen, and prints bold properly on LaserWriters.

I'm not an expert on fonts and LaserWriters, and I don't completely
understand why this works, but it does.  It is important that you build
a new FOND.  I tried just making an exact copy of Symbol and renaming it,
but this didn't work.

What's happening here is that we're fooling the LaserWriter into thinking
that it doesn't have a built-in copy of the font, so it gets a bit-mapped
copy from the Mac.  This makes bolding work.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University

jln@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu