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From: msurlich@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ( scheme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Laserwriter SC fonts
Message-ID: <649@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 3 Oct 88 15:33:02 GMT
References: <1209@zippy.eecs.umich.edu>
Reply-To: m_urlichs@msn.rmi.de (Matthias Urlichs - scheme)
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W - Germany
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In article <1209@zippy.eecs.umich.edu> spencer@crim.eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
>
>Also, now that Apple provides the NFNT mechanism for "styled" fonts,
>does anyone know of bitmaps for "bold" and "italics" fonts (real ones,
>not just slanted versions of the regular fonts).
>

Apple provides the NFNT mechanism since the Mac Plus ROMs.
However, Apple failed to provide a Font/DA Mover (until 3.8, that is)
which actually recognizes NFNTs and enabled you to install them.
I tried to fool around with FOND resources myself, but it's non-trivial.

3.8 still is buggy, however; it seems that if non-styled fonts also are
stored as NFNT F/DAM says "serious error 15" (something like that)
after deinstalling them. Also, there's a pretty unreasonable limit of
how many font families you can have in one font file.
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