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From: terranova@vms.macc.wisc.edu (John Terranova)
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Subject: Re: Problems with Adobe Univers bitmaps
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In article <67036@felix.UUCP>, kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes...

>I was just thinking about buying some fonts. Can someone please tell me what
>NFNT is, and what kind of Mac doesn't support it. Why do you want to turn a
>font into NFNT?  Thanks.

Have you ever noticed how stylized characters do not always (usually?)
look too good?  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to create a new font, say
14 point italic New York, and use it instead of having QuickDraw try to
italicize for you?

So you use a font creation program to create all the stylized fonts you
want.  Guess what.  You will have that many more fonts in your Font menus.
You need a way to tell the Toolbox to use your stylized font instead of
stylizing on the fly.  Just like using different sizes of a font.  Each
size does not appear in the font menu.

Enter NFNTs.  This resource allows you to group fonts into families.
New York fonts of all sizes and styles can be grouped together.  Now,
just like QuickDraw will use New York 20pt if available in the system,
QuickDraw will use New York 20pt italic bold, if it is available in the
system.

>Shirley Kehr

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