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From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Rich Carreiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: FastFonts (was Re: Windows/Fonts)
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Date: 29 Jan 89 23:05:08 GMT
References: <6080.AA6080@heimat> <671@intvax.UUCP> <430@madnix.UUCP>
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In article <430@madnix.UUCP> perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) writes:

>In short, FF (every version ever released I believe) contains a bug in which
>the font flag bits are incorrectly tested to see if a given font is ok to use.
>The net effect is that a lot of fonts which are ok to use cannot be used.

You might want to try using FED on some fonts.  I have no idea if this
works in general.  My specific case was:

I wanted to use clean.font that comes with SONIX.  I copied clean.font and
the clean directory and its contents to FONTS:  I then ran ff clean.font

It said that the font was not fixed-width.  I then ran FED on the font.
It was most certainly fixed-width, but I saved the font back again.
When I ran FF again, it worked.

I don't know if loading and then saving a font with FED will work in general,
though you might want to try.

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