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From: jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: bold-face Symbol on LaserWriter
Message-ID: <426@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Feb 89 11:41:03 GMT
Reply-To: jrk@s1.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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When I try to print bold-face Symbol characters on the LaserWriter, they
always come out as plain.  This happens in all applications.  Is there any
way to print bold-face Symbol on the LaserWriter?

System 4.3, LaserWriter 5.1.

Some further details:

I have run a postscript program on the LaserWriter (hereafter: LW)
immediately after turning it on, to see what fonts it actually has.  For
some fonts, e.g. Times, the LW contains a separate description of a
Times-Bold font, which it uses to print bold-face Times.  But there is no
bold-face version of Symbol.  However, downloaded bitmap fonts can be
printed in boldface, which the LW does by "blurring" the characters.  Is
there any way to persuade the LW to do this to the Symbol font as well?
Strangely, the LW has no difficulty printing italic Symbol, even though it
does not have a Symbol-Italic font - it just applies a shear to the plain
Symbol font.

There is a workaround: make a copy of the Macintosh Symbol font, and give
it a different font name and id.  Then both the Macintosh and the LW think
it is just an ordinary bit-map font, which the LW prints boldface by
blurring.  (If anyone else wants to do this, a hint: the print quality will
be best if you dont make any size larger than 12-point of a "Symbol bits"
font.)

However, I would rather have PostScript quality.  Any ideas?
-- 
Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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