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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: bold-face Symbol on LaserWriter
Message-ID: <3607@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 18:52:11 GMT
References: <426@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Reply-To: bill@astro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Organization: UT AUSTIN Astronomy Department/McDonald Observatory
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In article <426@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@s1.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:
#
#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?
#
The original LaserWriter had the boldface symbol font, but the upgraded
version did not (they replaced that part of the ROM with more 
sophisticated program, I believe). We discovered this early on
as we were among the first to get the upgraded ROMs. We were told
that Apple never said BF Symbol was supported.

I get around this by overprinting a symbol with the same symbol
shifted one point to the right (using the overprint feature of
Word). Kludgy, doesn't really look that great. The only really
satisfactory solution, I think, is to buy a symbol font that has
boldface, and to download it into the LW when needed.

Bill Jefferys

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