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From: andwi@majestix.liu.se (Andreas Wickberg)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How do I get postscript fonts onto my Mac (repost)
Message-ID: <1210@majestix.liu.se>
Date: 9 Mar 89 01:39:46 GMT
References: <352@muvms1.bitnet>
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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In article <352@muvms1.bitnet> mcguffey@muvms1.bitnet (Michael McGuffey) writes:
>Where/How do we get the Mac to know about these fonts (particularly the
>Illus 88 software)

You should use FontSizer (from ?). I nice little program that produces
large versions of PostScript fonts. FS uses the printer to render the
characters at apropriate size, between 4-127 points.
   FS is kind of stupid, you must have a Mac screen font allready. You
can take any font and rename it (with ResEdit) to be the name you want,
It will work if the fonts have the same set of -Roman/-Bold.. styles.
   The fonts produced at small sizes (< 20 pt) will not look very
good.  Remember that a 20 point screen font is 20 pixels high, ie a
laserfont at 20*72/300 = 5 points. But you can use them at least.  And
if you work with Illustrator you will usally want 72 point or larger
characters, and they look great. To go from the usual 24 points to 96
is a kick. I wish I had Display PostScript...

I have only used FS (a beta release) for a few samples. It seems as if
Illustrator have some problem with large fonts, the character width
isn't handled properly.  But its better then nothing. Which you get if
you use really large fonts (>120?). A bug in Illustrator? Or in FS?

						Andreas