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From: a_dent@vaxa.uwa.oz (Andy Dent, ph: 09 380 2620)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How do you tell a laser font?
Message-ID: <38@vaxa.uwa.oz>
Date: 12 May 89 03:02:10 GMT
References: <1796@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: University of Western Australia
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In article <1796@husc6.harvard.edu>, hellerst@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (
Joe Hellerstein) writes:
> Short of a visit to the friendly neighborhood laserwriter, how does one
> ascertain whether a given font has info. built in to make it nice
> and smooth on the laser writer?  Anything involved in making sure the
> font gets downloaded to the LWII besides having it installed in the System
> (using 6.0.2)?

About a month ago, two FREE Varityper  DA'S were posted to comp.mac.binaries
FontWizard and (I think) FontManager?.  Anyway, one of these gives you a map
of all the currently installed fonts, with ID's,NFNT info and also lets you
know if it's a bitmap or laser font.