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From: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ATM Font Families, help
Keywords: atm mac
Message-ID: <2869@mtuni.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 14:26:17 GMT
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Reply-To: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu)
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, NJ, USA
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>What I would like to do is create one suitcase with
>all the fonts, and then get rid of the variation names
>such as Ifontname or BIfontname and just end up with
>the root family font names.

>=    John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Division           =

In Jan 1990, issue of Mac User, there is an article about the problem you
described.  It mentioned one of the solution was to convert all the fonts into
the new NFNT format, and merge them using producks like Font Harmony.

But it mentioned that this does not solve all of the problems.  NFNT format may
merge Times, and Times Italics into one family, it cannot handle different font
weights (such as bold, light bold, heavy bold, etc).  In fact, if you select
bold, there's no telling what weight you will be getting.  This is the fault of
the font manager, so there is currently no solution.  The only exception to this
are software that bypass the font manager and use customize font menu like in
Emerald City's Smart Art, their style menu include different weight as oppose to
the usual menu of just one weight of bold.