Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:23527 comp.lang.postscript:1224 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!pool From: pool@blake.acs.washington.edu (Jonathan Pool) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Creating Overlay Fonts Using Fontographer Keywords: Fonts, Laserwriter, Postscript Message-ID: <330@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 2 Dec 88 17:07:00 GMT References: <14403@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Reply-To: pool@blake.acs.washington.edu (Jonathan Pool) Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 15 I called Altsys with the same question and they told me it was absolutely impossible to do, unless one has the bitmap fonts for the nonroman LW fonts. But I tried just editing the name of the PS base font, which appears once near the end of the downloadable font file's data fork. This worked. So it is definitely possible. How to make it easy and elegant I don't yet know, but my guess is that one should manufacture bold, italic, etc. bitmap fonts with FONTastic Plus based on the Roman bitmap font that is furnished; then edit the FOND style mapping table (APDA sells the book "Apple LaserWriter Reference", which explains the format of this table) to identify the bitmap and PostScript fonts in the family, and then use Fontographer to edit the bold etc. fonts as one normally would. Altsys also told me that the information about this (alleged) impossibility, which should have been in the Fontographer manual, is instead in the manual for another Altsys product, Keymaster.