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From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
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Subject: Re: How do you get rid of the font styles in the font menu?
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Date: 7 Dec 88 14:08:00 GMT
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In article <2763@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian K. Martin, M.D.) writes:
>Hello,
>
>    I finally got myself a LaserWriter NTX, and would like to know how you get
>rid of all the multiple font style names from the font menu without losing
>their functionality. For example, to display the Italic Helvetica font on
>screen, I have to select the "I Helvetica" font. I'd rather select the plain
>Helvetica font, then select the Italic style from the menu. That way, my
>font menu wouldn't be cluttered with "I Helvetica", "B Helvetica" etc.
>
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>Brian K. Martin, M.D.
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Well a messy manual way to do this is available,it involves meesing with
names in the fond and font resources.  I'll post the details later if you
really want.  This method has the added problem of not working in some
programs which go ahead and display the "hidden" names anyway.

The best technique I know right now is to get suitcaseII.  It comes with
a utility called font harmony which among other things will convert font
families into proper nfonts.

The nice thing is that the nfonts seem to work correctly in all apps that
i've tried.  Also, when using font/da mover you now see all the stylized
versions grouped with their base font, but represented in the appropriate
style in the font list.  (ie for bold helvetica 12 you see "helvetica 12"
but in bolded chicago).

One note,  I recently got a free nfont-maker utility that was posted by
olduvai software.  It unfortunately was unable to work on font families
that had been previously mucked about in the way discussed in the first
paragraaph.  Font Harmony, on the other hand, worked quite well.

Josh  (standard disclaimer --- Steve Brecher is a god.)


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