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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
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Date: 2 Dec 88 17:07:00 GMT
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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.