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Pete It's relatively simple. Call up CreateFont, and select ITCZapfChancery.dat as your source … select your destination directory (CreateFont will make up its own name) … and off you go. You will end up with ZapfChancery-MediumItalic.psfont which POST should recognise if it's in CGfonts:PS (the search logic is held within init.ps, so it's possible to change it). Provided that your PostScript code then looks for the font called ZapfChancery-MediumItalic, all should be well (I just ran through the process, and it works for me). However, if you're using a very early version of PPage's CGfonts, then you won't have the .dat file … and you're sunk. This little file contains the name of the lib file, the font's reference ID, the full name of the font, the name of the character mapping file and the style details of the font (for referencing the metric file). On the other hand, I wonder why you'd rather use POST for this … PPage's CGfont/dot-matrix output will give _very_ much better quality output as the PostScript font you create is a Type-3 and has no hinting in it (and can be relatievly crude in appearance) whereas the original CGfont will output with full hinting through the dot-matrix driver. Mike (from the UK)

The message from Mike Todd explains it well…just make sure you have the latest version of CreateFont. It is available in the WP/DTP library here on CS. One thing Mike didn't mention is that the fonts MUST be installed in an assigned CGFonts directory before creating the PS download. If you have PPage installed, this shouldn't be a worry. Philip Laitar Supervisor