#Adobe NFNTs?
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He-He, that was fun with Joliwrite in the late evening!
Your assumption is correct about the suitcases of people I do work for. It seem
unlikely that thier font IDs would match mine completely. Especially with
regards to style variations. I'm not quite sure how these are maintained in
the individual documents is it 'ID 128 + bold' or 'ID 129' (which IS a 128 +
bold). It almost seems that if a NFNT merges style variations into the parent
(plain) FOND that those NFNTs wouldn't matter at all. Is that true? I can
understand the incompatability with numbers higher than 255.
Not being one to follow the POPULAR opinion, I use Quark Xpress. It's one of
the people I do work (and troubleshooting) for who use PageMaker. They are
gearing up to provide output service to the outside world. As such they must
support PageMaker, though they use Xpress for thier own in-house stuff. I don't
have quite as many fonts as they do so thier problem is a bit more severe. I
recommended that they get Suitcase II to solve thier current conflict problem
which affects all programs, but the PageMaker thing throws a wrench in the
works. Last I heard PageMaker 3.0.1 was not yet available.
Do you know if the PageMaker incompatablity is due to the styled font names
being removed or is it a numbering limitation? If it is just the names would
they suppression of merging styled fonts have any impact? Since I don't have
PageMaker I have no way of testing it before discussing this with them.
Thanks, Jim
PageMaker 3.0.1 is available — I have a copy through regular update channels
from Aldus.
How fonts are remembered in documents would be a function of the application;
but if you choose the Booful font and Bold from the style menu, it would (if
not PageMaker, which remembers names) have to remember the font number of
Booful and also the bold attribute — for when you open the doc, it knows that
it's bold, as you can unbold it. However, if you choose B Booful Bold, then
all that would be remembered is the font number for B Booful Bold.
The PageMaker 3.0 incompatibility (fixed in 3.0.1) is with font numbers greater
than 511. It has nothing to do with a problem with names.