#Adobe NFNTs?
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WHEN YOU SAY READS….
Have you tried creating a postScript file to disk for your problem fonts?
That is, taking a sample document in the affected font and holding down the
Command-F key combo immediately after clicking OK in the Print Dialog. This
will give you the application's PostScript code for the page, accessable with
any text editor. Then you can try Command-K (in the same manner) to get a
PostScript file that INCLUDES the Apple Laser Prep info.
If either of these files are missing the prpoer font names/identification,
it may help narrow the problem to the application or LaserPrep.
-Scott Leyes
I have created the postscript files as you suggested and examined them. All of
the font names are identical in both files. I did notice a difference in
syntax with regards to the style variations which didn't print.
Declaration of the plain face:
/FULLNAME(Helvetica Condensed Light) READONLY DEF
for the style variation (a NFNT):
/FULLNAME(Helvetica.Condensed Light Oblique) READONLY DEF
Note the first space in the name has been replace by a period character.
Unfornutely I have no idea if this is correct or not. It was the most
interesting part, everthing else appeared nice and uniform for each of the font
code sections. The finder copy (command-k) did have the following additional
declaration in it:
True/Helvetica/|________Seattle 1 rf
Again I don't know if that has any significance.
Thanks Jim
Jim,
I've been following this most interesting thread about regrouping your fonts
with NFNT's. Your printing problems are most curious.
You didn't say in what program you created your Command-F file (Xpress?). But I
couldn't figure out how you got the printer font names you listed there. The
PostScript printer font name for Helvetica Condensed Light is
"Helvetica-Condensed-Light". For Helvetica Condensed Light Oblique it is
"Helvetica-Condensed-LightObl". There are no spaces and no periods in the name.
For example, I have just opened Illustrator 88 and created two lines of text,
the first in Helvetica Condensed Light, and the second in Helvetica Condensed
Light Oblique. Here, close to the top of the file, is a portion of the code
when the Apple Print Manager re-encodes these two fonts:
bu fc
{}mark T /Helvetica-Condensed-LightObl /|______Helvetica-Condensed-LightObl 0
rf
bn
1 fz
bu fc
2 F /|______Helvetica-Condensed-LightObl fnt
bn
( )show
…….. [lines missing]
bu fc
{}mark T /Helvetica-Condensed-Light /|______Helvetica-Condensed-Light 0 rf
bn
bu fc
2 F /|______Helvetica-Condensed-Light fnt
bn
( )show
Try a PostScript file from Illustrator and see what you get.
Steve, here is an abbrieviated cut and paste from a postscript file created
by the Illustrator '88 print dialog Command-F option. Even though I know
no postscript code, the fact the %%DocmentFonts is declared as CLB
Helvetica seems odd when the parent of this family is CL Helvetica. The
only other thing I see is the word Oblique is completely spelled out, it
wasn't in your samples.
%%DocumentFonts: Helvetica-Condensed-Black
.. {}mark T /Helvetica-Condensed-Black /|______Helvetica-Condensed-Black 0 rf
.. 2 F /|______Helvetica-Condensed-Black fnt
.. psb %%+ Helvetica-Condensed-LightOblique
.. {}mark T /Helvetica-Condensed-LightOblique bn 2 fs bu fc 2 F
/|______Helvetica-Condensed-LightOblique fnt
.. psb
I am saving this sample file just in case I omitted something pertinent in this
sample. The postscript code in my previous post was generate from Xpress. The
periods and spaces in the file names of that post are direct from the code
generated. There were additional occurances of the font names which also had
spaces in them. Since I don't know PS I am unsure which ones I'm looking for.
Thanks, Jim