On 03/20/2008, Don Ferguson wrote:
> Greetings "Bart Mathias" < mathias%40hawaii.edu">mathias
hawaii.edu>
> On 20/03/2008 at 21:42 you wrote concerning
> [PageStreamSupport] Re: Font problems
>
>;
> [...]
>> Now back to the PageStream screen, as I go on, step by step (and if I
>> crash, YAM will probably keep this record of progress):
>
> You're jiving me again! Why would dear old Yam do that? That's a Snoopy
> task.
>
>
>>> [...]
>
>> (Thank you, YAM!)
>
> Apparently YAM cooperated!?!?!?!?
Indeed! I left the YAM "Write message:" window open as I went through your
instructions, which naturally crashed OS4 at some point. When I rebooted,
YAM had, as is its kindly wont, preserved the file, and offered to put it
in Outgoing for me, where I could continue editing it. But you knew that,
and apparently thought I was talking about something else (Snoopy doesn't
save files, does he?)
[...]
>>>; I have under "Installed Font Drawers":
>>>
>>;> DH0_OS40Final:Fonts
>>> Fonts/Intellifonts
>>>; Fonts/ProPage
>>> Fonts/SoftLogikFonts
>>> Fonts/StandardFonts
>>> Fonts/StudioFonts
>
>> Slightly(?) different here:
>
>> Apps:PageStream5/Fonts/Bitstream Vera
>;> Apps:PageStream5/Fonts/DejaVu
>> Apps:PageStream5/Fonts/Gentium102
>> Apps:PageStream5/Fonts/MgOpen
>> Fonts/Intellifonts
>>>; Fonts/SoftLogikFonts
>>> Fonts/StandardFonts
>>> Fonts/StudioFonts
>
> The above is the list of "Installed Font Drawers" that appears when you
> are using PageStream4?
Yes. I had to copy it out by hand (I guess there is a program that will let
you copy just ANYthing with a mouse, but I don't have it installed) from
PageStream4 -> System Preferences -> ...
> At first I could not figure out where those PageStream5 font familes,
> listed above, came from, but now I see. I did download the .lha file
>; 'PageStreamFonts.lha' and, although there is corrupt data therein,
> Unarc revealed the directories you list above; i.e., the "Apps:' ones.
> Each file therein ends in the suffix '.ttf' which must surely indicates
> 'TrueType Font'. So you can use those guys in PageStream5 but I'm
> guessing that they will only confuse PageStream4.
Apparently not. You have seen Michael Merkel's comment, and Russell
Butler's. From what Michael says, it sounds like I should maybe add
fonts:_TrueType, and fonts:_GhostScript (but they are .afm and .pfb
things) here). I don't seem to have fonts:_PostScript_Type1.
One thing that has me a bit uneasy: In fonts:_truetype I find, e.g.,
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf 472732 ----rw-d 19-Dec-06
in contrast with Apps:pagestream5/fonts/dejavu/'s
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf 125208 ----rwed 30-Mar-06
That's a considerable size difference!
>[...]
>; Sys:Fonts/Bitstream Vera Sans Bold.font
> Sys:Fonts/Bitstream Vera Sans Bold.otag
>
> ... Looked in the Pagestream4
> manual to see what it says about fonts but without an index I did not
> find anything. So I put those two files (immediately above) into a
> directory
>
> PageStream:Fonts/Bitstream/
>
> and then added that drawer as one of the "Installed Font Drawers" in
> the "Set Font" window. Did not work! PageStream4 did NOT come up with
>; something like "Bitstream Vera Sans Bold" in its "Set Font" window, but
> those 'bad' fonts "DejaVu Sans Condensed-t" and "DejaVu Serif
> Condensed-tf" still appear and I cannot chase them away even though the
> font drawer that they resided in 'Sys:Fonts' has been removed from the
> list of "Installed Font Drawers"!?!?!?
Sounds kind of spooky to me. BWDIK?
> Oh well, the fonts in
> Fonts/Intellifonts
> Fonts/SoftLogikFonts
> Fonts/StandardFonts
> Fonts/StudioFonts
> constitute an adequate collection here. But in the PageStream5 Pro
> versions of the future, will they be useable? Hmmmm!
My Fonts/StudioFonts are .afm/.pfb jobbies. But apparently movistar [sic]
didn't crash me.
>> But I don't think that matters, since we get pretty much the same
>;> results. Except I wonder if I should install OS4:Fonts, or would that
>;> just get me more things that crash?
>
> I suspect you mean 'Sys:Fonts' and if that was your intent, then I
> suspect it will only add to your problems, certainly if you are
> thinking of using PageStream4.
OS4:fonts = Sys:Fonts = fonts:
The next question is, if I do (try to) add that to Installed Font Drawers,
should I remove the PgS5 versions?
Computers is hard. Even Amigas!
Bart
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