From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
Subject: Font formats - help!
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:37:08 GMT

I am trying to work my way through some strangeness involving Windows
and fonts,, and hope some folks who have wrestled TrueType and Adobe
Type Manager to the ground can lend some informed advice.

My setup is a 486 running Win 3.1, with Adobe Type Manager version 1.1,
Corel Draw 3.0, PageMaker 4.0, and a PostScript laser printer.

I have several related questions about fonts in this system:

1) Corel Draw comes with a whole bunch of TrueType fonts, some of wich
are versions of the standard PostScript printer fonts and other
well-known fonts, i.e., Corel's New Brunswick is supposed to equal New
Century Schoolbook, and so forth. Can I rename these TrueType fonts to
match the names of the fonts they approximate? This was simple with the
last version of Corel, but when I changed the font names in WIN.INI, I
got strange results: the fonts were listed with their revised names in
Control Panel, but with the original names in PageMaker and Corel, and
Corel started acting up, giving printing errors and other unexplained
errors. Everything calmed down when I restored the original names in the
WIN.INI listing. Did I miss something? Or are these TrueType fonts not
renameable that way?

2) In the [PSCRIPT] section of WIN.INI, what do those
"fontname=fontname" listings mean or do? Like, it says
"Arial=Helvetica". This is *not* the [FontSubstitutes] section, I deletd
everything in there. Is this other section performing a similar
function?

3) In PageMaker and WIndows Write, all of my TrueType and ATM fonts are
listed and available, including the PostScript fonts which reside only
in my printer (I do not have, for example, the screen font for New
Century Schoolbook, but it is still listed as available since my printer
has it). In Corel Draw, though, the PostScript printer fonts are *not*
listed and available, except for ones which I happen to have the .pfm
and .pfb files installed for (ATM came with Courier and Times bundled
with it). Why is this? Is it fixable?

4) In Corel Draw, the Corel font Toronto is listed and available, but I
have commented it out of the WIN.INI listing. Corel says this font is a
.wfn font, which is the type Corel used to provide but abandoned after
version 2.0. I didn't install this .wfn font, at least not knowingly;
why is it there? How do I remove it? Do I have any reason to keep the
.wfn fonts on my system?

5) In Write and PM4, I have both Times and Tms Rmn listed as available
PostScript fonts. Times, as I said, came with ATM, so I have both the
screen and printer versions installed and want it available. Tms Rmn,
though, seems to be simply the identical font that is resident in
PostScript printers. SInce I don't have the screen font for it, I would
like to have it not be listed, but rather, have Times be listed as
available and have the printer substitute its built-in Tms Rmn when I
print. How do "de-list" Tms Rmn, since it is not treated as an installed
font by ATM (it is not listed in the ATM Control Panel)?

6) I have the utility ALLTYPE, which will convert all my PostScript
fonts to TrueType. I'm thinking that I have had enough of all this
confusing mixing of formats, and would like to:
  a) convert the ATM fonts for which I have the .pfm and .pfb files to
TrueType;
  b) blow away ATM, since I am annoyed with Adobe over their poor tech
support anyway; and
  c) get Corel Draw and PageMaker and hopefully all other Windows apps
to automatically substitute the appropriate printer PostScript font when
I print with the TrueType version of one. Like, if I print with New
Brunswick (which is New Century incognito), I'd like to have the
printer's built-in NEw Century Schoolbook substituted automatically.
Then I could have all my fonts in one format, but still make use of the
greater printing speed afforded by the built-in PostScript fonts on my
printer.
   Is this plan plausible? Wise or unwise? How would I accomplish it for
Corel Draw (which seems to have its own font-substituting system, I
think), and for all other Windows apps (which follow the substitutions
set up through Control Panel, I think)?


Whew, that's a helluva lotta questions. Any knowledgeable
can offer some tips or advice would be gratefully received. I will
compile any email responses and forward them to anyone who would like to
see them. Postings would also be welcome, since I am sure there are
other people who have puzzled over one or more of these questions.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Paul Botts
prb@chinet.chi.il.us
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)