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In the Easy Generate Font Files dialog, you have five simple
decisions to make.
1. Select the computer for which you are preparing the
font.
2. Determine the format (PostScript or TrueType).
3. Choose the bitmap sizes—if any.
4. Set the folder into which you want the font files
saved.
5. Decide whether you want to overwrite existing files
with the same name.
Fontographer will then decide the sticky issues; for instance,
if an AFM file should be generated for the NeXT fonts
(yes), or which encoding to select for Sun fonts (ISO Latin
1), or even how to set up the em square for Windows
TrueType fonts (2,048).
This is all the information necessary to use the Easy mode.
The rest of this chapter covers the more complicated stuff
which appears in the Advanced mode.
Macintosh fonts
Macintosh fonts require two particular font resources: the
outline font and the FOND. In the case of PostScript fonts,
these font resources are in separate files. For TrueType
fonts, the two resources exist in the same file. This section
will deal with the “How to” issue of generating the font
resources. Much more information on how to make use of
the fonts once they’re generated will be covered in Chapter
9, “Installing and Removing Fonts.”
PostScript Type 1
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