User Guide

characters mapped to decimal 0-31, they won’t be output to
the PC with Symbol encoding, nor will anything in Dec 127
(delete) or Dec 160 (non-breaking space).
When Symbol encoding is selected, sequential character
ordering should also be used. All other TrueType
preferences do apply.
Important: Be sure to select “Decorative” from the PC
Family pop-up in the Advanced Generate Font Files dialog
for your Symbol encoding to work.
PostScript Type 3
This option has become a relic. We include it for those one
or two folks who are using older applications which may
require it. The instructions for using Type 3 fonts are very
similar to the Type 1 discussion. The only additional note is
that you will have to provide a bitmap screen font for the
application. You can start with our BDF format and use
some conversion tool in DOS to make it into a usable format.
NeXT and Sun PostScript fonts
Whether you are running NEXT-STEP on a sleek, black,
discontinued slab, or a 486 machine, your NeXT Type 1
PostScript fonts will behave similarly. For that matter, using
your Sun fonts on a SPARCStation requires very similar
font generation. Both formats generate only two files: the
AFM and the PostScript file. The AFM (Adobe Font
Metrics) contains the metrics information. The Post-Script
file—the one with the “.next” or “.sun” extension—is a text
file which contains a small header followed by the
encrypted PostScript routines. The difference in the files for
the two operating systems is indeed small.
The naming conventions required for both platforms are the
same. Always insert a hyphen between the family name
and style type (this is highly recommended for all
platforms). Thus, the italicized face from the Nova family
will be “Nova-Oblique.” If you get this correct, then all the
fonts should line right up by their lineage.
Unless you really need the special features of the
Advanced mode, you are better off keeping to the Easy
Fontographer User's Manual
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