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part. So you cannot choose Helvetica-Bold as the bold style
in the Nova family; you must choose a font whose name
starts with Nova.
When you name your font in Fontographer’s Font
Information dialog (which appears when you select “Font
Info” from the Element menu), you have to be sure to name
each font properly. This means you need to make sure the
Family Name text box has the same name in it for all the
styles of the family you’re building. This is important to
remember for making families on all platforms.
Families: Windows,SUN, NeXTSTEP
Making the family name the same is all you need to do to
create a font family for Windows, NeXTSTEP and SUN
environments. For more information about these systems,
see Chapter 7, “Generating and Exporting Fonts.”
Font families on the Macintosh
If your font is a logo typeface or one that contains special
symbols, you probably don’t need to make a family of fonts.
In fact, many people use Fontographer to make only one
version of a typeface. In these cases, family information is
not important. But if you are ambitious, and have made
more than one member of a font family, you can use Style
Mergerto bring those styles together into a family of
Macintosh typefaces.
Making a Macintosh font family requires using Style
Merger, a Macromedia utility that comes with your
Fontographer 4.1 package. Style Merger takes styled
Macintosh screen fonts and merges them into one
Macintosh screen font family. Macintosh font family
relationships are coordinated by special resources located in
the screen font suitcases. Style Merger will work with both
PostScript and TrueType fonts. It never affects any fonts or
font files already on your computer; it simply reads existing
fonts and creates a new file containing a family.
This allows you to quickly and easily build a family
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