User Guide

has a hard disk. The LaserWriter IIf and IIg do not store
the font cache on the hard disk, so it is merely necessary
to restart these printers.
What is the difference between Type 1 and Type 3
PostScript fonts?
Type 1 fonts are smaller, faster to print, better looking,
and work with ATM. However, Type 1 characters must
be entirely black. Type 3, on the other hand, can have
grayscale fills and strokes and other special effects. Type
3 fonts are bigger, slower, look worse in very small point
sizes and at low resolutions (up to 600 dpi) and don’t
work with ATM. About 99% of the time, you will want to
create Type 1 fonts.
I need to exactly duplicate a font, with just a few
changes to a few characters in that font. When I use
Fontographer to “Open font” and get the outlines of the
characters of the font I want to duplicate, I find that the
resulting font doesn’t have any of its characters kerned
like the original. What should I do?
Choose “Import” from the File menu and then select its
submenu “Metrics” to import the kerning pairs from the
original font’s AFM or PFM file or bitmap file.
Sometimes when I generate PostScript files with
Fontographer, then look at those files in a Finder
window “by Name,” I see that the document type for
those files contains the name of one of my other
PostScript fonts. Why does this happen and what can I
do about it?
Weird and wonderful are the ways in which the
Macintosh Finder gets the information it shows you in
the “by Name” view. We have found that if you wish to
avoid this problem, always generate your PostScript files
into a closed folder. If you have a lot of files that already
have this problem and you’d like to fix them, you can use
ResEdit or DiskTop to set the “Bundle” bit on each file, or
you can use the public domain “BundAid” program to set
them all at once. After having set the bundle bits, be sure
to rebuild your desktop file by restarting your computer and
then holding down the Option and Command keys until you
see a dialog that asks you if you want to rebuild your
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