Users who have created a bitmapped font (with Fontographer) and installed it in
their system, then designed a spline (printer) font and written it in
PostScript have asked:
What can be done so the Macintosh application will automatically download
the font to LaserWriter Plus when using the screen font.
When both the bitmapped (screen) font and the spline (printer) font have been
designed in Fontographer, there are two methods of downloading available:
1. Many Macintosh applications will automatically download fonts to the
printer as they are needed. Whenever such a program needs a font that is not
already in the printer, it searches the Macintosh disk drives for a file
containing that font and downloads it. The font files must be in the current
folder, the root directory, or the system folder of the startup disk. They
may also be on an on-line server, if one is available. When automatically
downloaded, a font is deleted at the finish of the document for which it was
chosen (or, for PageMaker, at the finish of the text block.)
2. You can also download fonts to the printer manually, using the font
downloading program supplied with Fontographer. When manually downloaded, a
font remains in the printer, ready to be used, until you turn the printer
off.
CAUTION: For most applications, four to six fonts can be
downloaded to the printer before it runs out of memory. The
actual number depends on the particular printer, applications
and fonts you are using. (The LaserWriter IINTX with expanded
memory provides more than described) If the fonts sent to the
printer, both manually and automatically, exceed the printer's
capacity, the printer will restart itself, ejecting a startup
page and erasing all the downloaded fonts.
If some method other than Fontographer is used to generate the PostScript
spline (printer) font, it is likely that the screen font and the printer font
will not properly bond to one another.
Fontographer provides the proper bonding that is required for screen and
printer fonts. If it is possible to open the PostScript printer file with
Fontographer, Fontographer should then be able to generate the properly bonded
screen and printer font files.