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Date:	Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:15:15 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS2.INI PM_Font_Drivers ?

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In <41A1713B.5887@peterskye.com>, on 11/21/04
at 08:55 PM, Peter Skye said:

>I do have a 13 MB TTF font in my \OS2\DLL\ directory:

> 3-30-99 6:49p 12892504 0 tnrmt30.ttf

>I wasn't sure where it came from so I ran PMSeek. Turns out it came with
>Java 1.1.8.

It was the first Unicode font released by IBM.

>But my Font Palette doesn't
>see it, at least by that name. Hmm, might it have a "long name"?

Don't all fonts have a long name?

I
>opened it in EPM but didn't see any obvious "long name" in the file.

What about:

Times New Roman MT 30
RegularMonotype - Times New Roman MT 30

and the others?

>Is there a way to look inside this file and see what fonts it contains?

This is another benefit of FontFolder installing your copy of FontFolder.
I can probably assume you bought it sometime in the past without too much
chance of being wrong.

>I could install it but I don't remember how to uninstall a font file.

Need to the Add button is the Delete button.

>The TTF files may optionally contain target platform information which
>the TTF renderer may use; Type 1 instead relies on the renderer to make
>intelligent decisions irrespective of target platform.

It hard to say who knows the target platform better. The font designer or
the rendering software which runs on the platform.

>Many years ago I was going to purchase the PostScript developer specs
>until Adobe told me the book cost $1500. I don't recall if that included
>font renderer algorithms.

Times change. The postscript document spec is a free download. I've
never tried to hunt down the font spec.

Steven

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