Postscript Type I Fonts

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Jules Meisler

I am trying to install some Postscript Type I fonts that I had under a
folder "psfonts" from my other computer which used Windows 98. I don't know
how I was able to load them on the other computer. This computer uses XP
and does not recognize them when they are just copied.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.
 
Windows XP can use PostScript Type 1 fonts.
To prepare for installing the fonts, place the files for the fonts in an
accessible directory. For example, create a directory called
c:\PostScriptFonts. It is best not to create this directory inside of the
Windows directory. There should be two or three files for each font. Either
a *.pfb and a *.pfm file or a *.pfb, an *.afm and an *.inf file. Place all
of them in the directory. Next, add them using Control Panel Fonts File
Install New Font.

Windows XP will not install the fonts unless the files conform to the file
format standard for the particular type of font. There are some fonts
available in the Internet that do not. Some are bad conversions from fonts
originally issued for the Mac and converted for the PC.


Let us know.
 
If you were using PostScript Type 1 fonts with Windows 98,

either

you had Adobe Type Manager installed and had used that to install the fonts
{ATM Lite is a free download from Adobe.com.}

or you were using a PostScript printer or a printer with a PostScript
interpreter and had a program to download the PS files to the printer either
before printing or on the fly.

Of the two, the first is by far the most common way to do it now.



With Windows XP, you can use ATM to install the fonts if you have it
installed on Windows XP. However, Windows XP has "native support" for
PostScript Type 1 fonts using execuatables supplied by Adobe to Microsoft.
 
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