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Tables of Contents for How to Boss Your Fonts Around
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Introduction The Purpose
Quick Check Which System are you running?
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Part I Font Technology
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1 Printers: PostScript or QuickDraw
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Why should you care?
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PostScript Printers
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PostScript-compatible printers
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Non-PostScript printers (QuickDraw)
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How do you know if your printer is PostScript or QuickDraw?
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2 Typeface, family, and font
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Typeface
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Family
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Simple and complex families
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Font
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3 Bitmapped fonts and screen fonts
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Installed sizes
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What screen font icons look like
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4 City-named fonts
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Printing to a non-PostScript printer
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Printing non-city-named fonts to a PostScript printer
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Printing city-named fonts to a PostScript printer
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Don't print city-named fonts to an imagesetter (at a service bureau)
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City-named fonts with ATM
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When to use city-named fonts
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PostScript fonts
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Outline fonts
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Scalable fonts
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PostScript Types
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Type 1 fonts
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Type 2 fonts
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Type 3 fonts
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Fonts on the Web
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Surf the Web with city-named fonts
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Print non-city-named fonts
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Specify city-named fonts
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Screen and printer fonts
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Screen fonts
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Why do you need screen fonts?
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Printer fonts
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Resident and downloadable fonts
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Resident fonts
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Downloadable fonts
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6 Downloading the downloadables
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Automatic downloading on PostScript printers
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Options for auto-downloading
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Should you manually download?
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Manual downloading
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Permanent downloading
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7 Adobe Type Manager (ATM)
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How ATM works
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But why...?
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ATM vs. installed screen sizes
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ATM with non-PostScript printers
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ATM with resident fonts
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Is ATM already installed?
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ATM Deluxe vs. regular
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What's the difference?
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Read the "Read Me" file
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The ATM control panel
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Illustrated
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On or Off
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Character Cache Size or Font Cache
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Preserve
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Smooth Font Edges on Screen
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Precision Character Positioning
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Enable Auto-activation
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Enable Font Substitution
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Font emulation
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8 TrueType fonts
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TrueType icons
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TrueType screen fonts?
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How do you tell TrueType screen fonts?
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Advantages of TrueType
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Disadvantages of TrueType
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TrueType and PostScript together
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Yeah, so what if they have the same name?
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What if the printer font is not in the ROM?
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9 So should you use PostScript or TrueType?
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PostScript or TrueType?
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Suggestions
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If you have a QuickDraw printer
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If you have a PostScript printer
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If you use a service bureau
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Part II Installing Fonts
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10 Installing fonts
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Should you use a font management utility?
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Is a font management utility already installed?
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How many and which fonts are already installed?
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Installing fonts into the System
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Before you install
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Installing screen fonts
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Installing TrueType
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Installing PostScript fonts
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Installing outline printer fonts
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After you install
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Don't install AFM or .fog files
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Where did the files go?
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The process, visually
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Part III Font Management
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11 How to organize your fonts
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First: Make sure you know these things Before you begin
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Next: Clean up the fonts in your System Folder
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Clean up
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Assumptions!
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Step 1: Make new folders
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Step 2: Move your fonts to the Temporary Font Storage folder
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Selectively and purposefully return some fonts
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Step 3: Put some fonts back into the Fonts folder in the System Folder
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Check 'em out first
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Then: Organize your TrueType fonts Step 4: Separate the TrueType fonts from the PostScript fonts
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OK, now: Organize the rest of your fonts Step 5: Do the big job
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Keep families together
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Start with the easy stuff--move families into the family folders
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Making new suitcases: when, why, and how
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Combine family members into one suitcase, where appropriate
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When not to combine fonts into one suitcase
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Congratulate yourself! The finished product
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12 How to manage your fonts
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So what does a font management utility do for you?
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What are your choices?
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The advantage of sets
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How do you use a font management utility?
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Manage your fonts with Adobe Type Manager Deluxe
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Using the ATM Deluxe windows
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Drag-and-drop
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Sets and fonts
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Other tips
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ATM Deluxe Preferences
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Manage your fonts with Suitcase
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What is Suitcase?
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Versions of Suitcase
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Suitcase, the old version
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Opening Suitcase
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Can't find Suitcase?
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Creating and using sets
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For more help with Suitcase
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Create a Font ID file
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Manage your fonts with MasterJuggler
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What you can do in MasterJuggler
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The MasterJuggler menu
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Making sets in MasterJuggler
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Opening and closing font files
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Viewing fonts in MasterJuggler
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Making and using Hot Keys
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Gather fonts for remote viewing or printing
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Manage your fonts with Font Reserve
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I should've told you...
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The Font Reserve browser window
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Experiment
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Add fonts to the vault
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Font Reserve Preferences
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Preview any font
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Gather fonts for remote viewing or printing
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13 How to manage your font menu
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TypeTamer
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The TypeTamer menu
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Special features of TypeTamer
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WYSIWYG Menus
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MenuFonts
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Adobe Type Reunion Deluxe
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The ATR Deluxe control panel
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14 Problems with fonts
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Font ID conflicts
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What are font ID conflicts?
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How do you avoid font ID conflicts?
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Avoiding conflicts of name
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Merged fonts
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Merged fonts in the menu
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Advantages and disadvantages of merged fonts
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Hierarchical menu is not merged
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So what to do?
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Corrupt fonts
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How to tell if a font is corrupt
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What to do about it
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15 Printing fonts at a service bureau
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What is a service bureau?
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Take your fonts to the service bureau How do you take your fonts to the service bureau?
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16 A few extra font utilities for you
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Key Caps
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PopChar Lite
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PopChar Pro
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KeyCap
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FontView
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TypeIndexer
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FontBook
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FontLoupe
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Part IV Useful Information
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17 Help!!!
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18 Useful tricks with Fontographer
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19 Acquiring fonts
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Type vendors
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Fonts on CD-ROM
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Fonts online
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What you buy
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Font vendors
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Web sites you must visit
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20 Vendors of font products
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Part V Glossary
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Part VI Index
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