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Subject:Re: Font Management in Windows From:Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> To:bfrankli -at- apcc -dot- com Date:Sat, 12 Feb 2000 01:59:12 -0500
Unfortunately, the subject is a moving target, changing with each new
version of Windows. The best place I have found to resolve _specific_
questions (i.e., say exactly what version, service pack, etc., of
Windows, what version of ATM, what application, what font or fonts--full
name and manufacturer--you are working with) is the Usenet newsgroup
comp.fonts. There are some major experts who hang out there and can
generally give you accurate answers. If PDF files are involved in the
question, try comp.text.pdf, and you can also try the newsgroup for
whatever application you are dealing with.
bfrankli -at- apcc -dot- com wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a good resource (book, magazine article) for font
> management in Windows? We have so many problems with ps fonts on our
> machines and we have been researching this for a long time, but it doesn't
> seem like anyone knows how Windows handles fonts or how ATM interacts with
> Windows. I just need basic information. We seem to be bumping into so many
> walls with this problem. I'd like to find a book like Robin William's "How
> to Boss Your Fonts Around" for WIndows. I'd definitely go back to the Mac
> if the IS department would let me, but I don't think that they would go for
> that.
>
