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Automatic Font Changes With Different Charact
DocumentID: 650374
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:28:59 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: Customer is inquiring about AFCs when using Bitstream soft fonts. The customer converted his 5.0 printer file to 5.1 which had Bitstream soft fonts. When he created Bitstream fonts, he used two different character sets, but did not create all of the fonts possible in both sets (i.e., Roman 10 pt PC-8, Roman-8, and Roman 10pt Italic only in the Roman-8 set). He wants to know why he cannot get Roman 10pt in italic when using the PC-8 character set. Solutions: The problem with creating fonts in different character sets, but
not necessarily creating all the different attributes (italic, bold, etc...) for each font in all character sets, is a problem due to WP selecting the AFC for each individual font. WP, when selecting AFCs for each font, looks for the closest match for that font. This means that it will choose fonts that are accessing the same character sets. You can force WP to use a font from a different character set using the PTR Program. One way to do this is to go into the actual Font, then go into the option for AFC, go to the attribute such as italic, press Enter, then select the italic font that you wish to use regardless of what character set the font is currently using.

Another option would be to go into SFC (Substitute Font Change), instead of AFC, and mark the fonts according to priority that you want WP to look to for. This is for when WP cannot find, for instance, the italics attribute in the font that is currently selected; WP will then go to the second choice you chose as a SFC in the PTR program.

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