Re: problem with Courier-BoldOblique

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Which /version of Helvetica?  The version that came with Acrocat 3.0 is
a synthetic font.  The Type 1 spec that I have is the one available on
Adobe ASN web site.  I wonder if there is a newer version floating
around out there that is *not* synthetic.  Hmmmm....

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Just van Rossum wrote:

> At 8:04 AM -0400 19-07-2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> >They are compliant Type 1 fonts.  They are synthetic fonts, and
> >synthetic fonts are described in the Type 1 specification.  Helvetica,
> >as distributed by Adobe (!), is a synthetic font, etc...
> 
> The Adobe Helvetica-Oblique I have here (which came with ATM) just has a
> slanting FontMatrix; it does contain all the CharStrings, so it's a
> perfectly normal T1 font. I also thought sythetic fonts weren't valid Type
> 1 font, as it's a PS trick that copies an existing font, renames it and
> replaces the FontMatrix (or so I thought...). The word "sythetic" doesn't
> appear in my copy of the T1 spec. Do you have a reference?
> 
> Just
> 
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