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Install a PostScript Font in PlanetPress Design

The set of Postscript fonts available in PlanetPress Design is the combination of those available in the PlanetPress Design Fonts subfolder of the Windows Common Files folder (in a default installation, the path of this subfolder is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Objectif Lune\PlanetPress Suite X\Fonts) and those available in the PPD file selected for the document.

To install a PostScript font in PlanetPress Design:

  1. Verify the font is ready for installation. If the PostScript font files exist on a CD-ROM and are read-only, you must copy them to the hard disk and clear the read-only property of the hard disk copies before you can install the font in PlanetPress Design. You should provide the .pfb file for each PostScript font you install in PlanetPress Design.
  2. Verify there is an appropriate TrueType font in Windows that you can use to represent the PostScript font on-screen. Ideally, you should install the TrueType version of the PostScript Type 1 font.
  3. Choose Tools | Install PostScript Font. The Install a PostScript Font in PlanetPress Design dialog box appears.
  4. Select the font you want to install.
    Font name: Select a font or click the Browse button to navigate to the file and select it.
    Font name info: Displays information about the font selected in the Font name box.
  5. Select the TrueType font you want to associate with this PostScript font. Note that you can later edit this selection.
    TrueType font to represent this font: Select the TrueType font you want PlanetPress Design to use to represent this PostScript font on-screen. If the TrueType version of this PostScript font is not installed, select the TrueType font that most closely resembles it. When you select a TrueType font, the Glyphs available in TrueType font box updates to contain all the glyphs in the selected TrueType font. The Glyphs list also updates to display each of the glyphs in the PostScript font, with their corresponding glyph in the selected TrueType font. Note that this association between a TrueType font and a PostScript font is local to the computer on which PlanetPress Design is currently running and that the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool Configuration program does not let you make such associations between fonts.
  6. If necessary or of interest, click Preview to display a PDF file of the complete character set of the selected PostScript font and its default encoding. Exit this file to return to the Install a PostScript Font in PlanetPress Design dialog box.
  7. In the Glyphs list, verify the correct TrueType glyph is associated with each PostScript glyph, and use the Glyphs available in TrueType font box to edit any that are incorrect.
  8. Click OK. PlanetPress Design copies the font files to the Fonts subfolder, and updates its font lists to make the font available from PlanetPress Design.

To change the TrueType glyph associated with a PostScript glyph:

  1. In the Glyphs list, select the glyph correspondence you want to edit.
  2. In the Glyphs available in TrueType font box, edit the glyph correspondence. Glyphs available in TrueType font: Select the TrueType glyph you want to associate with the PostScript glyph currently selected in the Glyphs list. When you select a glyph, PlanetPress Design immediately updates the Glyphs list to reflect the new correspondence.

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