Howdy - Occasionally I purchase TrueType fonts from myfonts.com I found them back when I needed to do something in polytonic greek and Linux (at least my distro's) did not have unicode font that supported the polytonic greek character set. Anyway - Palatino Linotype was what I purchased for that and it works well. Since then I have purchased a few others - Helvetica (one of my favorite fonts that ships with Mac OS) etc. Today they sent me some marketing stuff and I bit, and I purchased a really nice looking cursive font called shimmer - http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bluevinyl/shimmer/ It is a cursive font - and has both a regular and a bold typeface. However - unlike the various ms core web fonts with multiple typefaces, this one shows up as two separate entries in the font menus, and I'd like to know why - and if that can easily changed so that only one typeface is available. Here is a screen shot of the font in AbiWord action: http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/shimmer.png As you can see - selecting "bold" in AbiWord doesn't seem to change a thing. My understanding was that there were four typefaces a font could have - plain, italic, bold, bold-italic. If there were ttf files for each - then you would get excellent results when using bold/italic/etc. If there are not ttf files for each, the ttf engine would try to emulate the bold/italic effect - which sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. With shimmer, selecting "bold" doesn't select the bold typeface, or try to emulate it. I have not tested this font in Winblows or Mac OS to see the behavior there - but it would be nice imho if selecting "bold" used the bold font, and one didn't have to select the bold version of the font separately. Unfortunately I can not distribute the ttf font for testing since I am not rich enough to license the fedora list for its use ;) But here is (I think) the relative information: [mpeters@devel purchased]$ grep "shim" fonts.dir SHIMB___.TTF -macromedia-shimmer bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 SHIMB___.TTF -macromedia-shimmer bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 SHIMB___.TTF -macromedia-shimmer bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 SHIMB___.TTF -macromedia-shimmer bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 SHIMMER_.TTF -macromedia-shimmer-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 SHIMMER_.TTF -macromedia-shimmer-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 SHIMMER_.TTF -macromedia-shimmer-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 SHIMMER_.TTF -macromedia-shimmer-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 [mpeters@devel purchased]$ grep "shim" fonts.scale SHIMB___.TTF -macromedia-shimmer bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 SHIMB___.TTF -macromedia-shimmer bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 SHIMB___.TTF -macromedia-shimmer bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 SHIMB___.TTF -macromedia-shimmer bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 SHIMMER_.TTF -macromedia-shimmer-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 SHIMMER_.TTF -macromedia-shimmer-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 SHIMMER_.TTF -macromedia-shimmer-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 SHIMMER_.TTF -macromedia-shimmer-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 [mpeters@devel purchased]$ -- Cheap Linux CD's - http://mpeters.us/linux/
