Just thought i'd write a little how-to for anyone wondering what the "core fonts" are and how to install them on OS4.x (since OWB now defaults to them).
The core fonts are the standard fonts you get with Windows. Things like Arial, Verdana, Impact, etc. A lot of websites assume you have these fonts.
OWB uses them by default, but for IBrowse you have to create a profile for each core font.
IBrowse has it's own font set up instructions Here
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Before you can configure the specific settings, you need to ensure everything is correctly installed. The first part of this process is to download all of the *.afm files from the Adobe Inc. FTP directories:
After downloading the files, they need to be renamed exactly as follows:
com_____.afm as courier.afm cob_____.afm as courier-bold.afm coo_____.afm as courier-oblique.afm cobo____.afm as courier-boldoblique.afm hv______.afm as helvetica.afm hvb_____.afm as helvetica-bold.afm hvo_____.afm as helvetica-oblique.afm hvbo____.afm as helvetica-boldoblique.afm tir_____.afm as times-roman.afm tib_____.afm as times-bold.afm tii_____.afm as times-italic.afm tibi____.afm as times-bolditalic.afm
Once the files have been renamed, they need to be moved to a suitable directory, e.g. SYS:Fonts/PostScript, then IBrowse? needs to be configured to use this directory. To do this, first load IBrowse? and open the settings using Menus ? Preferences ? Settings.... Once the window has opened, go to the Preferences ? HTML ? Fonts section, and click on the For PostScript printing tab. In the AFM (metrics) files section, use the file requester gadget to the right to browse to the directory you chose above, or type directly into the string gadget.
The next stage is to open Menus ? Windows ? Print Manager and configure it as follows:
Just thought i'd write a little how-to for anyone wondering what the "core fonts" are and how to install them on OS4.x (since OWB now defaults to them).
* Run "TypeManager". It can be found the system directory of your boot partition.
* In the destination directory, use the cycle gadget to select your FONTS directory.
* In the source directory, use the popup button and select the directory you extracted all the TTF files to.
* Hit "Select All", then "Install".
And now you should have all the core fonts on your system.
That's not enough! You have to set the families correctly in the 3rd tab in TypeManager. Or use the .font and .otag files from my corefonts.lha instead of creating them yourself, they have the font families set correctly for the freely available core fonts from sourceforge.net. For testing the core fonts run OWB in a shell, go to http://strohmayer.org/corefonts.html and check that there are no font related problems reported by OWB.
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