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Re: fontname name for Caslon Book BE?



At 12:30 AM 98/01/31 +0000, Rebecca and Rowland wrote:
>I've tried to find out what this might be, and it seems that Karl Berry has
>not defined a name for this fount (and relatives):
>
>251_300/295/QXB_____.AFM CaslonBookBE-Bold
>251_300/295/QXI_____.AFM CaslonBookBE-Italic
>251_300/295/QXM_____.AFM CaslonBookBE-Medium
>251_300/295/QXRG____.AFM CaslonBookBE-Regular
>251_300/296/QXBOF___.AFM CaslonBookBE-BoldOsF
>251_300/296/QXBXP___.AFM CaslonBookBE-BoldExp
>251_300/296/QXIOF___.AFM CaslonBookBE-ItalicOsF
>251_300/296/QXIXP___.AFM CaslonBookBE-ItalicExp
>251_300/296/QXMSC___.AFM CaslonBookBE-MediumSC
>251_300/296/QXMXP___.AFM CaslonBookBE-MediumExp
>251_300/296/QXRGX___.AFM CaslonBookBE-RegularExp
>251_300/296/QXSC____.AFM CaslonBookBE-RegularSC

You have a problem here.  These are Caslon faces by the some
foundry with abbrreviation BE (presumably you know who that is
given that you have the fonts.  You can't assume that they are the
same as the printer resident Adobe Calson.  Not even in metrics.  
So you need to make up new names.  You know what I would do :-) 
I would use the names QXB, QXI, QXM, QXRG, ....

Looking on just the Adobe TOC 4.1 CD, I found some of the following:

Or maybe the 5+3+3... contracted PS FontNames

Found 4 lines with R-E "FontName" in 051_100\053\*.inf

051_100\053\cfi_____	FontName	(CaslonFiveForty-Italic)
051_100\053\cfr_____	FontName	(CaslonFiveForty-Roman)
051_100\053\cti_____	FontName	(CaslonThree-Italic)
051_100\053\ctr_____	FontName	(CaslonThree-Roman)

051_100\072\ca______	FontName	(CaslonOpenFace)

151_200\157\c2bi____	FontName	(CaslonTwoTwentyFour-BoldIt)
151_200\157\c2bli___	FontName	(CaslonTwoTwentyFour-BlackIt)
151_200\157\c2bl____	FontName	(CaslonTwoTwentyFour-Black)
151_200\157\c2b_____	FontName	(CaslonTwoTwentyFour-Bold)
151_200\157\c2mi____	FontName	(CaslonTwoTwentyFour-MediumIt)
151_200\157\c2m_____	FontName	(CaslonTwoTwentyFour-Medium)
151_200\157\c2wi____	FontName	(CaslonTwoTwentyFour-BookIt)
151_200\157\c2w_____	FontName	(CaslonTwoTwentyFour-Book)

151_200\180\awbi____	FontName	(ACaslon-BoldItalic)
151_200\180\awb_____	FontName	(ACaslon-Bold)
151_200\180\awi_____	FontName	(ACaslon-Italic)
151_200\180\awrg____	FontName	(ACaslon-Regular)
151_200\180\awsbi___	FontName	(ACaslon-SemiboldItalic)
151_200\180\awsb____	FontName	(ACaslon-Semibold)

151_200\181\awabi___	FontName	(ACaslon-AltBoldItalic)
151_200\181\awab____	FontName	(ACaslon-AltBold)
151_200\181\awai____	FontName	(ACaslon-AltItalic)
151_200\181\awarg___	FontName	(ACaslon-AltRegular)
151_200\181\awasb___	FontName	(ACaslon-AltSemibold)
151_200\181\awasi___	FontName	(ACaslon-AltSemiboldItalic)
151_200\181\awbio___	FontName	(ACaslon-BoldItalicOsF)
151_200\181\awbos___	FontName	(ACaslon-BoldOsF)
151_200\181\awio____	FontName	(ACaslon-ItalicOsF)
151_200\181\awor____	FontName	(ACaslon-Ornaments)
151_200\181\awsbs___	FontName	(ACaslon-SemiboldSC)
151_200\181\awsc____	FontName	(ACaslon-RegularSC)
151_200\181\awsis___	FontName	(ACaslon-SemiboldItalicOsF)
151_200\181\awssb___	FontName	(ACaslon-SwashSemiboldItalic)
151_200\181\awswb___	FontName	(ACaslon-SwashBoldItalic)
151_200\181\awswi___	FontName	(ACaslon-SwashItalic)
151_200\181\axbi____	FontName	(ACaslonExp-BoldItalic)
151_200\181\axb_____	FontName	(ACaslonExp-Bold)
151_200\181\axi_____	FontName	(ACaslonExp-Italic)
151_200\181\axrg____	FontName	(ACaslonExp-Regular)
151_200\181\axsbi___	FontName	(ACaslonExp-SemiboldItalic)
151_200\181\axsb____	FontName	(ACaslonExp-Semibold)

201_250\241\cfiof___.inf: FontName (CaslonFiveForty-ItalicOsF)
201_250\241\cfrsc___.inf: FontName (CaslonFiveForty-RomanSC)
201_250\241\ctiof___.inf: FontName (CaslonThree-ItalicOsF)
201_250\241\ctrsc___.inf: FontName (CaslonThree-RomanSC)

251_300\295\qxb_____	FontName	(CaslonBookBE-Bold)
251_300\295\qxi_____	FontName	(CaslonBookBE-Italic)
251_300\295\qxm_____	FontName	(CaslonBookBE-Medium)
251_300\295\qxrg____	FontName	(CaslonBookBE-Regular)

And there are more.  Suddenly the crazy idea of using those short names
does not seem quite so crazy anymore :-)  For one thing, I don't have to
wait for someone to assign a new name...

Regards, Berthold.

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, MA		mailto:bkph@ai.mit.edu