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Originally Posted by b1hgaa88  ... It is called "DCRTimes" (for "diacritical Times") and I always assumed it to be a bitmap. However, my FontExplorerX tells me it is a Type 1 Postscript, and that the printer font is missing.
On my old slot-loading iMac booted directly into OS 9.2.2, or running Panther, my Microsoft Word X can load a romanised Sanskrit text and view it on screen with all the diacritical marks. No problem. However, I cannot print the text—printer wants to print but shows "No job printing". This makes sense to me if FontExplorerX is right. I should add that the font is located in my Classic "System Folder."
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a) an explanation of how come I could earlier use this font in OS 7.6 (which I ran on my LC II machine), but cannot use (to print) in either OS 9.2.2 or Classic, or OS X?
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I should add that this font (DCRTimes) is not a commercial font (so will not show up on fonts.com), and I cannot remember what University originally sent it to me. |
Without access to the original font, it is difficult to say what should be going on or what is going wrong. If the font dates back to System 7.6, then it could be a TrueType GX or PostScript GX font with glyphs for the entire panoply of diacriticals. FWIW, TrueType GX and PostScript GX are compatible with MacOS X.
I notice that
FontExplorer incorrectly identifies bitmapped fonts as Adobe Type 1. Bitmapped fonts may be standalone or they may be linked to an Adobe Type 1, but they are not Adobe Type 1 fonts. The fact that DCRTimes is not a commercial font is of little concern. There are numerous freeware and shareware fonts which are not listed by Fonts.com. However, there should be a source
somewhere. I have done a Google search on the name "DCRTimes," but I get absolutely no hits. The font may have a different file name, but you don't seem to know it.