Naming field question.

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:confused: I have made a pseudo-bold font from the bitmaps used for the original font by importing and eroding the glyphs.
I have followed the instructions in the help file in order to establish it as bold.
I have installed the font.
When I use Word 2000 and select the original font, the bold font is the one chosen for printing.
I presume (possibly wrongly) that I have made an error in one of the naming fields in Format → Naming.
My question is:
Which of the naming fields is the one used by applications to select the implementation of the font to be used?

Joe.

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I suspect that it might be none of them, but perhaps the flag in Fomat, Settings, Windows tab. Not by any means sure though.

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In Windows, the Font Family name is displayed in the font menu; the Font Subfamily name is presented as the Style name.

Windows uses both Font Design and your locale font subfamily name and full font name fields.

Here is some relevant part of the manual:
http://www.high-logic.com/manual/fonttype.html

You could also use the fifofo utility to examine your installed fonts:
http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/fix-fonts-folder/197/1

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Thanks, both, for your guidance. I’ve something to work on now.
I appreciate your replies.

Joe.

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:smiley: Problem solved. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
The problem was that the original font was an old one made before the AutoNaming Wizard was available and the naming fields were put in by hand. The bold font was made fairly recently and the naming fields were put in using the AutoNaming Wizard.
The AutoNaming Wizard produces other field text entries from the font family name text.
The pictures show that some original field entries have spaces yet the recent font (bold) field entries have none; hence the problem.

Thanks.

Joe.