DTL FontMaster Manual1.1 PDF

dtl datamaster: export fonts …
The way to handle the naming of the font can diuer. The mostly used
naming conventions for Mac os and Windows show diuerences. On a Mac
it is common practice to put all the weight/style names behind the hyphen
(FamilyName-MediumItalic), even if this is a medium weight. On a
Windows system such naming will not be recognized by the system, except
for the Regular and Bold weight. So for Windows the resulting name would
be: FamilyNameMedium-Italic. To preserve an optimal exchange of
documents between Macintosh and pc with the use of the same fonts, the
naming for both platforms should be identical based on the Windows
convention, although for this purpose identical FondNames and FullNames
should work in most cases.
2.2.1 Advanced …
The Advanced … button opens the Advanced: view/change ufm and par file
entries dialog. Here you can control all details concerning for example the
Font Naming, Common Metrics Information and Table Information. Be
aware of the fact that the behaviour of your font depends on what you enter
in the following dialogs:
– Common
Here you can change the FontNaming and Copyright Information. Changing
the FontName will not change automatically any of the naming in the other
ufm dialogs; you will have to do this manually. The FontName, also
sometimes called the PostScript Name must not contain any spaces or
special characters, with exception of the hyphen or underscore. It can be a
condensation of the FullName by removing the spaces. It is customary to
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A typical example of font naming, as
used by the Dutch Type Library.
For Mac os:
File: A057o14T
FontName: DTLArgoT-Medium
FamilyName: DTLArgoT
Weight: Medium
FondName: DTL Argo T Medium
MacStyle: Regular
For Windows:
File: A057o14T
FontName: DTLArgoTMedium
FamilyName: DTLArgoTMedium
Weight: Regular
FaceName: DTLArgoTMedium
FullName: DTL Argo T Medium
pcWeight: Medium
All details about the items in the ufm
dialogs can be found in Appendix iv.