How to tell font type and other font questions

I think I understand how it all works now. This article was very helpful:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=328508&sliceId=2

especially its link to:

http://www.adobe.com/type/pdfs/Type1-2-OpenType.pdf

Thanks for the comments, which led me on the right track.

Jan

Control Panel > Fonts shows 21 fonts whose names begin with AGaramond (all .pfm), while Framemaker's Format > Font (and Paragraph Designer) have just 8. (One example.)

I'm assuming I should see a separate listing for AGaramond italic, and not just select it via Angle: Italic in Paragraph Designer? AGaramond Bold is there, but not AGaramond Italic.

I've found the page below and am working my way through it, but so far no luck:

Certain installed fonts don't appear in the Font menu (Adobe applications)

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=322050

How many fonts is "too many?" Somehow over the years I've collected 1000+ files in the fonts folder.

Jan Axelson

> 1. Paragraph Designer lists available fonts by name, but how to know if they're Postscript or TrueType?

You can't tell from Paragraph Designer. You need to look at your
installed fonts in Control Panel > Fonts.

> 2. How to ensure that Framemaker can access all installed fonts? My psfonts folder includes:

Framemaker (and all the other programs on your computer) can access
nothing but all of your (properly) installed fonts. There's not a way to
make installed fonts inaccessible.

> GDI_____.PFB

Just because you have a font in your psfonts folder doesn't mean it's
installed. If Adobe Garamond Italic shows in Control Panel > Fonts, it's
installed. If you View Details, you should be able to see if
GDI_____.PFM is really Adobe Garamond Italic. Note that properly
installed Type 1 fonts will show the PFM in Control Panel > Fonts, not
the PFB (although both are really there).

> 3. If a TrueType and Postscript font have the same name, what does Framemaker do?

I'm not sure what Frame does, but you should try really hard to avoid
this situation. It can cause some strange things to happen, like you can
use the font, but when you print Courier gets substituted. Again, go to
Control Panel > Fonts and look through the list. If you have two fonts
of the same name, you should remove one. This most often happens with
Symbol, which comes in Truetype (with MS Office) and Type 1 (with older
Adobe products).

If you've really installed a font (through Control Panel > Fonts) but it
doesn't show in Frame (and you've already made sure you don't have two
with the same name installed), try deleting the font, rebooting, and
then installing it. Before you delete it, make sure you have the font on
its original media so you can install it again.

--
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com