Microsoft KB Archive/67437

Understanding the Bitstream Font Filenames PSS ID Number: Q67437 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The names of the Bitstream font files, created during the PowerPoint for Windows setup progran, indicate the typeface, style, and point size of the font. You can use the following method to determine which files generate which fonts.

More Information:

All the Bitstream font files included with Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows version 3.00 start with an “at” sign (@).

The second character in the font name indicates the typeface and style of the font. The Dutch fonts (Times-Roman style serif fonts) have an A, B, C, or D as the second character in the name. The A’s are plain, the B’s are italic, the C’s are bold, and the D’s are bold-italic.

The Swiss fonts (sans-serif Helvetica-style fonts) have E, F, G, or H as the second character in the name. The E’s are plain, the F’s are italic, the G’s are bold, and the H’s are bold-italic.

The Zapf-Dingbats font files have a 5 as the second character in the name. They do not have any bold or italic styles because they are decorative bullet characters, not alpha-numeric characters.

The third, fourth, and fifth characters in the name indicate the point size of the font. The three-digit number is the point size followed by a zero.

For example, if you use the key described above, “@b040njj” is the filename of a Dutch italic 4-point font. “@h120njj” is the filename of a Swiss bold-italic 12-point font.

The Bitstream font files, for the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet family of printers, each have one of three different extensions. PFM files are printer font metrics files. They contain the measurement and letter spacing information. The SFP extension indicates soft font portrait files and the SFL extension indicates soft font landscape files. The PFM files are used in conjunction with the SFP and SFL files to make usable fonts.

Note: To use Bitstream fonts when you print in landscape orientation (on any printer that does not have automatic rotation), you have to install the landscape fonts in addition to the portrait fonts.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.