Windows vs MAC

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May 27, 2024
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We see a difference when opening the same page within Adobe InDesign on a windows machine than on a MAC machine. We have checked the settings and they are the same in both cases. Anyone seen this before?

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Mike Witherell

Community Expert

I just downloaded your example file and un-zipped it. I changed the name of the fonts folder to "Document fonts" and then opened the INDD file. On my Windows 11 system, the file opened perfectly, and the syllable break is exactly the same as on your macOS version.

Are you using a "Document fonts" sub-folder?

Or have you actually installed the font family named Arnhem into your Windows machine?

BTW, your Hyphenation settings for that paragraph style seem too liberal.

Mike Witherell

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Mike,

did you do your tests with InDesign 16.4.3 ?

Could be a bug in that older version that is fixed with the current one.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

Are you using Open Type fonts or True Type? Open Type are the only fonts that work totally cross platform and should present the same results on both Windows and Mac. Open Type fonts will have the suffix .otf.

BobLevine

Community Expert

Hi Bill,

Not completely true. Windows TrueType fonts will work on a Mac and there are two "flavors" of Opentype. Without going into the full details, many OpenType fonts have a TTF extension.

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

Bob,
My own results with using True Type cross platform (using Times Roman, if I recall corectly) resulted in some ragging issues. As far as I've ever seen Opentype has been more reliable.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @Patrick Bruggink ,

so InCopy on Windows and Mac as well as InDesign on Mac show the same result in text composition?

Only InDesign on Windows is showing a different one?

Are you working with the exact same versions of InDesign and InCopy on both platforms?

Please check the exact versions. Go to About InDesign when holding the Command-key ( Mac) or CTRL-key ( Windows ) and click. You should see a detailed information window with exact version of InDesign. For example Version 19.4.0.63 for the latest release. All four apps should have the exact same version number.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )