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_Bill_OC_
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March 25, 2008
Question

commercial font list

  • March 25, 2008
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can anyone help me with finding as comprehensive a list as possible of commercially used fonts?
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_pinandty_
Participant
October 4, 2008
I have the same problem, who can give solve the problem of this Web site.

I can't handle this alone. dog breeds

thank.
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_Bill_OC_Author
Participant
April 2, 2008
Thanks Herb.
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_Bill_OC_Author
Participant
March 27, 2008
Thanks for the reply Herb. let me briefly explain my situation and perhaps you can tell me if you think there is any feasible way to address it. my company uses a service that automatically reviews PDF documents, extracts the text (if they are first gen PDFs), and applies business rules related to the content to eliminate need for people to do manual review. the automated review process is generating errors due to software not recognizing certain fonts. the easy fix would be to make sure that the software's "library of recognized fonts" was more complete. so i'm trying to identify some way of ensuring that this "library" is as complete as it can possibly be. any suggestions? thanks again for your help and advice. this is obviously not my area of expertise. ;-)
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_Herb_V_B_
Participating Frequently
March 27, 2008
The problem you've described would be better handled in one of the pdf
or Acrobat related forums. This forum is intended for font designers
using the opentype font development kit.

That said, if the pdf's obtained by your service contain text, the
specific font(s) used should be irrelevant. If the pdf's contain
images (pictures of text) and need to be optically scanned with OCR,
that's a different problem.

If the pdf's are resumés or curricula vitae, then you probably don't
want to interview people who use way out fonts for business
correspondence :)

- Herb
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_Herb_V_B_
Participating Frequently
March 27, 2008
"list of commercially used fonts"

That would be ... all of them! Including those from established
commercial foundries such as Adobe, Bitstream, and Agfa/Monotype,
individual designers, and both high and low quality fonts that are
free and shareware; not to mention proprietary fonts created for the
exclusive use of a single company.

Such a list would number in the tens of thousands, and would include
the different variations of typefaces produced by more than one
source, and totally different fonts that happen to have the same name.

Not a feasible undertaking.
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