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October 13, 2008
Question

font load order

  • October 13, 2008
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I have a situation where Arial Narrow (TT)v 1.15 and Arial Narrow OTTT v 2.35 are installed in the library/fonts folder. when I open a doc on my 10.5x mac(created elsewhere on a mac) that uses the older version in ID3 , it will not even see the older TT, but wants to substitute the 2.35. How can I force ID to recognize two versions of this font or at least to use the older one when called for?I have to swap this file back and forth several times during a production cycle and it's a gib pain in the butt. There are about five fonts like this in the document.

If there's an article about font loading order and/or recognition, I'd love to read it. I coudn't find one.

Jay
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    Neil_Keller
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    October 14, 2008
    Jay,

    Herb has pretty much nailed it: you cannot have more than one version of SAME-NAMED fonts active at one time. Use a font manager to activate and control the ONE version of the font you need for the job. Deactivate the other. Duplicate activated fonts can wreak havoc with your system including application stalls, wrong fonts being used, and other problems.

    BTW, you should use initial capitalization when posting in these forums. If you start a sentence with "i" instead of "I", you invoke italics and drop the "i", making your post harder to read and reducing the likelihood of it being read.

    I've taken the liberty of fixing your post.

    Neil
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    _Herb_V_B_
    Participating Frequently
    October 13, 2008
    Very simply, you can't have two versions of the same font, with
    identical internal font names, installed on the same system or in use
    at the same time.

    A font manager could activate your choice of sets of fonts, then
    de-activate them when done. This is the equivalent of installing and
    un-installing automatically.

    I don't know how it works on a Mac (for operating system specific
    questions, you'd be better off in an operating system forum), but
    under Windows, the installed font takes precedence (it doesn't allow
    multiple fonts with the same font name to be installed in the first
    place); if not installed, the first one opened dynamically is the one
    used - BUT it can get confused. Type 1 and Truetype fonts aren't
    always handled the same way, just to confuse things further.

    - Herb
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