Questions

We are working on a localized version of a French Magazine. I received a set of fonts that should work on PC. All the fonts that were sent to us did not work on either Mac or PC, they all have a strange suffix like AFM/dat (see example below) BauerBodBlaCon.AFM BauerBodBlaCon.dat I think the person who sent this to us exported them from ATM deluxe possibly or another font manager and not they are not a real copy of the font. Any one knows what are these files or how to utilize them? We are waiting for a reply from France but they are taking their time.

In order for a restricted user to launch the ATM control panel and add or remove fonts, they will need to have access to the following registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Type Manager HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Type 1 Installer\Type 1 Fonts HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Fonts Adapted from material originally posted by Lance K

I would like to change our logo/typeface to the Adobe Myriad pro family on Windows XP Pro and the full Adobe CS suite and MS Office 2003 software installed. After installing the Pro fonts from Adobe into the Windows Font control panel (using install new font option) they are not visable in the MS Word typeface menu, nor the AutoCAD 2004. What do I need to do to get support for these Pro fonts in Microsoft Office? Aram de Glas, Amsterdam

I've seen/had issues with Adobe's Myriad Pro (otf) font. It seems that the "semibold" weight (and others) don't show up in microsoft products such as PPT and Word. This no-show, or strange mapping happens with Microsoft products in both Mac and Windows platforms on multiple computers. I thought I'd turn to the experts here to figure out if there are any known issues with the typeface or what might be going on. Any advice would be most appreciated. This was the closest forum to this topic that I could find. If I'm in the wrong place I would be grateful if you could point me to where I should be. Cheers, Mick

Is there a simple tool/utility to convert an .otf (Adobe Windows) to .ttf. I purchased an .otf font without knowing that my cad program only supports .ttf and .shx

Hi all, This might be slightly off-topic, but I'd like to know if there's any means to directly download OTF fonts to my good old Apple Laser Writer II NT (1990). Of course, one can include them into PS files (or PDFs), or just convert them to PFAs (which might be already a legal problem, anyway ;-() and then send them to the printer. But I don't think ordinary PFAs will support full-featured Unicode character sets... Thus, what I'd like to do is having the full character sets of the "Pro" fonts in the printer's memory (maybe adding some old SIMM modules or even an SCSI HD to the printer). Any clue on that? BTW, I've got another problem, as the latest Adobe PS driver demands PS level 2, and the Apple printer description files don't work with 1.0.6 for Windows, if I don't declare my printer being a LaserWriter NTX (which is totally wrong for the very moment). Happy New year to all and best regards, Christoph

I would like to know the precise meaning and origin of the term "Open Type" font. I am a designer and do not have a technical computer backgrond, so if the explanation requires technical knowledge, I'd appreciate a 'ground-up' explanation. Thanks!

I have a customer that has been using Font Folio on a MacOS 9. Now they are converting to PC and want to use opentype instead. They have bought the library package for Opentype. Is there anywhere a listing of mappings of fontnames from the old library into the new font names on the opentype? Or are all fonts named the same?

Do InDesign CS, Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS apply language-dependent features? I am trying to work out a feature that would be applied differently in English and French. It seems to work OK in the shareware word-processor Mellel, but with the Adobe apps (under Mac OS 10.3.8) only the default substitutions show up. I am trying to do it in FontLab. Would the results be any different with the FDK?

There is a new patch for ATM for Windows. There are separate updaters for ATM Light and Deluxe, to update them to version 4.1.2. The ATM Deluxe update is at: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1553 The ATM Light update is at: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1552 The updates address the following issues: 1) Uninstalling ATM 4.0 on a Windows 2000 or XP system causes the system to no longer be able to install Type 1 fonts. This is a Windows bug, which ATM 4.1.2 works around. 2) Uninstalling ATM 4.0, or 4.1, or 4.11 on any Windows platform causes PFM files to be left unassociated with the system font applet preview page. ATM 4.1.2 associates PFM files with the system font applet instead of ATM; uninstalling 4.1.2 thus causes no problem.

The OpenType menu in InDesign can show four kinds of full-size numerals: - proportional lining (pnum + lnum) - proportional oldstyle (pnum + onum) - tabular lining (tnum + lnum) - tabular oldstyle (tnum + onum) This works fine with a font that has all four, but how can I set up the features so the menu will correctly show only two or three styles, for example in a font that has proportional lining, proportional oldstyle, and tabular lining numbers, but no tabular oldstyle - or one that has only tabular lining and proportional oldstyle?

We have recently adopted OpenType in our workflow of catalog production, and one thing that I've noticed in the absence of the ability to place an accent mark (option-e) over vowels in Helvetica Std. or Helvetica St. Bold. All of the rest of the faces in the Helvetica Std family (Light, Black, Condensed, etc) contain this character set by typing option-e before typing the necessary vowel. Has this character moved to another keyboard command? Is this simply an oversight ? And most importantly, if it isn't possible at the moment, will it be fixed? This functionality is very important as at least one client of ours uses this character in their logo and we need to be able to type it as such in all of the body copy relating to this client. Please advise........

I work for a large company and we just purchased the entire library of fonts from Adobe. We use both macs and pcs in our office. The fonts that were sent were "Open Type". I have a few questions: 1. We had been using "Type 1". Has "Open Type" replaced all of type 1 fonts? 2. There were several fonts that we used as type 1 that are not showing up in our Adobe Font library of type (Example: Helvetica Narrow). Does Adobe no longer support that font? Are there others available to purchase, or does the Adobe Font Folio CD cover all type that is available? Thanks,

Is there a way to force FDK to _not_ assign Unicode index values in the PUA for glyphs that are not in the AGL 1.2 or have an explicit uni-index set in the GOADB, and leave them empty instead? It is possible when using the FDK embedded in FL but I can't find an option for it in the FDK docs, apart from not using the GOADB feature at all. /mårten

I've purchased Adobe's OpenType version of its Mathematical Pi fonts. There were 6 Type 1 fonts originally. Now you can buy an inexpensive d/l package of the 6 and an OpenType version of them all rolled into one. It's called Mathematical Pi LT Std. As you can imagine, for the OTF the encoding of most characters has changed. I looked at the OpenType file in InDesign and found 689 glyphs (the package says 690, so I must have miscounted). Then I opened it in MS Word 2003 for Windows. The Symbols insert chart shows only 476 characters. Unaccountably, many of the missing ones are in the fraktur, script, outline and bold Greek alphabets, and they're especially weak in A through G, upper and lower case. These include characters that I used in the most recent issue of my journal. Anyway, something seems to have gone wrong in Word's encoding of characters from this font. You can see the gaps in Unicode character codes in Word's Symbol insert. Have others found a way to display in Word all

Hi! Have a small question if any one knows about this problem, we are using OpenType fonts and we are about to change printer. More or less accidental i found a PDF on their Webpage... and guess what, they say they can't print OTF, hmmm. The most frustrating is that they say they can't check the PDfs and see if there problem will occur Is this just to accept and change the printer or is there a solution? When I try to talk to them their attitude are more or less... "we can´t help you, change the font or get missing letters"... (we work in many different languages so this is not an option) hope some one knows... Åsa

Purchased open type and scrupulously followed directions loading through ATM Deluxe 4.6.1. The fonts are loaded into my fonts folder which is on the top level of my harddrive. If i load them anywhere else, ATM cant see them. I can send to my printer and print with no problem but when i try to make a PDF (Acrobat Distiller 6.0 Professional) i get a message Unknown Error, Error 32615 when creating the post script file. Anyone ever had this problem?

Are there any plans to produce a version of the EditOTFMetrics plug-in that will work with InDesign CS? If not, can InDesign 1.5 amd CS coexist on the same machine (with Mac OS 10.3)? The error message I get opening InDesign CS is: >Adobe InDesign cannot load the EditOTFMetrics >plug-in. The EditOTFMetrics plug-in requires the 2.1 >version of Adobe InDesign. Please contact the >vendor to get a compatible version of >EditOTFMetrics. JP

I need to find out what font was used on this (not so great) logo. You can see it on the restaurant's home page at http://www.boatyardgrill.com/ ... any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to recreate (and hopefull repair) it for print. Thanks! Eric

Hi, at work if my boss creates a document in Word or Power point on WIN in Franklin Gothic. He then sends it to me who works on a Mac 9.2 and she opens it in her mac version Word or Power point the fonts are all wrong even though she has Franklin Gothic on her computer. The questons is does Open fonts cure this problem? Or I'm having problems somewhere else! Many thanks for any advise. S

I've been following the example PDF layouts in the free PDF document on how to create PDFs from scratch and I'm having a few problems. I thought the PDFs I had created were the same as the ones outlined in the examples but I keep getting something like "..file was damaged and now repairing.." pop up for a brief second and then disappear. The PDF (just text right now) then comes up looking fine. Can anyone suggest a reason (or reasons) why I might be getting this? I have the example PDF on hand and can e-mail it if anyone can help me out. I would really, really appreciate any help on this. Thanks. Rob

I have Adobe Poppl-Laudatio (which Adobe doesn't even sell anymore) I would like to convert it to Open Type to eliminate some major cross-platform issues. BUT - I have no experience in ANY kind of programming. Anybody know of a utility for the common folk? Or is this FDK something I (non-techie designer) could ever learn to use? Thanks ~Cathleen sorry - should add I am using Windows XP and sending files to MAC

Hi all I went to buy the frutiger fonts (9fonts) from adobe. The format is open type which is what I want. B ut when going to buy them I am asked whether I want mac or windows format. I thought open type fonts were cross platform? We have both MACs and PCs, if I want the font on both do I have to buy both formats ? Link to font: http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1186.jhtml Thanks for any help, sorry for this being off topic but I couldn't see where else to post. gerryR

I am pleased to announce that we have posted the programming details and schedule for the ATypI Type Tech Forum and FontLab workshop. These seminars are associated with the ATypI Prague conference, and run immediately prior to the conference, September 29-30, 2004. One admission fee entitles attendees to mix and match sessions between these two tracks. Regards, T Thomas W. Phinney Program Manager Fonts & Core Technologies Adobe Systems

Hi Has anyone got the FDK working in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)? It looks like FinishInstall.py only works with tcsh, and not bash (which is what Panther uses by default). I have run FinishInstall.py with ~/ as my working directory, but all attempts at running MakeOTF.py have failed. (I am trying to generate the example font AdobeGaramondPro.) I get errors involving tracebacks and no tkinter support, which I would have thought of as given. If you *are* running the FDK in Panther, I'd like to hear of it so that I know my efforts were the result of ignorance rather than impossible circumstance. Thanks, Will Robertson