Question
PostScript fonts vs. Open Type comparison
OK, here's the problem.
My company has it's own graphics design department running MAC OS X which is using all PostScript fonts. We got a new digitalcolor laser printer (Xerox iGen3) (aka a digital press) with a WinXP front end (DFE) which has the Adobe Open Type fonts library installed. All new jobs created in the graphics design department will be utilizing the new Open Type fonts.
All of the graphics designed until now are using the PS fonts on the MAC workstations which are not compatible with Microsoft.
Any old graphics that we have on file will need to have the fonts changed to it's Open Type equivalent. To do that it appears that we would need to find it's equivalent by visually matching the fonts due to file name differences between PS and Open Type fonts.
I am tasked to locate some sort of documentation (speadsheet, list, database) on the comparison or mapping of the two font types. For example, a PS font on the MAC is called Goudy, but the Open Type font doesn't have that file name and it has one called Bgoudy. Unless someone actually knows this it would be very hard to find the Goudy equivalent if you are looking in alphabetical order and in the G's section.
Does anyone know of the type of documentation I am looking for? Or can you point me in another direction?
My company has it's own graphics design department running MAC OS X which is using all PostScript fonts. We got a new digitalcolor laser printer (Xerox iGen3) (aka a digital press) with a WinXP front end (DFE) which has the Adobe Open Type fonts library installed. All new jobs created in the graphics design department will be utilizing the new Open Type fonts.
All of the graphics designed until now are using the PS fonts on the MAC workstations which are not compatible with Microsoft.
Any old graphics that we have on file will need to have the fonts changed to it's Open Type equivalent. To do that it appears that we would need to find it's equivalent by visually matching the fonts due to file name differences between PS and Open Type fonts.
I am tasked to locate some sort of documentation (speadsheet, list, database) on the comparison or mapping of the two font types. For example, a PS font on the MAC is called Goudy, but the Open Type font doesn't have that file name and it has one called Bgoudy. Unless someone actually knows this it would be very hard to find the Goudy equivalent if you are looking in alphabetical order and in the G's section.
Does anyone know of the type of documentation I am looking for? Or can you point me in another direction?
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