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PostScript or TrueType in 2015?
I'm organizing my fonts, and wondering if it's still the norm to keep the PostScript versions over the TrueType versions for print? I'm running Mac OS 10.10 using CC. Any info would be helpful 
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To start out with, what do you mean by PostScript fonts? The fact is that TrueType fonts are every bit as much “PostScript fonts” as are Type 1 fonts (assuming that is what you mean by PostScript fonts). TrueType fonts are native to PostScript as well as PostScript and have been so for at least twenty years now!
In choosing fonts, you should be choosing on the basis of the design merits of the fonts as well as the reliability and reputation of the font vendor. A well-designed and executed TrueType font will print every bit as well as a Type 1 font and vice versa with regards to use on-screen!
What you should be seriously considering these days is use of OpenType fonts. OpenType fonts are in two flavours, OpenType CFF fonts have Bezier curve outlines, comparable to the outlines used in Type 1 fonts and OpenType TrueType fonts have quadratic curves similar to the the outlines used in TrueType fonts. OpenType fonts of both flavours are cross-platform compatible, unlike the old Type 1 fonts and MacOS TrueType and .dfont fonts.
You should also be aware that although old style Type 1 fonts continue to be supported in Adobe applications (and will always be supported in PostScript and PDF), the latest versions of MacOS don't support them nor do recent versions of Microsoft Office applications on both platforms.
- Dov
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