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Anonymous
June 11, 2010
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Problem with ITC Franklin Gothic Std display in CS3

  • June 11, 2010
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Perhaps someone here can verify (or not) a problem we're seeing with an Adobe font. The font is ITC Franklin Gothic Std Book. This is from the Adobe Font Folio 9, so the version number is 1.047;PS 001.003;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.5960

In InDesign and Illustrator CS3, when we type a Registered Sign followed by a Right Double Quotation Mark, the spacing between the two is several times wider than between the Left Double Quotation Mark followed by a Registered Sign. (Photoshop CS3 doesn't show this problem, but it has a different type engine than the others.)

The two characters are:

Name: REGISTERED SIGN

GID: 161

Unicode: 00AE

Name: RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

GID: 117

Unicode: 201D

We're also seeing the same odd spacing in the Demi weight of the typeface.

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    jmcarthy99
    Participating Frequently
    May 13, 2011

    Any update, are ITC going to release a patch/replacement for the font?

    MiguelSousa
    Community Manager
    MiguelSousaCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    June 11, 2010

    I can confirm that this is a bug in the ITC Franklin Gothic Std family. The affected fonts are Book, Demi, Demi Compressed Italic and Heavy.

    What's happening is that the right side bearing of the registered sign glyph is much larger than the left side bearing. We're asking ITC about fixing this.

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    Anonymous
    June 11, 2010

    Miguel,

    Thank for verifying this. We'll have to keep our eyes open for it.

    Tom

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