Type & Typography

I posted an article several minutes ago that I can't find for some reason. Anyway the problem was Adobes OTF fonts unreadable by windows. I finally figured out that the problem was due tu /3GB switch. When I turn it on OTF fonts (link minion....) cannot be read by windows. I remove the switch, restart windows and evething is working fine. Why is this happening? Thank you.

I've been using Adobe's Type 1 version of Gill Sans for a number of years on all my presentations. Because of the conflict / headache with Apple's Gill Sans dfont installed, I finally bit the bullet and spent $300 to get Adobe's OTF version of Gill Sans (called Gill Sans Std). I had read that the font is exactly the same (just a different name to do away with font cache conflicts). Well, it's not really exactly the same. I notice an issue with line spacing as I was converting my Gill Sans Type 1 presentations to Gill Sans OTF. After converting to Gill Sans OTF, I have to reduce the line spacing by about 2 tenths (in Keynote) to get the equivalent look. Is this "normal?" There's a change in line spacing from Type 1 to OTF?

can anyone help me with finding as comprehensive a list as possible of commercially used fonts?

I have a client who uses an InDesign template for which the font is AkzidenzGroteskBQ-Reg (and variations of the font family). Adobe.com has never heard of it. Obviously my client has made it work with his copy of InDesign (I'm submitting a list of questions about the font to him), but what problems might I have installing it for Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. I'd like the font family to be available across CS3 and Windows VISTA for PC. Sue

Hi In my company we works with an own style character and we use specific fonts. The last month we changed the computers and we use Mac Os X and we can´t install the fonts when we are working with indesign, illustrator, freehand. all the fonts have .PFB and .PFM as extension. I tried to put them in the fonts(system, users, and inside the specific program) but doesn´t work. Please we need help Thanks

Can anybody help me? Why Photoshop is doing that? I even reboot my computer. I'm working with Windows XP and Photoshop CS3. Thanks.

Hello everybody !!!! I'm looking for a font that can handles every type of characters, from the latin alphabet till the cyrillic alphabet via the asiatic alphabets (japanese, chinese, ..). I though that Lucida Grande would do it, but apparently not (when I embed this font on my appli, it doens't display correctly the characters..). With a japanese character I though that I would have manage to find it, but unfortunately the russian is craply displayed (with a huge letter-spacing) So do you know if this magic font exist or how to find it ? In other case, do you know how to find the character palette on the mac that would list me all the font available on my mac and which alphabet these fonts handle ? Or maybe a website with fonts and their cover ? Thanks a lot for any help !!!

WinXP, IDCS3 5.0.3 The company I work for had a font customized for their company exclusively. The font has been used with Ventura & InDesign successfully for about five years. Now we're doing more multilingual work & have found the keyboard layouts for this font were not complete or chars are in wrong positions. Using Fontlab, I've been able to update these accordingly, but having kern issues with spanish punctuation that begins sentences (upside down ! and ?) I'm a fontlab novice, so I simply copied the right side up version of these characters & flipped upside down & pasted characters in correct keyboard layout position. Changed the spacing on left & right side of char., but InDesign seems to still see these chars. as end of sentence characters, leaving extra space after. Is there anything else I need to change in the character settings to help InDesign see these as beginning of sentence characters? Thanks Sandy

Hello,<br /><br />While testing a family of fonts using Comparefamily I receive error messages such as,<br /><br /> Error: Mac platform Full Name name id 4) 'Migration Sans ITC Std Bold Italic' is not the same as the font CFF table Full Name, 'Migration Sans ITC Std Bold Italic', for Font MigrationSansITCStd-BoldItalic.<br /><br />The message seems to be contradictory. Is it? Or is there a problem with the full name? <br /><br />When I dump the font with TTX the names are the same<br /><br /> <namerecord nameID="4" platformID="1" platEncID="0" langID="0x0"><br /> Migration Sans ITC Std Bold Italic<br /><br /> <FullName value="Migration Sans ITC Std Bold Italic"/><br /><br />Thanks in advance.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Bob

A text book that I am using is available in both print and electronic editions. The electronic editions are made available through a website called CourseSmart.com. The texts are provided to students at approximately 50% of list price. The book must be viewed through a web browser. The publisher's are hoping to cut out or reduce the used book market. They probably get more per book than they do selling through the traditional market and give the student value of a book that would cost less than their purchase and trade-in value of the book. You might ask what this has to do with typography. I'm reading through the electronic edition for a course I teach. I'm noticing that several of the words are missing letters. I curse and complain about the poor copy editing for the electronic edition. After going through the book more extensively, I find out that there is a pattern to the missing letters! The ligatures are missing!!! There are other typographical issues with spacing a

Love this one. Do you know what the name of this font is. It's "Member Benifits" in blue. I'd like to use it for a restaurant menue I'm designing. http://www.autoclubgroup.com/chicago/travel/guide/a6-benefits.asp?zip=60714 Thanks a lot in advance

I am looking for fonts that contain the Old English character yogh for a private project. I have so far found it in Minion Pro and Garamond Premier Pro (and Times New Roman, but we won't mention that). Can anyone tell me if there is a quick and easy way of identifying fonts that contain a specific glyph like this. At present I'm opening every single font on my system and searching for it, but it's taking for ever. If it's relevant, I'm on Windows Vista. Many thanks for you help, John

Hello there, I am trying to find out the restrictions for Adobe fonts displayed in commercial video games. Specifically, I am looking to use converted bitmap images to display text on screen and not including the true type or open type format directly on the given platform. Does anyone have any experience with this? Will the standard purchase agreement from Adobe grant this type of usage? Thanks, Chad Pfarr

Hi font experts. I've been directed here by someone at the InDesign forum, who thought you might be able to help. Can anyone explain what's happening here? I've loaded an OT version of Zapf Dingbats into Suitcase Fusion on my Mac Pro and it seems just fine. Font Doctor says its OK. Suitcase Fusion says its OK. The font characters display correctly in Fusion. I can use both the TT and OT versions of the font in Mail and Word. Both versions print OK, too. But when I apply the OT font in Adobe InDesign or Illustrator, all I get to see is boxes with a cross through them and that "missing font" pinkish hue. No other OT fonts pose this problem. And deleting the TrueType font of Zapf Dingbats makes no difference so it's not a duplicates problem. As a result of the above I've temporarily ditched Fusion today to try out FontExplorer (which I like). Comparing the two fonts in there, I can see that there are lots of "missing" characters in the OT version if I select "Show missing char

Hello, We are a non-profitable organization propagating Sanskrit. We would like to add some diacritical marks as a pronunciation guide. Do we need to take permission to add these diacritical marks in your fonts? If so, whom do we contact? Warm Regards.

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Hi folks, Font management isn't my strongest subject. At our office, we've recently installed OS X Leopard (10.5.4) on our production machines. My machine is a Mac Pro (2006) with 3 gigs of ram and we are running Suitcase Fusion 12.1.7 for our font management. I have been getting a new error message since the Leopard install (see link below): Does anyone know what might be causing this? Apparently there is some conflict with my system fonts? Any expert advice would be appreciated. Thanks, -JM

Any ideas? I plugged it into Whatthefont? and it came up as a ttf called "dream orphans". I keep thinking there is another commercial font out there by another name... Thanks, -JM

Hi guys I purchased helvetica light bold from the adobe store and made sure that I chose the mac font option and after I unzipped the folder it was in a .afm format which I cannot seem to use? I use Linotype font manager and it tells me there is no usable info in the file? Pls. help :) Corey

Hi Group, I recently purchased Zapfino, and I would like to know which non-script fonts would work nicely as a sub-title or body text. I saw 2 or 3 recommendations on Linotype's site about a year ago, but I cannot find that article now. Any suggestions for companion fonts? Thanks! Bryan

This message is more directed to Adobe. I am aware that currently OpenType fonts are cross platform compatible but only with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. However, my primary workspace is Fireworks-Flash. There are serious cross platform issues with fonts - I have looked at truetype, postscript and opentype and they all have issues translating onto PC - many of the styles are not available. In our studio I design on Mac but our Flash developers are on PC - our final renders and review renders always need to happen on Mac as a result of this cross platform issue. This is a little inefficient. When is Adobe planning on resolving this issue?

Hi All, My company purchased 3 fonts from the Adobe Type store for us... Helvetica Neue Std Light Helvetica Neue Std Roman Helvetica Neue Std Bold they're all OpenType fonts. Alas, we need to use it in Microsoft Word. On Macs, Word 2008: Light shows up as: HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Roman shows up as: HelveticaNeueLT Std Bold shows up as: HelveticaNeueLT Std Bold On PCs, Word 2003 and 2007: Light shows up as: HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Roman shows up as: HelveticaNeueLT Std and Bold is missing. How do I get Bold to show up? Thank you. -David Hsu

Here is a rough image (sample is small): Thanks folks! -JM

I know how to insert specific characters in a document with OS X's Character Palette. But how would one set a whole paragraph in small caps, for instance? Adobe CS3 apps include the necessary typographic controls to do this, but many applications (including Apple's native Cocoa apps) do not. It appears at first glance that users of many word processing apps are losing easy access to expert charsets (in those fonts that include them) if they "upgrade" to OpenType fonts. Am I missing something? Thanks! Alan

PowerMac G5 Version 10.4.11 MacBook Pro 17' version 10.5.4 Is there any way I can converted my collections of 2,000 fonts to OpenType? Will the fonts be exactly 100% the same if I converted to OpenType? Please advise me.