Re: font load order

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From: Herb
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:45

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Very simply, you can't have two versions of the same font, with 
identical internal font names, installed on the same system or in use 
at the same time.

A font manager could activate your choice of sets of fonts, then 
de-activate them when done. This is the equivalent of installing and 
un-installing automatically.

I don't know how it works on a Mac (for operating system specific 
questions, you'd be better off in an operating system forum), but 
under Windows, the installed font takes precedence (it doesn't allow 
multiple fonts with the same font name to be installed in the first 
place); if not installed, the first one opened dynamically is the one 
used - BUT it can get confused. Type 1 and Truetype fonts aren't 
always handled the same way, just to confuse things further.

  - Herb

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Subject: Re: font load order
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