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Re: Myriad Pro Font Name Conflicts in Windows XP

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From: Herb
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:38
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"Windows' only real problem is that it doesn't list all variants under 
the family name."

Well, Windows has more real problems than that! But that's besides the 
point :)

When properly named, the only variants that aren't listed by Windows 
apps are specifically Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic, because 
applications provide buttons for them.

Some applications, such as Corel Draw, disable the buttons for any 
font family that doesn't provide the appropriate font file. Hmm.. 
wonder what it does if there's a bold italic but no bold or italic ... 
will have to test that. Some day.

MS Office applications, Corel Word Perfect, and similar applications 
let you use the Bold and Italic buttons even if the appropriate font 
file is absent, producing a typographically disgusting faux bold and a 
terrible oblique, respectively.  The worst part of this is that 
there's no way to tell it not to, and there's no way to determine 
whether the matching files are installed.

  - Herb
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Subject: Re: Myriad Pro Font Name Conflicts in Windows XP
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