🚀 go-pugleaf

Wow....I didn�t know I would start up such a passionate discussion!

So here is how I finally took care of the issue......

The issue begins with the Open Type �Pro� families...having too many choices to classify each to its own font ID. Each is indeed recognized by PC applications...but the FONT NAMES are not recognized by the Windows OS font handling utility. Using cross-platform applications show this up. If you use products from the Adobe Creative Suite....all the font names show up in the font menu just like they do in Mac OSX � because Adobe apps do not utilize the Windows font handler. Any other apps � Microsoft suite and Quark for example � use the Windows font handler and the font menu appears to ignore certain fonts....but it is actually not true.

What I did was to create a Quark document on my Mac and set a line of type for each font style, kind of like a font sample sheet. What I discovered when I opened that document in Quark PC is that the fonts did appear and print properly. When I looked at the font menu, I found that Myriad Pro Semibold showed up in the menu as Myriad Pro Light � STYLIZED AS BOLD. I then discovered that all the fonts that I thought were missing indeed just showed up as stylized versions of another font style name.

For PostScript RIPs, it is usually a no-no to stylize fonts. But I double-checked the output by producing a press-optimized PDF and the Preflight check did not produce a red flag for stylized fonts.....valid file for PostScript output! I tried this with other Open Type �Pro� fonts with the same success. I haven�t come across any problems with True Type fonts, but if those fonts DO work on your Mac, I would recommend trying this same approach....assuming you have copies of an application that you can open in both platforms.

So....MY recommendation for identifying the menu names is to create a document on the Mac side and set a line of type for each font style assigning that style to that line, then reopening the document in the PC version and seeing the font menu name mapping structure.

Hope we can all be friends now...