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Re: Myriad Pro Font Name Conflicts in Windows XP

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From: Thomas_Phinney
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:43
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Myriad Pro Black should show up as a separate entry, if you have it properly installed.

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Side note on style linking:

As you note in your last message above, you can in fact use all weights of the font, by use of the "bold" button in conjunction with the weights that show up in the font menu in typical applications. The issue has to do with style linking on Windows, and is just a basic fact of life around using fonts in Windows, for the most part. (Some Adobe applications such as InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop bypass the Windows OS font handling entirely to avoid this issue.)

Note that this issue is true for ALL font formats on Windows, and is not particular to OpenType.

See this Adobe Tech Note for more info:
 <http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=328508&sliceId=2>

The issue is also discussed in the OpenType User Guide <http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/OTGuide.pdf>

...and at length in the OpenType readme file <http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/OTReadMe.html#Anchor-WindowsIssues>.

I don't know how we can make it more prominent, but obviously by documenting this everywhere we can think of, we're doing our best.

Regards,

T
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