Good cross platform text fonts?

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4 total messages Started by Sally_McKissack Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:17

#1586

Author: Sally_McKissack
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:17

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I'm having a lot of trouble getting in sync with my printing company. I've been trying to use common fonts (Times, Garamond) for my company newsletter to avoid any cross-platform issues, and I even supply the fonts when I turn in the job, but the last couple of issues have really had some reflow and kerning issues. It actually looks like the end result font is a point or two bigger than the original file. My newsletter looks like crap. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Re: Good cross platform text fonts?

#1587

Author: Dov Isaacs
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:25

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You don't give us much to go on. For example, what application are you using? Exactly which fonts are you using (there are quite a few fonts with generic names Times and Garamond)? How are you submitting your job to your "printing company"?

If you are submitting your print job to your printing company as a PDF file with all fonts embedding, you should never see any reflow problems at all nor should you see any kerning problems that don't otherwise occur when you print your file to a local print device.

- Dov

Re: Good cross platform text fonts?

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Author: Bob Levine
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:05

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Type faces won't eliminate cross platform issues...font format will. Use 
opentype fonts and there won't be an issue.

It's also worth noting that, licensing issues aside, Windows truetype 
fonts will work in OSX and Windows Type 1 fonts can be placed in a 
private Adobe fonts folder and will be recognized by Adobe apps on the Mac.

But I would highly encourage you to use PDF to avoid all of the other 
problems that can arise by sending native files.

Bob

Re: Good cross platform text fonts?

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Author: Neil_Keller
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:23

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Ditto what Bob says.

Neil

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