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Started by D_Morley
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:59
PC equivalent of a mac font
Author: D_Morley
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:59
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:59
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All, I need helping finding the right font to purchase for the PC. On our mac, they are called: News Gothic BT (T1) Sabon (T1) We purchased the News Gothic and Sabon standard font from Adobe but it doesn't seem to be the same font. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Re: PC equivalent of a mac font
Author: Bob Levine
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:09
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:09
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If you just bought it, it's quite likely an opentype font which is completely crossplatform compatible. Use it on both (providing the license allows it). Bob
Re: PC equivalent of a mac font
Author: D_Morley
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:31
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:31
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The thing is, it was an existing font on our Macs when I first started here.. Is there a utility that would allow me to pull the fonts from the mac and install them on our PC's? The licensing wouldn't be an issue.
Re: PC equivalent of a mac font
Author: Dave_Saunders
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:40
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:40
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The "T1" in the names mark your fonts as PostScript. The new fonts you bought are the OpenType conversions of the same fonts. They are just about perfect matches for the fonts they replace, plus they have a few extra characters (for example, the Euro character). Dave
Re: PC equivalent of a mac font
Author: D_Morley
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:03
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:03
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Say a mac creates a document in InDesign.. when the PC tries to open it, it says that the fonts are missing. But I have installed the fonts. I noticed on Adobe's site they have the standard version and a regular version of the fonts. Is that the issue, that I purchased the standard version?
Re: PC equivalent of a mac font
Author: Dave_Saunders
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:37
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:37
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Yes, they are different fonts from a technical point of view. You would need to install them on both computers and convert the documents to use the new fonts (which should be fairly painless, although you've not said which application you're using. After that, there will be no problems crossing platforms with these fonts. I'm not sure if the old Type 1 Postscript fonts are still available for purchase anywhere. Dave
Re: PC equivalent of a mac font
Author: Thomas_Phinney
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:53
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:53
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Actually, you didn't get "News Gothic BT" from Adobe. The BT is short for Bitstream (the type foundry/vendor), and their version of this century-old classic will very likely have different metrics than Adobe's - you will want to get your PC version from then as well.
Adobe still makes the old Type 1 ("PostScript") fonts available for purchase on the Adobe.com web site, although we mostly recommend OpenType these days. We haven't made a new Type 1 font since 1999.
Sabon: <http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_088.html>
Regards,
T
Re: PC equivalent of a mac font
Author: D_Morley
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:22
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:22
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yeah, the mac fonts were existing before I started working here.. It sounds like having them convert the documents would be the best scenario. Thank you all for your help!
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