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Article #78Stylized font quandry
From: Rick
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:55
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:55
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I am using Pagemaker 7 on XP pro, and have been using Univers as the "official corporate font" for 11 years. The Univers Type 1 font set from Adobe comes with 8 pfb files, UVL, UV, UVB, UVBL and the 4 oblique files. In XP's Font Viewer, both the Univers Light and the Univers Bold files show with the same title, Univers 45 Light (Type 1). The Univers and Univers Black files have the same title, Univers 55 (Type 1). In pagemaker, only 45 and 55 are listed as available fonts. I have to bold and italicize them. Strangely, in Photoshop 7, all 4 weights are listed. My print shop has recently installed a new Heidelberg direct to plate system, driven by a PC (at least for my files, he has a Mac too) and the printer has difficulty producing my pubs with the bolding applied. They all come out as very loose, normal weight. He says I need actual 65 and 75 weight font files, which do not seem to exist in the PC world. I managed to work around the problem for now by providing him with hires pdf files. Is there a setting somewhere on the imagesetter driver to accept or ignore stylized weights? Would this problem go away if I migrated to InDesign? Thanks, Rick
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