RE: [WinMac] X-platform font wobblies
John Nurick(jnurick[at]lrconsulting.co.uk)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 07:15:34 -0500
Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
[...]
>John Nurick wrote:
[...]
> >When I install the Frutiger fonts on a Windows 9x machine, it
> >automatically groups them:
> >
> >#45, 46, 65 and 66 turn into "Frutiger 45 Light" plus
> italic, bold and
> >bold italic respectively.
> >#55, 56, 75 and 76 turn into "Frutiger 55 Roman" plus italic etc.
>
> Really? Well that doesn't help things, does it :(.
Au contraire, mon ami. Users can type happily away in a word processor
in the document's defaultt font (Frutiger 45 say) and if they want a
word in italics they just hit the [I] button on the toolbar, just as if
they were typing in Times Roman.
> >I know there's Windows software that can poke round inside Truetype
> >files to change this sort of thing; is there a Mac
> equivalent somewhere?
>
> You're just asking for trouble - use Type 1!
I think I'm with Daniel Scwartz on this one - especially as we shall
have to embed the fonts in draft documents sent out to ATM-less clients.
>
> There are TT editors for the Mac, check places like
> VersionTracker and such for a listing.
Perhaps I should rephrase the question:
On a Mac, some fonts (e.g. Times New Roman, Times New Roman Bold, and
Times New Roman Italic) seem to work together: you're typing in the
roman and if you select a word and click on the [I] toolbar button the
word is displayed and printed using the italic (as opposed to the roman,
slanted). Other equally closely related fonts (e.g. Frutiger 45 Light,
Frutiger 46 Light Italic, and Frutiger 65 Bold) don't. How do I make the
latter behave like the former?
Cheers,
John
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