RE: [WinMac] X-platform font wobblies

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:40:53 -0500

At 7:15 AM -0500 9/16/99, John Nurick wrote:
>> 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.

        You are trying to get a word processor that isn't designed to
be "typeface smart" to become so. The [I] button on the toolbar is
designed to apply the "faux" Italic style to the text in the given
font, NOT change the font to the appropriate italic/oblique version
of the font - UNLESS the program is smart about font
formats/naming/etc.

        This is why Adobe products don't have a "Style" menu, because
people doing "real" typography would never use a faux style - they
want specific choices of fonts/faces.

>> 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.

        Assuming your clients aren't doing editing on those
documents, send PDF!

>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?
>
        ATM is a default part of the MacOS, it does a bunch of
interesting things - one involves using Type 1 font information
(Times is a T1 font) to do the right thing when someone tries to
apply a faux style to a font that has a correct italic/oblique font.

Leonard

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