Font issues

Subject: Font issues
From: Joanne Wittenbrook <jwittenbrook -at- ameritech -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 07:54:22 -0700 (PDT)

--I really don't know any details on "codes," this is what a
--tech at Adobe told me about why our FM kept giving us
--missing font messages when we opened files that were
--made on other users' systems. It turned out that the
--fonts on some users' systems were being identified
--differently from same-named fonts on other users'
--systems because their id had been hijacked by fonts
--with completely different names
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This is exactly true. Back in the early days of digital fonts, screen fonts and print fonts were different files. When a doc was printed the system used an internal number to match the correct print font to the screen font so that the document would print as expected. As I recall the font number (it was called FOND in the Mac world) had only three or four digits. Problems started when fonts started proliferating. There were thousands of fonts and limited numbers to identify them to the system. It was not unusual for the decorative typefaces to have the same FOND as regular fonts and font management utilities were necessary.

Not sure how font technology has changed in recent years, but that is where font issues started. Many laser printers have postscript versions of fonts pre-loaded. It is entirely possible that the font on your computer uses the font that is resident in the printer. Thats why many graphic artists refer to fonts as the "F" word.

Joanne
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