Re: Font issues

["Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>]

My thanks to Joanne, Rick Bishop and Gene Kim-Eng for enlightening me about
font codes. This is fascinating, and not a little frightening :-) I now have
an idea about it, thanks - and can add it to the list of gremlins to wonder
about when docs go ka-blooey! ;-)

Regards,
Ed.

On 5/12/07, Joanne Wittenbrook <jwittenbrook -at- ameritech -dot- net> wrote:
>
> --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
>   ----------------------------
>   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.
>
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