Re: [WinMac] Word fonts and format for Win/Mac users

Ari Davidow(ari[at]ivritype.com)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:14:46 -0400

At 07:57 AM 6/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
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>>From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
>
>> At 7:14 AM -0700 6/23/99, Darron Spohn wrote:
>>
>>>No 3) Corollary to Rule #2: Never, ever, use TrueType fonts.
>>
>> Nothing wrong with TT fonts - they have their advantages.
>
>And those advantages are blown away completely the first time someone uses
>TT fonts in a DTP application, or (horrors) embeds one in a graphic which
>you use in a DTP application.
>
>I banned TrueType fonts from my department when I joined this company. As I
>mentioned in my first reply, we do not have font problems around here. We
>use only Adobe Type 1 Postscript fonts. That means all Windows users have
>ATM installed.

There is no technical reason to support that decision, although it
is certainly possible that bad fonts (TrueType or Postscript) could
cause problems, or that conflicts occur in the standard font set of
both TrueType and Postscript versions of Times, Helvetica, Palatino,
etc. are present at the same time--that is a common source
of conflict, as has to do with two sets of data conflicting.

It is certainly a silly, and superstitious-at-best statement that
DTP programs can't/won't/ or experience difficulties with professional
TrueType fonts.

A better technical choice might be to ensure that fonts aren't
duplicated, including that they aren't duplicated between PostScript
and TrueType versions.

As Leonard has noted, both formats support high quality fonts. Most
typographers feel that TrueType offers the absolute best quality. In
the marketplace it has certainly been true that there is more junk
TT than PS, if only because most offices and homes have TT printers,
not PostScript, and those markets aren't going to invest in high-quality
fonts for business use.

ari

Ari Davidow
ari@ivritype.com
http://www.ivritype.com/

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