[WinMac] X-platform font wobblies
John Nurick(jnurick[at]lrconsulting.co.uk)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:23:54 -0500
Hello all,
The powers that be have decided that the firm's new image needs new
fonts, and we seem to be running into some cross-platform problems.
The choice is the Frutiger family (#45 to #76). Since we run mostly PCs
without ATM and with PCL printers, I ordered Truetype in both Mac and PC
format, all from Linotype.
Problem 1:
Fonts arrived on floppy. Powerbook doesn't have floppy. I used Transmac
to copy the Mac font files into a shared folder on the NT server. The
Mac was logged in to the network via Dave. It found the folder OK but
didn't recognise the files as fonts.
I'd copied them twice, using both the "MacBinary" option of TransMac and
the "Resource" option (since they seemed to have empty data forks). Any
suggestions?
Problem 2:
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.
It appears that this doesn't happen on the Mac. Documents coming from
our designer (as Word 98 templates) contain fonts such as "Frutiger 66
Italic" which Office 97/Win9x doesn't recognise, and documents going the
other way seem to produce a slanted or bolded roman when they should
produce the italic or bold font.
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?
BTW, there's no Panose information in the Linotype files.
TIA,
John
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