Re: [WinMac] X-platform font wobblies

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:04:50 -0500

At 7:23 AM -0500 9/15/99, John Nurick wrote:
>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.

        BIG MISTAKE! Go out and buy ATM for all your PC's - it's
going to end up a LOT cheaper in the long run than all the hassles
you are going to have dealing with TrueType differences.

>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 don't know Transmac, so I can't help there.

        I would suggest that you find a Mac with a floppy drive, copy
the files onto it, enable file sharing on that machine and then copy
them from there to the PowerBook.

>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.

        Really? Well that doesn't help things, does it :(.

>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?

        You're just asking for trouble - use Type 1!

        There are TT editors for the Mac, check places like
VersionTracker and such for a listing.

Leonard

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