On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:43 PM, David K Watson wrote: > I don't regularly use layout or presentation software, so the font > problem is not an issue for me, but it doesn't seem like a particularly > big one for anyone. As I understand it, is only a problem with > character spacing for Type 1 postscript fonts, and then essentially > only for Keynote or QuarkXPress, and then only for documents > created in Tiger or Leopard and moved to Snow Leopard.
The font problem is worse than you report. It messes up TrueType and OpenType fonts too. Some apologists for Apple say that you can just adjust the type specs to get spacing back to right, but these are hopeless programmers who know nothing about typography. The numbers that they say to randomly adjust have meaning, they are not random. A professional knows what these numbers should be. Apple has fundamentally broken the system by which type is specified. Clueless NeXTies have struck again. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
