Rules I learned by asking about Cross-Platform Font Use - THANK FOLKS!
• You can check each font in Font Book. Highlight a font and hit
command-i. This will display info on the font.
• never mix TT and Type 1 fonts
• All are” cross platform," except scripts like Arabic and Hindi, where
Windows and Mac use different rendering technologies.
• True Type - Looks good on OS X and Windows.
• Never mix TT and Type 1 fonts - the math can cause imagesetters to go
into cardiac arrest.
• If not designed for Clear Type on Windows may be a bit blocky when
Clear Type is turned on.
• Virtually all the decent OTF fonts are exorbitant, and companies are
reluctant to design for OTF
• OpenOffice.org is pretty much a typesetting disaster to begin with.
• You can't do serious publishing with Open Office or Neo-Office - you
need Quark or InDesign (you'll get a bunch of Open Type fonts if you buy
InDesign anyway; I'm not sure about Quark). You can get away with
Illustrator and/or Photoshop.
• If you are doing serious publishing - stick to your Mac - even an old
Mac.
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