Great summary, Harold, and since we're not a publishing-specific group, can you explain what qualifies as "serious publishing"? Are you talking about color separations, file formats beyond postscript, or what? :)
Thanks much, filing this one for the record! Ben On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Harald Sundt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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