Most of the fonts that I use are not free or come from Adobe Font Folio
OpenType edition. It doesn't happen with all fonts, but it is definitely
a problem with the Macromedia programs (I think this is a problem in
Freehand and Fireworks also, though I haven't tested that in a while)
since this problem doesn't exist in other programs (like adobe's). So I
really think this is a bug in the framework, and that workarounds should
only be considered in that light (meaning, Adobe/Macromedia should fix
this, so we don't have to employ workarounds).
I'm also pretty sure that this happens with PostScript outline fonts
(OpenType can contain either TrueType or PostScript outlines), but I'll
keep a closer eye on that, and let you know if I find something out that
differs from this description. Also, the fonts that I've converted with
CrossFont have all always been Mac PostScript fonts. I originally
thought this was a problem with CrossFont, but have since learned that
this affects other cross platform fonts as well (OpenType).
Kevin N.
Adrian Penn wrote:
Hello.
This would make sense I think. However, I'm nearly certain that the font we'd used and experienced problems with, Rotis, is an Adobe font (of one flavor or another) and not a free Truetype font. I'll check in a couple days and report back if I learn anything of interest.
Thanks!
-Adrian
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From: Roman Blöth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 4/26/2006 11:50 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Font jumping cross platform
Hello there,
Adrian Penn schrieb:
I've also experienced this problem or something very similar.
I was given a handful of .fla files for a project a while back. All of these
files were authored on a Mac. When we opened them on a PC - many of the text
fields looked substantially different. The vertical positioning was off a bit
as described here but worse still, the leading between characters was
different. It looked fine when opening the same file in Flash on a Mac. The
leading appeared much tighter on the PC than on the Mac. If we fixed the
leading on the PC then it was too spaced-out on the Mac.
If memory serves, we only saw this problem with one of the fonts used in the
project. I think it was Rotis. I do not recall its format. I'm curious to go
have a look again based on this thread however.
Not being able to resolve the issue on the PC - we were left with having to do
the final compile on a Mac.
Same same...
Here we face this phenomenon every day - unfortunately normally
designers work on Mac whileas programmers work on PCs.
I assume it has to do with the fonts you use - I believe ATM fonts on a
PC (using ATM - though I thought since w2k you wouldn't need ATM any
more to use ATM fonts) work much better than TTF. And probably
(expensive) high quality fonts also work better than one of those
thousands free TTF fonts out there...
Regards,
Roman.
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