TBH helvetica neue was a specific problem and knee-jerk reaction to many font problems I used to get at a TV station I worked at, it was the house font for on screen text, subtitles etc. different people would somehow end up with different versions of the same font around the place, and there were endless work arounds, including copies of the font called helvetica neue 2, 3 real helvetica neue hellvetiker and so on. as well as messy but horrible work arounds like replacing a capital A from helvetica which rendered as a box, with a capital A from Arial... cos on screen it looked about the same .
Rather than wade through the long explanation, you could go with the equally valid answer of: Because its ALWAYS Helveitca On 6 May 2014 08:48, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 May 2014, at 18:57, Toby Leighton wrote: > > Helvetia is part of apple's "in use by system things,"... >> > > Clever deduction... > > I used to know a guy who always advised people to check theirfonts were > not corrupted when strange things happened to their OS. Turns out it > happens more than you think and does stranger things than you think (this > was OS 9, I wonder if it's still the same?) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
