![]() It clears up quite a bit about why this font format should indeed go away. I did a search on Adobe's site for "Type 1" and found this interview with an Adobe spokesperson who explains why Type 1 is being eliminated. Here's something else everyone who uses Type 1 fonts may find interesting. Knowing that some OpenType fonts are also showing reflow/kerning/leading issues, I'm going to supply a link to this thread in Apple's bug reporting site and see what they say. There's bound to be issues that weren't there before. Not only did Apple rewrite the OS as 64 bit, they rewrote the whole thing in Cocoa. SL isn't the minor release that it looks to be. I expect users to find more such things as Snow Leopard gets uses more and more use. Then the whole problem could be a system issue. Supposed to be the exact same Mac and PC Type 1 font, say both from Adobe, but if you build the document on one platform and then display it on the other, text reflows slightly anyway.Īctually, that's good to know. Yup, kind of like the old reflow issue between Mac and Windows. The change to OTF will result is a "marginal" amount of reflow due the differences is the code. The result is that if you've used that font in a standing document and substitute your converted OT font, the ornament will disappear in the document because the app is still trying to read the glyph from its original font position. So when you convert the font, they glyphs all get moved beyond the 256th glyph position in what is at least closer to their correct unicode spot. The Type 1 font has the glyphs in the normal text positions, such as a-z, but the font positions themselves have unicode names rather than the glyph name for that position. Some aren't actually a bug, but annoying anyway. Yes, there are some oddities when using TransType also. Budget and project schedules will answer these questions. Knowing the nature of the problem, I am resigned to making the transition. I'm guessing that it may be similar to the legacy file reflow that occurred from Quark v4.11 to v5/6 (although that had a whole series or other bugs that I do not want to revisit). I do expect similar results in Snow Leopard.Ī short discussion with Adobe confirmed my suspicions. But these experiments on with Quark in Leopard. previous as a PS Type 1 font in Quark/Snow Leopard. display type that had shift (down) more than 12 pts. I subsequently opened up Quark document and discovered a couple of reflow instances due to different horizontal metrics and the vertical metric was just enough to make the 6 pt. Converting the single file into new folder yielded the right font with the correct call number. Doing a single font conversion into the same folder didn't correct the problem. For example Univers 57 (Regular Condensed) actually displayed and printed as Univers 47 (Light Condensed). FontXChange dumps all of them into one folder and some call numbers are incorrect. I did notice some errors, especially when the family of fonts originated in multiple folders. I batch converted ALL my fonts (in the neighborhood or 4,000 finished OTF files) last night in about 30 minutes with FontXChange. It is apparent that the transition to OTF is inevitable. Anyone else had this issue? Is Apple going to patch this or are there any workarounds? When they do, are all the files I have now fixed going to re-flow with poor vertical spacing in the opposite direction? When I send my collected files to people running 10.5, are my text fixes going to effect how the documents are displayed on their machines? I can't have this, I would have expected Apple of all developers to take this into consideration, especially with the volume of designers that pay the extra cash use their products. So far I have seen this as a major problem resulting in alot of reformatting on several occasions. It happens with some TrueType and OpenType fonts as well, while some others are not subject to the spacing issues. ![]() This is because an extra bit of vertical padding is being added at the top of my text. I open my first flash doc, activate Univers PostScript and I notice my whole layout has gone sour. ![]() That said, not long (a couple hours) after I made the jump to Snow Leopard, I had work to do. I am a graphic designer, I work in Quark and the Adobe Suite, with Suitcase Fusion 2. Installed Snow Leopard on the first day, not a good idea.
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