Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!bu.edu!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!isle From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Font Harmony Message-ID: <24703@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 25 Sep 90 22:20:28 GMT References: Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Organization: Isle Systems - Waltham, MA Lines: 26 In article hallettJ@gemed writes: > >I've been getting some Adobe fonts lately and have noticed a problem. >It is generally accepted that Adobe is too lazy to combine the >typeface style families (ie. B Eurostile Bold -> Eurostile + BOLD Actually, it was a conscious decision by Adobe not to combine families. At first, I thought the policy stank and argued at length with someone from Adobe. In the end, he convinc me that they had made the right decision. For end users, it's probably OK to combine them since if you subsequently take them to a type bureau that uses the unharmonized version, your documents will still print. The other way around is not true. If you've produced something using each individual fonts instead of the different styles for each family and take it to a service bureau that hasn't harmonized, your documents won't print. The best solution, I think, is to leave them unharmonized and use Adobe Type Reunion. That way for simple families (Plain/Bold/Italic/BI) you can simply use the styles and for more complex familes, you can access the true face you desire via hierarchicals. Ken -- Ken Hancock | This account needs a new home in MA... Isle Systems | Can you provide a link for it? isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu | It doesn't bite... :-)