Open Type Fonts

[Frank Ganz]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Penny [mailto:penny at bookcomp.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:45 PM
>To: techsupport at yandy.com
>Subject: Open Type Fonts
>
>
>Afternoon,
>
>Do the "newer" Adobe Open Type fonts, work with YandY TeX, and
>DVI window?
>
>Penny
>
>

First off, I'm giving my response without judgment of any kind. I just want to help illuminate the issue. I understand that your situation may not be the same.

I had an author of ours ask this question some time ago and it turned out that the assessment of what font format a particular font was in was solely based on the logo _O_ for what one might assume stands for _OpenType_. On Windows 2000 Pro, which is what I am working with, True Type fonts carry that symbol. While Y&Y does not support TrueType fonts if you use those in artwork alone (EPS files) it doesn't matter. Keep in mind, though, that professional output studios (if this is going to a printer) often don't support TrueType fonts. Your printer driver can be set up to substitute TrueType with Type 1 fonts. Other issues may arise with this option. Most of the time it works fine. If you can avoid True Type fonts altogether, that would be preferrable.

Frank