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TrueType fonts?
Can anyone tell me the difference between 'classic'
TrueType fonts and "Outlined" TrueType fonts? Under C:/Windows/Fonts, the little icon is a TTF for the former and a script O for the latter. Either seems to work in most applications, but a program called PDF Creator does not like the older TTF ones. Any ideas? Thanks! |
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TrueType fonts?
Do you possibly mean Open Type fonts when you refer to "Outlined"?
I don't know anything about PDF Creator. As something off the top of my head, I suppose one could open the misbehaving TrueType font in a font editor such as Font Lab and save it as an Open Type font. That might reform the file into something PDF Creator will use. As for the difference(s) between the two font file formats and features, best to look to authoritative resources. http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/ttspec.htm http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/ttandt1.htm http://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/ http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/p...=IWS-Chapter08 http://www.rdg.ac.uk/CSC/Topic/Pubpc...spec/home.html http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/tt/tt.htm http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ame=%20&fsize= http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/t...type/index.jsp http://www.agfamonotype.com/isv/opentype.asp Tom Ferguson MSMVP-DTS "Jim Wood" wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me the difference between 'classic' TrueType fonts and "Outlined" TrueType fonts? Under C:/Windows/Fonts, the little icon is a TTF for the former and a script O for the latter. Either seems to work in most applications, but a program called PDF Creator does not like the older TTF ones. Any ideas? Thanks! |
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TrueType fonts?
Jim Wood wrote:
Can anyone tell me the difference between 'classic' TrueType fonts and "Outlined" TrueType fonts? Under C:/Windows/Fonts, the little icon is a TTF for the former and a script O for the latter. Either seems to work in most applications, but a program called PDF Creator does not like the older TTF ones. Any ideas? Thanks! Erm, 'O' doesn't mean 'outlined' it stands for 'OpenType' which means that these fonts are cross-platform (i.e they can be used in Windows and under the Mac OS without any form of conversion. I don't know about any other platforms, e.g. Linux). PDF Creator is rubbish. If you want a cheap way to create PDFs, suggest you take a look at PDF X-Change (www.docu-track.com). It's only about £40 and is the best PDF creator I've used that wasn't the original. |
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TrueType fonts?
Cerridwen: Thanks for the info and for the link to PDF X-
Change. They now have a 'lite' version for $20 that would fill my needs nicely. I'll download their 1-day demo and see how it performs with the older TrueType fonts, which worked under Adobe's PDF Writer just fine. Cheers, Jim. |
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