Re: Fonts Windows-MacOS (sync'ing fonts between)

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Francois,

One can buy Adobe-brand fonts one at a time, or in various groups and
collections.  Most of the major resellers of desktop publishing programs and
equipment offer fonts.  Furthermore, they don't "have to be" Adobe-brand; they
just have to be coordinated.

You will need one version of each font for each of the PC and for the Mac.  To
be completely legal, the second Mac you mentioned would require a third set.  

Some font makers will offer both Mac and PC versions of the very same font,
all at one price.

There are also programs available that can convert PC <-> Mac fonts.  This is
a bit trickier and more work, but it can be done.  The legal aspect of this is
that you can only legally do this if you have a license that permits you to do
it -- or if you have fonts that are "freeware" or "shareware".  However,
conversion programs do exist.  You may wish to see information at
http://www.fontlab.com about this.

In terms of buying fonts one attractive approach is to obtain (at low cost,
from Adobe or other makers) a CD that contains hundreds or thousands of
fonts.  The CD allows you to see what the fonts look like.  Then if you
actually want to purchase a font, you call (or otherwise contact) the seller
and pay for the ones you want and they give you a password that will enable
you to copy font from the CD to your computer.

In your role as Editor and Publisher, the only thing that you may find more
frustrating than the difficulties with color graphics and communications with
authors is font management.  

Good luck and have fun.

-- 
Jay Smith

e-mail: jay@jaysmith.com

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Francois Louis Nicolet wrote:
> 
> I am Editor and Publisher of a professional Magazine. We have two
> layouters, one working with FrameMaker on Windows, one with FrameMaker on
> MacOS. The documents are "assembled" to a Book (FrameMaker terminology) on
> another MacOS computer. How do I ensure that documents layouted (created)
> on Win and those created on Mac all end up with the same fonts?
> 
> We need only a small selection of fonts:
> - Times
> - Helvetica or Arial
> - Helvetica Narrow or Arial Narrow
> - Symbol (required by FrameMaker)
> - Zapf Dingbats
> 
> A speaker of Adobe (Switzerland) told me that full compatibility is
> guaranteed if we all use Adobe fonts. I understand from Adobe's Web site
> that only a large collection of fonts is available, costing more than a
> thousand USD.
> 
> I am thankful for any good advice.
> Best regards to all.
> 
> Francois Louis Nicolet    <nicolet@acm.org>
>

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