Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Type fonts

On 05/26/2012 04:25 PM, J.A. de Vries wrote:
> > Hi Guy,
> >
> > I use lots of OpenType Fonts (.otf files)) in LibreOffice on my Debian
> > system. Never had any trouble with them at all. I figure you shouldn't
> > have a problem under Windows either, but I can't verify that for you as
> > I don't have that OS at hand.
> I am sorry. You were asking about Mac. Should have read better.
>
> The code to support those typefaces apparently is available in
> LibreOffice, so I don't expect any trouble coming from that angle.
> However I know just about nothing about Mac, so I don't know if that
> platform supports OTF at all. I guess it should, because Adobe has
> always targetted that platform as one of their main markets.
>
> Grx HdV

If you contact me off the list, I can send you a OTF font and you can 
try it on your Mac.  I have over 100,000 fonts in my collection and many 
of them are OTF.  As I said before, I do have a complete[?] Adobe font 
library from before 2006.  I have Adobe fonts in OTF and TTF formats.

I tend to use TTF if I have a font in both format styles.  But that is a 
choice and not a requirement.  I have so many fonts, I can use a 
non-Adobe version that looks 99.9% like the Adobe version.  This way, if 
I need to deal with passing documents to others for shared editing 
duties, I can pass on the font file as well.  You should not do that 
with Adobe's licenses.

So, contact me at webmaster@krackedpress.com off the list and I can 
attach an OTF font to the reply so you can test out if Mac has a problem 
with OTF.  If you know of a non-Adobe font you want to try, I may have 
it in ODF format.

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What are the font names you are going to use?  Those font names have 
many versions.  You will need to know the exact version name[s] if you 
are going to deal with a magazine and its exact font formatting.

Stone comes in:
      Stone Informal
      Stone Informal Std
      Stone Sans
      Stone Sans Std
      Stone Serif
      Stone Serif Std

and Avenir comes in:
      Avenir
      Avenir LTS Std

plus those names comes in various names like:
      Bold,
      Italic,
      Bold Italic,
      Black,
      Book,
      Book Oblique,
      Heavy,
      Light,
      Medium,
      Oblique,
      Roman,
            etc.,
                etc..



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