Open Type fonts

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#1

Hello,

For a magazine, the editor uses an Open Type font from Adobe.
Are there any problems using such a font in LO on my Mac?
He has a license for the font for me, but I first want to make sure I can
use it in LO on my Mac.
I ask this beacuse I have some doubts when MS and Adobe call something
'open'...

#2

Am 26.05.2012 11:59, Guy Voets wrote:

Hello,

For a magazine, the editor uses an Open Type font from Adobe.
Are there any problems using such a font in LO on my Mac?
He has a license for the font for me, but I first want to make sure I can
use it in LO on my Mac.
I ask this beacuse I have some doubts when MS and Adobe call something
'open'...

You are the one to find out. It costs you nothing to download this software and give a try. We don't have the Open Type fonts you are talking about.

#3

the whole family 280 $. I'm talking about the Avenir and ITC Stone families.
Anybody knows how they behave on Mac & LO?

#4

Am 26.05.2012 11:59, Guy Voets wrote:

Hello,

For a magazine, the editor uses an Open Type font from Adobe.
Are there any problems using such a font in LO on my Mac?
He has a license for the font for me, but I first want to make sure I can
use it in LO on my Mac.
I ask this beacuse I have some doubts when MS and Adobe call something
'open'...

You are the one to find out. It costs you nothing to download this
software and give a try. We don't have the Open Type fonts you are talking
about.

Thanks, Andrea, but they're not exactly free. A single font costs 26 $,

the whole family 280 $. I'm talking about the Avenir and ITC Stone families.
Anybody knows how they behave on Mac & LO?

Sorry, Andreas... with S

#5

You are talking about the .OTF font files - right.
It there any reason you are not using .TTF files?

As for .OTF fonts from Adobe, Avenir 45 Book and Stone Sans;

    I went to my Adobe collection extracted one fonts from those names
    and installed then on my Ubuntu 10.04 system. Then I looked for
    them in LO. They showed up and seemed to work fine.

I do not own a Mac, so I cannot say for that OS, but it does show up in LO with my system.

I have Adobe fonts that have a file date of 2006, so I do not know if Adobe changed anything since then. I have [I believe] their complete font set in my collection. I have the TTF and OTF fonts stored in different zipped files. TTF - 191 MB zipped file, and OTF - 137 MB zipped file.

#6

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.

Grx HdV

#7

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

#8

I just entered "install opentype fonts mac os x" in a web search.
One of the links was from the Adobe website. This website should tell
you what you need to know.

--Dan

#9

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35538
[Writer does not remember formatting (font selection) with complex font
families]

More:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=all&product=LibreOffice&content=OpenType>

Recommend that you test at least one before you lay out too much money.
Note: you can always convert to ttf - but test to ensure you do not have
additional litgature issues.

#10

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.

#11

Andreas ,Guy Voets,

OpenType works fine for us on Windows, the fonts are also exported to PDF.

greetz

Fernand

#12

Works fine with Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04

Since MacOSX was based on a version of Linux, it might work for it was well.

I offered to send the poster a copy of an OTF font to see how it works on the Mac.

That way, we all will know how well a good OTF font works on MacOSX.

I have a large number of OTF fonts in my 100,000+ font collection. Many would work fine as Adobe replacements. All I would need to do is know the font name[s] and search my collection for it. I have an Adobe collection, but I tend not to use them, but free version of look-alike fonts. BUT, he need to deal with OTF Adobe fonts on his Mac.

#13

W dniu 27.05.2012 21:37, webmaster-Kracked_P_P pisze:I
      have a large number of OTF fonts in my 100,000+ font collection.Private or public collection?Is possible to download?--Mieszko KaczmarczykAdministrator ITWetzel Sp. z o.o.Duchnw, ul. Kresowa 805-462 WizownaPhone:+4822780-20-00ext.219Direct:+48 22 780-20-19Fax:+48 22 780-20-03Kapitazakadowy: 600.000,00 z.Sd Rejonowy dla M.ST. Warszawy w Warszawie, XXI WydziaGospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru SdowegoNIP:951-00-43-131Regon:010799082KRS:0000058229Zarzd Spki:
              Prezes Zarzdu - Ewa Dzwonkowska, Czonek Zarzdu - Detlev
              LiebschwagerPart of the WETZEL PROCESSING GROUP: Group Management -
              Martin Hellweg, Detlev Liebschwager, Aglaia Lthy
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          necessary!

#14

What is this message trying to say?
Anyone?

Something seems wrong with their mail system to jumble up it like so.

#15

What is this message trying to say?
Anyone?

I have written explanations below each quote.
HTH

> have a large number of OTF fonts in my 100,000+ font collection.

--- Quote from previous message (by webmaster-Kracked_P_P)

> Private or public collection?Is possible to download?

--- Question from poster (Mieszko Kaczmarczyk)

> --Mieszko KaczmarczykAdministrator ITWetzel Sp. z o.o.Duchnw, ul.

Kresowa 805-462 WizownaPhone:+4822780-20-00ext.219Direct:+48 22 780-20-19Fax:
+48 22 780-20-03Kapitazakadowy: 600.000,00 z.Sd Rejonowy dla M.ST. Warszawy w
Warszawie, XXI WydziaGospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru
SdowegoNIP:951-00-43-131Regon:010799082KRS:0000058229Zarzd Spki:

> Prezes Zarzdu - Ewa Dzwonkowska, Czonek Zarzdu - Detlev
> LiebschwagerPart of the WETZEL PROCESSING GROUP: Group
> Management - Martin Hellweg, Detlev Liebschwager, Aglaia
> Lthy
>
> Save a tree - only print this message if it's absolutely necessary!

--- Bunch of trash required by Polish law in official messages from companies.
Law was set up in nineties or so and was created with paper messages in mind.
In the meanwhile, Internet became common, and law was also applied to
electronic messages (e-mail).
There are way too many people in Poland who can't configure their e-mail client
to separate private messages from messages sent on behalf of companies they
work for.

#16

Hi :slight_smile:
I think it's not clear what the O.P. wanted.  Webmaster's collection is private but is mostly collected from a wide variety of free sites over the years.  Some of the fonts are proprietary but there are quite a lot of copy-left ones that are probably free.

I'm not sure if that helps at all !!
Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile: