Font issues - C8 & dfont's

[Andy Wacht]

Yes, Steve I enlarged the missing commas file and I concur. The characters
appear to only be half-drawn, yet are practically invisible at normal size.
I will submit a bug for this issue.

As for the bullets, etc. it is happening with these system fonts:

Bigcaslon.dfont
Optima.dfont
HelveticaNeue.dfont
Cochin.dfont
Copperplate.dfont
Didot.dfont
Futura.dfont
GillSans.dfont
Papyrus.dfont
Zapfino.dfont

It is as if Creator isn't reading the character map properly, or has trouble
past the 128 character mark, or er, something... But feel free to slap me if
my amateurish engineering conjecture is off-base. I would like to avoid
creating postscript versions to sidestep the issue if possible. I generally
prefer to leave system fonts alone.

Thanks,
Andy-




On 4/12/07 6:34 PM, "Steve Mills" <smills at multi-ad.com> wrote:

> On Apr 12, 2007, at 17:10:23, Andy Wacht wrote:
> 
>> Forgive me for posting a potentially already posted issue (I can't
>> bring up
>> the search archives page) but I migrated our art dept. to C8 this
>> week. We
>> are experiencing some font issues.
>> 
>> The symptoms:
>> 
>> -- "bullets" coming out as different 'substituted' characters =
>> (Optima.dfont / HelveticaNeue.dfont)
> 
> Is this when typing new text or when opening pre-8.0 documents?
> 
>> -- Some characters not appearing on screen. (commas, periods =
>> Times.dfont)
> 
> Actually, comma and period are *barely* visible at sizes smaller than
> about 18pt. If you make them larger, you can see that only half the
> glyph is being rendered. That's pretty strange. I'd also expect
> semicolon and colon to have the same problem, yet they're OK. I
> hadn't seen this before. Please submit a bug if you haven't already.
> You could also try switching to a Type 1 font.
> 
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