C8 - fonts cut off slightly

Grimm, Kenneth kgrimm at sastandardtimes.com
Fri Apr 20 09:58:05 CDT 2007 

Verified on CRT screen as well.

Used Geneva, Helvetica, Formata (.dfont and Type 1's). The glaring most
noticeable example, the last stem of the "m" disappears entirely at various
point sizes, 100% zoom factor, all fonts.

Ken


On 4/20/07 9:36 AM, "Grimm, Kenneth" <kgrimm at sastandardtimes.com> wrote:

> Our artists are complaining about this as well. All Type 1 fonts.
> 
> LCD screens only, the CRTs seem to be fine (anecdotal evidence for the CTR
> screen report, I have not been able to witness that first-hand). The
> rendering at smaller point sizes will slice and dice the characters, if a
> stem on a character is small enough, it disappears entirely (like 8 pt
> type). Once enlarged, they render correctly.
> 
> I have turned on the anti-aliasing in Creator and checked all the display
> options in the system controls. No effect on this. Older Creator (Pro 7) is
> fine, this is a new thing for Creator 8 Pro.
> 
> Creator 8 is the only program exhibiting this.
>  
> Ken Grimm
> IT Systems Manager/Technical Specialist
> San Angelo Standard-Times
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> 
> On 4/20/07 8:11 AM, "Jeffrey Mehlhorn" <jmehlhorn at matthewsintl.com> wrote:
> 
>> By the way, all our production fonts we use are PostScript Type 1 fonts.
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/20/07 9:09 AM, "Jeffrey Mehlhorn" <jmehlhorn at matthewsintl.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Pretty much all the fonts. Some worse than others just because of the style.
>>> Sometimes you can see the tops and the bottom of the fonts sliced off
>>> slightly, and sometimes just the top or just the bottoms. It is really
>>> noticeable when you compare the two Creator versions side by side (7.0.2 vs
>>> 8.0) after typing some text (O's, S's, etc.).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 4/20/07 8:44 AM, "Steve Mills" <smills at multi-ad.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 20, 2007, at 07:10:57, Jeffrey Mehlhorn wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Is it just me, or are all the letters (like the O¹s, S¹s, etc.
>>>>> getting cut
>>>>> off ever so slightly on the tops and the bottoms of the letters
>>>>> when they
>>>>> are typed? I just recently noticed this. The bolder the letter, the
>>>>> more
>>>>> noticeable. The bad part about it, is that it print this way too!
>>>>> If I type
>>>>> the same letters in Creator 7.0.2, they look fine.
>>>> 
>>>> All fonts or just a few? Somebody found a small batch of the default
>>>> OSX .dfonts that exhibit this problem a few days ago.
>>>> 
>>>> _________________________________________________________
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>>>> Senior Software Architect                         MultiAd
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