Re: FLASH: MM's Flash 4 wish list (re: PC's and Postscript Fonts)

[Garret Parsons2]

Hi some people call me a Mac guru, I'm not comfortable with that term,but 

I do know a lot about the Mac. I too work in an environment with both Wintel

and Macs.

We had the same problem with Postscript Fonts and found out it was not Flash

causing the problem.


In our case we found out that the fonts on the Wintel side were not the same

type of PostScript Fonts. We bought the same set from Adobe for the Wintel

machines and installed ATM (very important) and all was fine. Some fonts

were corrupted on the Mac side and needed to be reinstalled. 


ATM is something you find on all most every Mac, but is almost always

missing on the Wintel machines I have come across. Some times just making

sure that this little utility is installed fixes a lot of problems. Memory

is the other facter we found on some machines, both Macs and Wintels. ATM

needs more memory if you are going to have lots of fonts open.




Hope this helps

-Garret


>Rusty,

>

>I brought this up some time ago, but did not pursue the issue beyond a brief

>comment after hearing that Flash did not support Postscript Fonts on the PC

>under '95 and that NT automatically converted them to TrueType.

>

>I have two machines I use for Flash: at work I'm on NT 4.0 SP 4; at home I'm

>in '95 OSR2. Anything I bring home from work includes Myriad Type 1 Multiple

>Master fonts in it because we've set that as a corporate standard. This font

>and a few others I've played with such as Nuevo and Tekton work fine for me

>on both machines. I've also generated new instances of the fonts and had

>those work. Someone said something about checking the font through turning

>antialiasing text on and off. I do that. It works. Both machines. I'm using

>ATM deluxe on both also.

>

>I'm not sure whether I'm confused or "lucky" or doing something right and

>different. If it makes a difference my default printers are all Postscript

>and I have Acrobat distiller installed with all its assistants. If there's

>anyway I can do to help, I'd be glad to. If you'd like to have your coworker

>send me a file using Tekton or Nueva or anything from the Freehand group to

>see if it works for me, I'd be glad to check. Don't know where we'd take

>this next, but that might be a place to start.

>

>len harrison

>instructional designer

>

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

>

>> -----Original Message-----

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> From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of Rusty

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>> Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 1:44 PM

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> To: flashershocker [dot] com; flashershocker [dot] com

>> Subject: Re: FLASH: MM's Flash 4 wish list

>>

>>

>> Yet another addition to the wish list. How about making the

>> PC versions capable of using Post Script fonts. I can't tell

>> you how frustrating it is to have to convert things to TT

>> fonts. My associate and I are on different machines. He's the

>> Mac guru and I am the PC guy. Sadly we cannot exchange files

>> between us because he is using the PS fonts and I am using PS

>> fonts that have been converted to TT. It still causes

>> problems but at least my system doesn't crash anymore.

>>

>

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