Cross Platform Fonts help 1

[kdubbie]

Hi, this is my first post for this forum and I want to thank you all in advance for reading.

My issue is that I work on a PC and people I do business with work on MACs.

I have downloaded a program (cross font) in which I can convert their T1 fonts to Open Type, so I can use them. I have done this successfully many times, but their is one font family that doesn't follow suit, and that's the Helvetica Neue family. Out of the 60 or so fonts only about 30 of them show up in my drop down menu in all programs. Moreover, they don't copy the file name to the drop down menu correctly. (as an example: Instead of HelveticaNeue-ExtObl, I get HelveticaNeue 66472.)

In addition, with only a few of them can I choose a different style from the font style drop down menu. (i.e. bold, italic) Each version of the font, HNBold, HNItalic is a seperate font in my fonts list.

Also, I downloaded a font manager (maintype) and I noticed something as I was viewing the HelvNeue family, I noticed that each font had a font name and a file name. Every font's file name shows the correct version, but under the Font Name column, I have about 6 HelveticaNeue Regulars, and about 6 Helvetica Neue Condense, that sounds fishy to me. I think that might have something to do with why a lot of them aren't showing up.

Can anyone tell me how to correctly convert or install the fonts so I can use them all?

Sorry for the long post, and I would be greatly appreciated for any assistance with this issue

Thank you very very much.

Kdubbie


p.s. I tried adding them to the Indesign CS3 font folder, and that didn't work. ATM doesn't work with Open Type and ATM light ( the upgrade to ATM deluxe, supposed to work with Open Type) failed to open after I downloaded it from the Adobe site.

 

[eugenetyson]

My advice would be to buy the font. There is nothing worse than thinking you have the correct font and then you get back something completely different.

You should of course be buying opentype fonts, and the place you do business with should have opentype fonts if they are taking in work from other people.

I've had limited success with font managers on Windows systems, I don't use them now to be honest. Actually it's very easy to manage fonts by yourself without an external program.

I just make another folder called Fonts not in Use and move them there, they don't show up in the system then.


However, I'm not all negative. I think that just because you're getting 6 different versions of the same name, I think you should look at them and then check the little window underneath that for the style of the font, I believe that the font style is there.

 

[kdubbie]

Hey, thank you very much much and you are right with that each font regardless of the same name carries different styles. I can see that when I view them in maintype or windows font viewer. But I guess I can't figure out why that style doesn't translate over to all programs.

Yeah and for most of the windows underneath, it doesn't show additional font styles. Just one, usually bold. Kind of frustrating, but I think I am going to just have to buy the font.

Thanks again