Indesign CS Times New Roman PS Issue

[scasella99]

I am using Indesign CS 3.0.1. I have to use Times New Roman PS for a clients project. When I apply the TNR PS Roman to the file its appearance is correct. When I quit out of Indesign and reopen the file the font changes to bold and I cannot change it back to Roman. In the Type drop down menu where you select the font TNR is selected and in the fly out bold is checked it will not let me select roman.

Any ideas, I have to start this project very soon.

 

[scasella99]

This is scasella

I forgot to mention in my query that I am using Mac OS X 10.3.8, Dual 867 MHz PowerPC G4 786 mb memory

 

[jmgalvin]

Are you sure that you're selecting the the right font? The postscript name is TimesNewRomanPS. The bold version is TimesNewRomanPSBol. They might show up on your machine as TimesNewRom. Times-Roman is the PS version of Times.

If you use a font manager, you could check that all the PS versions of TNR are installed & active. You could also check where it's installed and that you have access to that fonts folder.

By the way, one of the easiest ways to check if you have PS versions of fonts installed and active is to launch IllCS if you have it. Start a new doc adn put in a word. Then go to your wysiwyg fonts menu. PS fonts are designated by the Adobe a.

Of courde the font could be corrupt and then you could reinstall a fesh copy.

 

[scasella99]

This is the onley TNR PS I have, it was sent by our clients on a CD (possibly their copy is corrupted, we are having a meeting later today) The only font manager we have is fontbook. I have no duplicate copies in font manager when I select the TNR bold, italic, bolditalc, and roman they all show up with the correct name.

FYI I made a new file without the clients templates and used TNR Roman on text and it viewed and printed okay. I quit out of Indesign and reopened the file and the text went to bold and cannot be changed, it prints like this as well.

I believe we may need to get a fresh copy from somewhere else other than our clients.

If you have any other thoughts please post them and Thanks.

 

[texasjoe]

We had problems when using both Times and Times New Roman fonts.

We ran into difficulties whenever both fonts were used in the same document.

Our solution was to get rid of Times.

Problems solved.

 

[scasella99]

Thanks texasjoe. We did resolve the problem and after trying several solutions, and removing times was one of them. Also we had timesNR in the Indesign fonts folder and on the system. When I removed one the bold disappeared but I had also got rid of times as well.

Thanks for everyones help. Now does anyone know why Indesign is so sluggish. We have pleanty of memory, not an overload of art or fonts. I never used it before so maybe this is what it is like.

 

[jmgalvin]

Actually, you might be light on RAM. You said you have 768 megs.

OSX, like XP, eats up a lot RAM & VRAM. We don't run a graphics machine with less than 1.25 gigs of RAM. When you run out of physical ran, OSX is gonna go to the hard drive and draw virtual memory. Things slow down a lot at the point.

If you want to see how much RAM you're using go to Hard Drive/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.

Right now I have Safari, Entourage, Acrobat pro & Indesign running, but no docs open other than this safari window. Activity Monitor tells me that I'm using 729 megs of RAM. Indesign is usiing 118 megs with nothing open. Acrobat is using 80 megs with nothing open. Safari is using 52 with 1 window & 1 tab open & Entourage 22 with nothing open.

Open a simple 4 page ID doc, throw in some eps and tiffs, drop shadow some test and watch your Ram usage jump. Open Illustrator at the same time, do some fancy stuff and watch your ram usage go up more. Then open a 600 dpi Photoshop file and watch things soar.

In the meantime, you can go to the ID View menu/Display Performance and check your setting. If High Quality, you can reduce that & turn off Object Level settings. That will speed things up, but things won't look as nice as you work.