Re: OTF Fonts in PowerPoint - Compatibility MAC-PC

From: Steve Rindsberg (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:28:10 EDT

In article <19bb37e4.0409161128.5000747a@posting.google.com>, JPenSuisse wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Okay, you got me. The bold font is not installed on the PC. In fact,
> there is no bold available. Just a "heavy" font, which I guess is
> bold.

Not necessarily; in fact, probably not.

> 1.) This does not change the fact, however, that the fonts are ever
> so slightly differnt even if not bolded.

Noted.

> 2.) Also, we can then draw the conclusion that PP2004 and PP2003 just
> compensate or "fake" the bolded versions of fonts much differently.
> And this reamains a compatibility issue.

Under Windows (and I suspect Mac) the application doesn't do the fakery; it
asks Windows to GimmeText("Here's the text",Arial,Bold,42pt) and Windows does
its best to supply a bitmap that meets spec. If it can't find Arial in Bold,
it fakes it from Arial regular/medium. If it can't find Arial, it substitutes
another font altogether.

In at least some versions of Windows PPT, there's a bit of mapping before PPT
hands off the font request to Windows, mostly just to account for the slight
differences between the same fonts on Mac vs PC (gone now, I think, but common
a few years back).

As to 2004, any conclusion would have to depend on your removing the Bold
version of the font. From the many places where it might live on an OS X
system (and trust me, you don't want any advice I might offer on that subject!
... totally ignorant or nearly so.)

>
> Thanks for your comment. I think I understand this better now!
>
> JP
> 

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