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Melonious
Citizen
Username: Melonious
Post Number: 87
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 9:20 pm: |     |
I labored over my company typeface (Forte) and my product logo (using Cooper Black) on my laptop and WindowsME. Then I got a super duper new desktop with Office 2000 or whatever is the new super duper package. I opened up my artwork and behold, Times New Roman. Uch, ugly, ugly ugly.
I went to the Microsoft.net site and can buy these fonts, but will I just have problems when I send my docs to other people who don't have the fonts? Will they just think, eeyw, ugly logo. I'm assuming that if the recipients of my e-docs don't have these fonts (perhaps they have fallen out of favor with the font gods, are out of fashion, etc.), they will not be able to read them?
Crud, crud, crud. |
upondaroof
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 530
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 9:46 pm: | |
"I'm assuming that if the recipients of my e-docs don't have these fonts (perhaps they have fallen out of favor with the font gods, are out of fashion, etc.), they will not be able to read them?"
Sure they will, but in "Times New Roman. Uch, ugly, ugly ugly."
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bets
Supporter
Username: Bets
Post Number: 22695
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 12:27 am: | |
Cooper Black and Forte are standard fonts (I have them in MS Word 2003), so there's got to be something wrong with the way your office suite is installed. |
Eric
Citizen
Username: Ericactive
Post Number: 84
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 7:55 am: | |
What type of doc are you sending?
If you're sending pdf files you won't have to worry. If your sending Word files the user needs the font on their system. To avoid this create a .jpg of your logo and insert that into your Word doc.
I don't have either of those fonts on my mac.
You can take the fonts off the old machine and install them in the new one. Do a search for them on the old computer and email them to yourself or burn them to a disc. |
Bailey
Citizen
Username: Baileymac
Post Number: 153
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 8:18 am: | |
I just checked my Mac, I have Cooper Black, but not Forte.
Maybe you could send your e-docs as .pdf's?
That way, recipients will see what you see, even without those fonts installed. |
Melonious
Citizen
Username: Melonious
Post Number: 89
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 9:25 am: | |
Eric, once I email them to my new computer do I just drop them into the file where all the fonts are kept (and they will appear on my docs and in my font menu), or do I need to do some kind of installation? |
AlleyGater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1133
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 10:29 am: | |
You can convert your logo into an image and the font won't be an issue anymore. The font used in the document however won't be seen by anyone unless you make the file into a PDF |
Melonious
Citizen
Username: Melonious
Post Number: 90
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 10:48 am: | |
Fonts copied! My stuff looks as I intended it. Thanks for the help, everybody. |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 8463
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 11:24 am: | |
Logos should NEVER contain type not converted to outlines for the obvious reason at hand. Best format is an .eps file or similar vector format that can be used in a PC/Word environment (or whatever you use). JPEGs won't print cleanly and TIFFs will make the file size too large. |
Melonious
Citizen
Username: Melonious
Post Number: 91
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 11:43 am: | |
Dave, does this mean I do as SAVE AS with the file format being Outline/RTF, or do I need a specific program or techno thingy to do that?
Thanks for your help, y'all. |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 8464
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 1:08 pm: | |
By 'outlines' I mean software that traces the curves of the letters and renders them as a vector image. I think the 'outline' you are referring to is a universal document format.
I use Adobe Illustrator to do this, but you could probably find a way around it in Word by saving typing the logo (use largest letters possible) in a separate document and then saving it as a PDF (be sure to use "embed fonts" option); finally, import the resulting PDF document back into your Word document as an image and resize it. When you save it will retain its appearance if the PDF was created and embedded correctly. |
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