Reply To: Word vs. InD for prepping text

Bob–I agree. I've only mainly used it when a true type was problematic and I made it postscript, or vice-versa.Or if I had a font and it was damaged and I had to fix. Or where I had the printer font, but missing the screen font.

I've seen a lot of good fonts that were switched over to OpenType, but it was basically the same as the Postscript. No added characters or anything. Just the manufacturer resaved it or converted to OpenType with no real benefit to the users.

As as an aside-in my field (book publishing), we don't have a choice so far as the fonts being used. The designers and authors decide what fonts are being used. I do, though, always recommend using the OpenType font if there is one for it.

Thanks for the reply and apologies to the OP for taking this off topic.

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