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• • November 23, 2009 at 11:22 am #53913
    Eelco

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    I've got this e-mail back from the printer who said that their can be a problem with printing using a truetype font in an ad. Why is this? Is this printer old-fashioned or do I miss something here?

  • November 23, 2009 at 1:36 pm #53918
    David Blatner

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    Your printer is probably just being “old fashioned.” That's a polite way of saying, he or she hasn't updated their brain since the 20th century. TrueType fonts are almost always fine, unless their RIP is from the mid 90s or something (in which case, you probably want a different printer anyway).

    Of course, another option is to flatten the file while outlining the type as written about in this post.

  • November 24, 2009 at 12:33 pm #53937
    Eelco

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    Thanks a bunch for that link.

  • November 24, 2009 at 2:58 pm #53940
    Bob Levine

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    Are they requesting the file on a Syquest disk? :)

  • November 26, 2009 at 12:03 am #53994
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    I remember years ago when true type was frowned upon, and a lot of that was about mixing and matching. And yup–it was in the mid-90s.

    Bob–I remember those Syquest disks, and I hated those things. But they held more than a ZIP. But at the time, that was the technology. I also remember when our main work server was only a 4 gig hard drive and had 32 megs of ram. And we used virtual memory as well.

    Didn't Bill Gates famously say that no one would ever need more than 4 megs of ram?

  • November 27, 2009 at 3:28 am #54029
    Bob Levine

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    Actually, the original quote somewhere around 640 k, but he's denied ever saying it.

  • November 30, 2009 at 12:49 pm #54053
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    @ Bob – Ka klunk – whhhhhhhhiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrr – ksh shsh ksh hshsh ks h kk

    holding breath hoping it will read!!

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