I am using Quark Xpress 4.1 on a blue & white g3, Mac OS 9.2. The print shop told me not to use the font character buttons in the properties bar, such as bold and italic. That is fine, but Quark is not showing me all of the font styles in the suitcase within a family. ie Arial bold or italic, just the regular "Arial" Does Quark only show you all of the varieties if it is a type one font? Hope this makes sense? Is there something else I need to do to make them all show?
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Font display in fontlist?
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This is always a controversial issue. If you use PostScript fonts, then yes, they should appear in the font menu, including any variation you might have installed. TrueType, on the other hand, maybe not.
When you specify, say, 'Gill Sans Bold' in the font menu, there can be no argument about what that is. If your file is opened on a Mac without that font, a warning is issued.
If you specify 'Gill Sans' and use the character buttons to make it bold, then things become a little confused. Quark will substitute it for 'Gill Sans Bold' if it's available, and if not, it will try to render a bold version of the font. Usually, it doesn't look that good, and if the standard version is all that's available on another computer, it may display differently without giving a warning.
Now back to TrueType fonts. There may be a bold version and the only way to access may be to use those charactor buttons. Again, if your printer's computer doesn't have the full set, it may try to create it's own version with unpredictable results.
To be safe, you should use Type 1 wherever possible, and avoid those buttons. Although TrueType fonts aren't as bad as some purists would make out, and will usually print ok, this is one situation that may cause problems.
When you specify, say, 'Gill Sans Bold' in the font menu, there can be no argument about what that is. If your file is opened on a Mac without that font, a warning is issued.
If you specify 'Gill Sans' and use the character buttons to make it bold, then things become a little confused. Quark will substitute it for 'Gill Sans Bold' if it's available, and if not, it will try to render a bold version of the font. Usually, it doesn't look that good, and if the standard version is all that's available on another computer, it may display differently without giving a warning.
Now back to TrueType fonts. There may be a bold version and the only way to access may be to use those charactor buttons. Again, if your printer's computer doesn't have the full set, it may try to create it's own version with unpredictable results.
To be safe, you should use Type 1 wherever possible, and avoid those buttons. Although TrueType fonts aren't as bad as some purists would make out, and will usually print ok, this is one situation that may cause problems.
sharkboots
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I am a PC user of Quark 4.1 and have encountered many Type1 font families that have required me to use the 'italic' and 'bold' buttons to access certain weights and styles. My print shop is unable to process files created in this way, and the only way I have been able to get around the problem is to use the font utility 'Crossfont' (available from to 're-encode' the type1 font metric files. All the font weights/styles can then be accessed from Quark's drop-down font list. As far as I know, Crossfont is a windows only program, but you should be able to find something similar for Mac.
sharkboots
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Sorry, the url in that last post should have been
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