Whether you are using a Mac or a PC, you should use Adobe
PostScript fonts with the Adobe Type Manager program. If you
have Adobe fonts, you will be using fonts created for use with
PostScript printer drivers, so that you can depend on them.
This is not a problem in the Mac environment, but PC users are
offered handsome True Type fonts.
Remember, you will be using your PostScript printer, so your
software will be formatting the pages for the PostScript
printer. You should use only Adobe PostScript fonts to
maintain full compatibility between your PostScript documents
and the PostScript printer.
As long as you are using Adobe PostScript fonts, you will
avoid the difficulties that arise when using TrueType fonts in
a PostScript document. For example, TrueType fonts
periodically lead to page slippage in a PostScript document.
when printed by Docutech or any other process utilizing
PostScript files. That is, the text arrangement that you see
on the screen may not appear exactly the same in the final
printout. at the printing house. Worse, the text arrangement
that you saw yesterday on a particular page printout may today
include two lines of text from the next or previous page. This
kind of problem can drive you crazy, and none of us have the
time to recheck the text arrangement that was perfect
yesterday.
Note: In particular, please do not insist on using TrueType
fonts with Microsoft Word for printing with a PostScript
printer. You will spend as much time rechecking every page for
slippage as you spend editing the text.
It’s a shame, because there are many handsome,
inexpensive TrueType fonts available. You can have them on
your PC, of course, and they won’t hurt your computer.
You can use them for small one-time projects such as flyers
printed only on your laser printer. However, do not use
TrueType fonts in a book being sent to a PostScript printer.
Use Adobe PostScript fonts and Adobe Type Manager.
