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What is your preferred font?
Curt:
I have seen (and not fully understood) in some programme that listed fonts in a file I created, that Arials 'Postscript name' is actually Helvetica - this was with the Arial font that came with XP (SP2) which is some sort of mongrel TrueType/OpenType
-tomos (May 30, 2010, 12:50 PM)
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I don't understand much of it either, but Wikipedia says this:
Similar typefaces
Comparison of Helvetica and Arial.
Generic versions of Helvetica have been made by various vendors, including Monotype Imaging (CG Triumvirate), ParaType (Pragmatica), Bitstream (Swiss 721), URW (Nimbus Sans).
Monotype's Arial, designed in 1982, while different from Helvetica in some few details, has identical character widths, and is indistinguishable by most non-specialists. The capital letters C, G, and R, as well as the lowercase letters a, e, r, and t, are useful for quickly distinguishing Arial and Helvetica.[13] Differences include:
* Helvetica's strokes are typically cut either horizontally or vertically. This is especially visible in the t, r, f, and C. Arial employs slanted stroke cuts.
* Helvetica's G has a well-defined spur; Arial does not.
* The tails of the R glyphs and the a glyphs are different.
"Helv", later known as "MS Sans Serif", is a sans-serif typeface that shares many key characteristics to Helvetica, including the horizontally and vertically aligned stroke terminators and more uniformed stroke widths within a glyph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica-Wikipedia, about Helvetica
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and more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_family_%28HTML%29
Curt:
MainType... cause I won it here on dc :D
I'm sure there's a thread here on the subject too ... Font managers reviews and opinions
-tomos (May 30, 2010, 03:07 PM)
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From time to time I have purchased some cheap font managers, only to find they later (or already) were abandoned. I guess one of my prime reasons for buying "cheap" have been the price of the recommended ones. $49 and $59 may be okay prices for MainType 3 and FontExpert 2010, if they were to keep for life. But they are not lifetime licenses, and the upgrade prices are $29 and $39 - making especially FontExpert much too expensive, I think. Changes are not that big, it seems, but major versions come quick (*ALMOST* as often as Ashampoo!)!
Did you stick with your gratis version 2, tomos, or have you paid the $29 fee?
tomos:
From time to time I have purchased some cheap font managers, only to find they later (or already) were abandoned. I guess one of my prime reasons for buying "cheap" have been the price of the recommended ones. $49 and $59 may be okay prices for MainType 3 and FontExpert 2010, if they were to keep for life. But they are not lifetime licenses, and the upgrade prices are $29 and $39 - making especially FontExpert much too expensive, I think. Changes are not that big, it seems, but major versions come quick (*ALMOST* as often as Ashampoo!)!
Did you stick with your gratis version 2, tomos, or have you paid the $29 fee?
-Curt (May 30, 2010, 05:08 PM)
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I moved my response to the Font Managers thread
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=14780.msg207300#msg207300
superboyac:
I uninstalled gdipp from my work computer. It made just about every program running on it give errors of some sort. I took it off and everything works well again. but I liked what it did with the fonts.
Curt:
I also removed it, but only because the difference before/after made me ehh... indifferent...
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