Dealing with the legacy of the font wars to TrucType fonts, and many levy additional charges for the potentially arduous task o f converting j o b s f r o m TrueType to Type One. A few refuse to deal with TrueType fonts altogether, and advise their clients to disable TrueType fonts on their machines and purchase a stable of solid Type One fonts. Unfortunately. Type One fonts arc priced for professional and institutional use rather than home use, and not all small publishers can afford to lay clown hundreds o f dollars every time they want a new font. There are a few ways that you can use affordable or even free TrueType fonts at home, while making life easier f o r you and your printer. Familiarize yourself with standard Type One fonts. Try t o use good TrucType fonts that mimic common Type One fonts, rather than exotic ones, and know the names of the fonts you're imitating. Try to download an entire font family (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic, etc.), instead of just downloading the regular version o f the font and asking your word processing or page layout software to stylize i t for you. Software does its best to simulate italic or bold versions, but it rarely does it the same way the designer o f the Type One font or the original typographic artist had in mind. Incidentally, A d o b e , A p p l e a n d Microsoft have recently declared a truce In their battle: Adobe Type Manager now supports TrueType fonts, and Adobe Type Manager is included free of charge with the newest versions of the Windows and Mac operating systems. Unfortunately, the confusion created as a result o f the font wars is here to stay. •
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