What is this rubbish that Zapf Dingbats won’t work in NWP?

[greenmorpher]

X.6.8, NWP 2.0.4.

I only just noticed because someone raised it on the PhotoLine forum because it doesn’t work in PhotoLine either.

It works in old Canvas X and in up-to-the-minute Sandvox.

Another old Dingbats font works in everything.

What’s going on?

Best regards
Geoff

Geoffrey Heard
General Manager
Bushtrack Enterprises Ltd
http://www.bushtrackpng.com

[greenmorpher]

Ha! ITC Zapf Dingbats does work!!! Truetype. Old Dingbats is PS Type 1.

Cheers, geoff

[Groucho]

HI, Geoff.

Old type 1 fonts can be tricky on recent software. I experienced this a few years ago with a book. The kerning got dramatically changed in all occurrences of diacritics, like é, ñ and ô. For example, José appeared as if it was Jos é. I spotted the "glitch" only when the book was on print. It did not show on screen, not even on a pdf.

Henry.

[greenmorpher]

Nasty Henry. And I was wrong, ITC Zapf Dinbgbats only partly works. You cannot select a single character and just change it to dingbats.

Cheers, geoff

[Elbrecht]

Hi -

Dingbats are as awesome as Symbols on OSX - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1518
"Mac OS X: How to type Unicode characters, including Symbol or Zapf Dingbat fonts"
But ALL kinds of fonts should work when entered the RIGHT way - Unicode or NOT…

HE