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What is this rubbish that Zapf Dingbats won’t work in NWP?
Posted: 2013-09-15 12:32:53
by 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
Re: What is this rubbish that Zapf Dingbats won’t work in NW
Posted: 2013-09-15 12:34:25
by greenmorpher
Ha! ITC Zapf Dingbats does work!!! Truetype. Old Dingbats is PS Type 1.
Cheers, geoff
Re: What is this rubbish that Zapf Dingbats won’t work in NW
Posted: 2013-09-19 08:32:07
by 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.
Re: What is this rubbish that Zapf Dingbats won’t work in NW
Posted: 2013-09-22 21:41:42
by 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
Re: What is this rubbish that Zapf Dingbats won’t work in NW
Posted: 2013-09-23 07:11:34
by 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