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I was setting up my new computer, and trying to adjust font-sizes and other settings in BBEdit. BBEdit relies on the font-palette for all the font settings, but didn’t seem to notice any changes I
Continue readingA collection of sites to try when you are looking for free fonts:
Nine beautiful designer fonts by Jos Buivenga.
This site has both free and paid fonts. The free fonts tend toward the oddball, not the type of font you can use daily, but interesting. The paid fonts are very reasonably priced at $4.99, and you can download their top 500 for $2.77.
A client sent me a powerpoint with revisions from last year’s version. Over the year, they must have found the “Animation Schemes” button because the presentation was filled with animated text. When I exported the
Continue readingA client gave me a powerpoint presentation recently that contained a lot of symbols: arrows, greater-than-or-equal-to signs, and the like. They showed up fine in the powerpoint, but once incorporated into an MS Producer presentation, and published, they disappeared, or changed into letters.
It turns out the reason for this is that fonts are embedded into powerpoint presentations, but Producer is creating HTML pages, which of course are dependent on the end viewer’s computer for fonts, and on browser options for default font preferences.
When inserting symbols in powerpoint, (on a PC) it is not immediately obvious that you are switching fonts. By default, when you select “Insert Symbol” the font that comes up highlighted in the dialog is “Symbol” which does not always show up in a finished Producer presentation. Select another font, like Arial or Times New Roman and choose one of their symbols – they have almost as many.
The alternative would be to position graphics of the symbols in place of temperamental text characters. However, this isn’t such a great solution, since you can’t place inline graphics inside text boxes, so the symbols won’t stay in postion, especially if the font size varies a bit depending on the user’s computer.
Continue readingOn the Mac, when Microsoft Word won’t print a document, but other applications will, check the fonts. I’ve found that if a file uses fonts that are not on the computer, it doesn’t substitute like
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