For those of you who are print-design oriented, or even just computer savvy, this rant may strike a chord. For those of you who aren’t, or don’t use OSX, trust me when I say there is nothing more frustrating than trying to print a PDF from Quark 5. We are finishing up our wedding invitation (that’s the sound of one big checkmark off the list) and trying any and all methods for getting a Mac Quark file to Jen’s work PC with fonts, formatting, and sanity intact so that we may take advantage of some extra space on a print job leaving next week. As you may have guessed, we are only marginally successful at this late hour (10:13PM.) Acrobat Distiller 5 is as helpful as an IRS audit, and every workaround I can think of is crashing and burning. Unfortunately, I don’t have an OSX version of Quark 6 (and from what I hear, I don’t think I want one), nor does Jen have one decent font on her work PC’s. I’ve devised a stopgap measure which may or may not work involving a little-known application called FontMonger; you feed Mac TrueType fonts in and out come PC versions—with some caveats. Sometimes the points get messed up; sometimes the hints get garbled, and sometimes whole letters get dropped out. I’m trying to devise a way to get this done without having to buy a PC version of Adobe Bembo, because we really need that $100 for other stuff. Like a punchbowl full of Xanax.

Date posted: February 15, 2004 | Filed under art/design | Leave a Comment »

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