Applying type styles -- Creative Suites

[Shevaun_McNaughton@adobeforums.com]

My company just purchased the Creative Suites package. Our company using a particular font "Engravers' Gothic BT" as a secondary font in our logo and on all of our corporate pieces. We have used this font as regular, bold and italic for many years in Photoshop, PageMaker, Publisher, Word, etc.

After converting one file, I noticed that the text, which is required to be bold is not, when I tried to change it, I was not given the option. I looked in help and found the following item, entitled "Applying type styles (InDesign vs. PageMaker)": InDesign handles type styles differently than PageMaker. In PageMaker, you can apply the same set of type styles (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and reverse) to any text, regardless of which font was applied. In InDesign, type styles are directly related to the fonts available on your system. For example, if Courier Roman, Courier Bold, and Courier Italic are installed and available, the type styles available for Courier text will be Roman, Bold, and Italic. This ensures that fonts in your document appear as intended by the font designer. However, some fonts do not have bold or italic styles. (See Selecting a font.)

I appreciate that you did this to ". . . ensure(s) that fonts in your document appear as intended by the font designer." If this were truly the case then you wouldn't have provided all the other options to distort and manipulate fonts.

I suspect that some font designers didn't include bold and italic because all the other pieces of software designed for desktop publishing automatically create the bold and italic versions.

Is there any way around this other than going backwards and running the earlier versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and PageMaker (not something I want to do because I really appreciate all the other great aspects of these programs)?

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

I suspect that some font designers didn't include bold and italic because
all the other pieces of software designed for desktop publishing automatically
create the bold and italic versions.




Trust me. As someone who worked for many years at a service provider, what InDesign does is the CORRECT thing to do. Artificially styling bold and italic has caused more bad film and wasted plates at service providers than any other problem. While it may look bold or italic on your screen, that's NOT the way it will print on a PostScript printer!

[Bob_Levine]

Faux font styles can be a big problem in a postscript workflow. The only
way around it in InDesign is to stroke the text with a very thin stroke.

Bob

[Ken_Grace@adobeforums.com]

"I appreciate that you did this to... "

Just as a point of information, you are not talking to Adobe here. We are
users like you.

k

[Shevaun_McNaughton@adobeforums.com]

Bob,

Thank you for your helpful suggestion.

Shevaun

[Bob_Levine]

Just so you know, I agree with the others. It's a bad idea. I still
suggest you use another font.

Bob