Re: FW: Semi-OT: mac font check, please

Times new roman on a Mac is from Adobe not part of the standard fonts in
the OS.  Times New Roman also come with any Microhack program that use
fonts like power point or word.

She narrowed the kerning just a hair and adjusted a couple of kerning pairs.

>Adjusting the kerning changes the white space between letters; it should
>not adjust the width of each letter.
>
>I meant that each letter in her sample is narrower than the default
>letters in my font file.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
>> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] On Behalf Of michael mckee
>> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:25 PM
>> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
>> Subject: Re: Semi-OT: mac font check, please
>>
>>
>> When you adjust the kerning you do adjust the letter spacing
>> and hence
>> the width.
>>
>> In the old days, Times was the Apple standard font but with IE as the
>> default browser on Macs, Times New Roman comes installed.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Ann Ezzell wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Could someone with a Mac please look at this GIF:
>> >
>> > http://208.254.3.84/font_check.gif
>> >
>> > and let me know if the typeface used for Equine Energies is
>> a standard
>> > width Times New Roman?
>> >
>> > The woman who made this (using Quark Express) insists that she used
>> > "Times New Roman" and didn't change the width at all - just
>> adjusted the
>> > kerning.
>> >
>> > I know that Mac & PC typefaces aren't exact duplicates, but
>> I have to
>> > shrink the letters horizontally quite a bit to get them to match in
>> > Photoshop on my PC.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > (Also - isn't the standard serif typeface for Macs called
>> "Times", not
>> > "Times New Roman"?)
>> >
>>
>>

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Sincerely

Kid Stevens

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