font load order - Adobe Typography

Very simply, you can't have two versions of the same font, with
identical internal font names, installed on the same system or in use
at the same time.

A font manager could activate your choice of sets of fonts, then
de-activate them when done. This is the equivalent of installing and
un-installing automatically.

I don't know how it works on a Mac (for operating system specific
questions, you'd be better off in an operating system forum), but
under Windows, the installed font takes precedence (it doesn't allow
multiple fonts with the same font name to be installed in the first
place); if not installed, the first one opened dynamically is the one
used - BUT it can get confused. Type 1 and Truetype fonts aren't
always handled the same way, just to confuse things further.

- Herb

Jay,

Herb has pretty much nailed it: you cannot have more than one version of SAME-NAMED fonts active at one time. Use a font manager to activate and control the ONE version of the font you need for the job. Deactivate the other. Duplicate activated fonts can wreak havoc with your system including application stalls, wrong fonts being used, and other problems.

BTW, you should use initial capitalization when posting in these forums. If you start a sentence with "i" instead of "I", you invoke italics and drop the "i", making your post harder to read and reducing the likelihood of it being read.

I've taken the liberty of fixing your post.

Neil

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:06:09 -0500, Jay Gamel wrote (in article
<59b6bbae.-1@webcrossing.la2eafNXanI>):

[snip]

> If there's an article about font loading order and/or recognition, I'd
> love to read it. I coudn't find one.

There's quite a good book regarding font management under Mac OS X, Leopard,
although most of what is in the book is applicable to some prior versions of
OS X.

The book, "Take Control of Fonts in Leopard" is written by Sharon Zardetto
and is available from TidBits <http://db.tidbits.com/> either as a .pdf or in
hard copy.

Font Book, the built-in font manager in OS X does permit duplicates of a
given font to be installed but automatically chooses one of them to be the
active version. Which is the active version can be determined by the user.

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James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@me.com