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At lunch overheard a discussion between The other system admin. my boss Operations Manager, and two of the graphic artists. One that is using a Mac and the other the VP of IT recently forced getting a PC. First they don't know how to get the same fonts for the PC as they have been using in printed media for years on the Mac. Second the fonts they have gotten the PC versions of are not the same size, ie. 12pt in not 12pt on the PC. Spacing and alignment is all messed up in documents. They are using the same Adobe programs on both the mac and pc and distribute and print as PDF,

All of the optons my boss and the other system admin were insanely expensive. Buy new fonts that are the same on mac and pc to use (they would have to update ALL the company's printed meda. Or edit the font to work correctly on the pc. Since they distribute PDFs or Youtube video, it only matters when creating or editing.

Personally think this is the kind of problems you have when you do not have an Art Director to manage this sort of thing and then force the graphic arts people to try to use both mac and pc.

When I was department manager of drafting and graphic arts I made sure we used fonts that were the same on mac and pc. They have since changed that.

Since they were talking about editing or creating fonts, told them that I made a font when I was in charge of graphic arts. It was a copy of Leroy Lettering, and I called it Leroy. My boss and the other admin commented that it probably wasn't used. One of the graphic artist said oh yes it was! We use for all our technical illustractions. AND it is one of the few fonts that is the same size, spacing, everything on the Mac, PC, and Postscript printing. They tried using others but leroy just worked better.. I said it is amazing when you design a font and take the time to make all the correct screen and printing font types.

From their discussion we don't have the rights to use most of the fonts they are now using.
We did when I was in charge of that stuff.
Sure glad I am not involved with graphic arts in this company any more.
Quit worrying about it when I complained that they weren't always using the © and ™ on things that were copyrighted or trademarked, and was told it didn't matter.