Chapter 6 and 7

This blog entry will summarize what knowledge I garnered from chapters 6 and 7 of Claudia McCue's Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications. For starters, chapter 6 elaborates more on the different types of fonts, types, and issues that can occur with fonts when paralleled with other fonts. The three major types of fonts are Open Type, True Type, and PostScript. Open Type is a single-file,cross-platform font that lacks a separate and trackable screen/printer font. Open Type is also very compatible with RIPs. PostScript is a bitmap composed of two files. It is considered a "screen font" type and has a printer component composed of pixels. As such, this component poses problems for the overall resolution of the file, so keeping the printer font will allow for you to maintain the font you want. True Type is a single file font with printer and screen components combined. This poses as a problem to press operators as RIPs can't decipher between the two.  The next bases to cover are over glyphs and font families. Glyphs are usually noted to be a type of symbol such as a letter or  an ampersand (&). Glyphs allow for swashes, fractions, and other such add-ons to possess the same font as your type. Font Families themselves are a designed typeface that can specify text. Dfont is a lot like True Type for Macs is stored in the data fork instead of the resource fork.

Chapter 7 breaks down the basics of file titling and licensing, as well as extensions, Multiple Master Fonts and formats that can cross platforms. It purports that, to name a file, one would do best to use an underscore between each word so as to decrease problems in the file search. Words with hyphens,  numerals, and spaces can also work. Now this works for the majority of the file, but at the end of the file, there has to be some type of extension. Types of extensions include: .pdf, .rtf, and .tif. The period is necessary as it keeps the file name divided from the extension. Without the afforementioned extension, the file cannot be opened. Simple as that. Finally, I'll close this entry talking about cross-platforms and licensing. Licensing in terms of fonts are very important as it keeps any specialized or personalized font created by the user as a legally bound font. Cross platform fonts are the types of fonts that can be utilized from software to software such as TIFFs, PDFs, and JPEGs. So long as the extension is used, these types of files along with PSDs, AIs and PSDs can be utilized across different platforms.