Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

[Dov Isaacs]

Exactly what is the problem you have with Adobe Pi? Adobe Pi was designed to serve as a substitute for Zapf Dingbats originally for Acrobat and Reader and then for other Adobe applications. Although the design of each of the glyphs is not identical, Adobe Pi does do a fairly good job as a substitute and in some cases, the glyphs are much more modern looking than Zapf Dingbat's highly dated look.

If you really want ITC Zapf Dingbats, you really need to look no further than any printer you have that has Adobe PostScript. Each such printer should have a host software package that includes copies of all the printer resident fonts, including the Type 1 version of ITC Zapf Dingbats for use on computers using the particular printer. Problem solved!

            - Dov


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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:26 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!


I had a confusing problem with the three Zapf bullets my inherited

templates use for nested lists not rendering.



Eventually I figured out that the Type 1 font had never been installed

on my computer because the master font directory was missing the .pfb

file.



I didn't really want to install such an old font so I tried font

replacement of Zapfdingbat with ZapfDingbats BT, that didn't work

because the character set is not the same.



Eventually I decided to use Arial Black's Unicode characters 2022,

25E6, and 25AA instead.



Why Adobe mapped Zapf to Adobe Pi Std in the first place ...

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