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

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Fri Jan 18 09:19:17 PST 2013


Adobe Pi's character map is different than the Type 1 Zapf that used
to be included with FrameMaker, so without the old font the solid,
hollow, and square bullets in the template I inherited showed up as
question marks in my online help and PDF.

Maybe Adobe Pi was designed by the same morons who did the UI makeover
in FrameMaker 9.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Dov Isaacs <isaacs at adobe.com> wrote:
>
> 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.



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