FrameMaker: mysterious font substitution in PDF

[Robert Lauriston]

Helvetica Standard Full Family is $360 for five computers. Single
fonts are $29. adobe.com has PDFs showing which glyphs each font
includes.

http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=1767

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
> Mike Wickham said:
>
> … Helvetica from your computer-- or replace it with the OpenType version.
>
> I am curious as to how to get hold of [newer] OTF versions of Helvetica (and
> some other old Adobe fonts that I use – like Caslon Expert) without having
> to pay an arm and a leg for it. As I recall, these fonts (with all variants)
> are darn expensive.
>
>
>
> My current Helvetica font files are ancient Type 1 ones – I received the
> standard “35 PostScript” Adobe fonts as part of two Adobe PostScript
> Cartridge purchases I made for my equally ancient and long-dead HP LaserJet
> II laser printer and other font purchases way back when. For example, The
> date on these Helvetica files are from around 1990 and 1994, etc.
>
>
>
> So, they don’t have all glyphs for today’s needs for some people. Luckily,
> this has not hurt me too much, primarily because I have not had a need for
> Unicode (yet) and have a substitution in another font for the Euro glyph,
> but …
>
>
>
> I don’t know if Helvetica has changed since that time, but I assume –
> perhaps incorrectly – that new glyphs have been added and/or any
> imperfections have been fixed, etc. (?) Because I do see newer releases of
> some Adobe other fonts included in their software … with different files
> sizes, internal font versions, etc. Some recent Acrobat Pro versions in
> particular.
>
>
>
> Anyway, some time back, I commented/asked here about Adobe providing font
> upgrades (with reasonable prices), and somebody from Adobe mentioned that
> they don’t do that. Unfortunate! L
>
>
>
> I think that it is good for Adobe to (a) consider doing font upgrades for
> people who have these fonts – particular the ancient Type 1 files and/or (b)
> for the FrameMaker or Acrobat team to consider adding in the “traditional”
> 35 fonts (in updated OTF form, of course!) from the Apple LaserWriter days,
> as part of a standard font set for FrameMaker/Acrobat.
>
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> Z
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