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unknown

I have a bit of a problem, one actually inflicted upon me by montype… here’s the situation:

I bought, downloaded, and installed their NEW SANS, only to find that the bold does not actually show up in the font menu in InDesign though it is in the downloaded folder. So I called Monotype who informed me that they made the font so that it linked to the bold file and all I had to do was hit “cmd+b” to bold it. Basically, a force bold, but with an actual postscript file which it draws from so in effect a double negative, resulting in a true bold drawing from an actual post script.

The files are postsccript. They are not OTF.

HELP!

Does someone else make NEWS SANS that has a complete working suitcase? I do have font lab here, though I am a bit of a novice at it, is there a way to seperate the postscript files called ATNewNumFou and ATNewNumFouBol so that when I add them, they are not linked and the Bold actually shows up?

-Andrew

unknown

Open the regular font in Font Lab. Under “Font Info,” change the name to New Sans, and select Normal as the weight/style. Then use the “Build Names” buttons (both of them), and generate a new font IN A DIFFERENT FOLDER.

Open the bold version, name it New Sans, select Bold as the weight/style, build the names, then generate a new font.

MOVE the old fonts out of your fonts folder and install the new ones…oughta work.

unknown

Awesome.

Thank you very much, works perfectly now.

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