[thelist] font inconsistencies in different image apps
Bob Meetin
ontheroad at frii.com
Mon Sep 25 18:23:33 CDT 2006
This is not a hot problem know, but more of a standards/expectations
question.
I had to download a couple fonts, Harrington and Brush Script, for a
site. When I use them in either Photoshop or GIMP, they are similar.
This is fine. Neither have a bold weight option. Harrington was
naturally frail, and Brush Script slightly heavy.
The client I was doing the job for was getting a really different look
with the fonts, but using different apps. He might have been playing
with microsoft paint and i believe corel paint shop pro. The images he
sent me with Harrington were on the bold side and brush script on the
slim side.
Just to see for myself, I downloaded the trial version of PSP - and it
certainly has different options for font weight. (stroke width).
Q1: Which is the accepted (industry standard) application to use for text?
Q2: How do you handle a problem like this? Do you owe it to the client
to be able to deliver a specification even if he/she is using a tool
that might not be using a generally accepted tool? Like I say, with the
trial version of PSP I am over the hump.
Q3: Is there something (not obvious) in either GIMP or PhotoShop that my
bleary eyes might have repeatedly missed?
-Bob
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