Re: From NB NY [Descenders]

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Michael, the problem may be that you caused the program to convert from
PS to TT. This is not what Paul did with Verdana. He slightly
edited a highly-optimized, highly-hinted TT font without
displacing the hand-hints (which took hundreds of hours of highly paid
work to get there). You seem to have autto-converted from one format to
another (given that most Adobe fonts are PS even when the extension is
.otf -- otf being a wrapper which can encompass either PS or TT data),
and of course you will have poor screen resolution because TT must
be hand-hinted to look good on screen. If you want Courier, you might
look at HP's once-free and maybe still-free Courier Dark, which is
intended to address the problems in Adobe's and Microsoft's too-thin
Courier.


At 6/30/2008 02:59 PM, you wrote:

> Just to wrap this thread, I
> tried FontCreator yesterday on Adobe Standard Courier, and .otf font. The
> program saved the edited font as TrueType, and it did not display well;
> it looked like a thin washed out version of the original. (I'd upped the
> line gap to 600.) As Robert has pointed out, there are so many variables
> that unless you know what you are doing you can end up with watered down
> soup, which is what I got. What worked well for Paul editing Verdana, did
> not work on Courier.
>
> Meanwhile, NotaBene in draft view continues to display small anomalies on
> my XP Pro setup. The descenders in the first two or three lines on screen
> flicker when I type, and the decenders on one line roughly two-thirds of
> the way down the screen are cut off. The bottom line descenders are fine.
> No screen issues in their Page-Line (graphics) view, but it's a pain to
> compose in that view. Sent a report to NB NY, asking if there was a way
> to increase the line spacing/letting in draft view.
>
> Michael Norman