TrueType Fonts survey

[Tech]

Honestly, how many of you would absolutely reject client files with TT fonts due to "it doesn't RIP correctly"? or worry about font licensing issues like fonts you don't own and therefore you can't print etc etc.?

[Vee]

Never. Not me at least, I can't speak for everyone.

[jbbbarr]

Never, I usually convert to outlines if I have any issues.

[RickS]

It seems our True Type issues went away years ago. Don't even think about it any more.

[Paul Sherfield]

Clients of mine do not by default reject TT fonts, but there are still some very bad TT fonts around created using poor software which give TT fonts a bad name in the first place.

[doubting_thomas]

Never have, might never in the future. We turn almost no work away. I'd love to have that luxury. What's it like?

[Tech]

Just as I expected, I can't recall the last time any vendor kick files back "due to TT font usage" or font licensing issues. I'm founding myself in a brand new workflow where someone insist absolutely no TT fonts allow! It'll be both a blessing and a curse, especially with old legacy files that usually include some sort of TT fonts. Moving forward I can agree on no TT fonts usage on new files, but I hope this person doesn't mean we'll waste precious time at changing old legacy files as well.

[toronar]

So far we only turned down some jobs that used fonts that had a restrictive license which would not allow embedding and not allow to be used for printing.

We got the original Quark files with the font and a license.pdf for the font which clearly stated that you cannot give the font to other people, including prepress or printing services. As we had no right to use this font in any way and the customer did not want to outline the text himself we turned the job down.

Other than that we never had any problem with truetype or any other fonts.
There were quite a lot bad designed fonts that would look like ... shit when ripped with 2540 dpi, but no actual problems.

[Tech]

For TT fonts that doesn't allow embedding we too just outline it. Common usage fonts from internet each have their own corny restrictions but most never states that they won't allow commercial printing. Not that I recommend any designers to use those fonts or legacy fonts in the first place....if they must then we'll do what we can to make it work.

[Lukas Engqvist]

As stated before the quality of the font is usually not because of true type, but there are quirky fonts. Find also that some common fonts Arial, Helvetica Neue, Times New Roman, have subtle differences that can cause reflowing or re-leading in some instances, so in as far as possible use customer fonts.

If your rip needs postscript, you can save a PDF as Postscript, check the box convert truetype to postscript, and re-distill.