Herb wrote:
A downside of that approach [The MS faux fonts vs. real bold & italic)
is that there's no way to tell if the font has the alternate styles
available
To which Dom replied:
Not so for MS apps, at least. They will usually say in the font
dialogue whether a font is "installed for screen display only" and, if
so, "the closest available font will be used for printing". This is
MS's way of saying a faux font will be used.
And Herb adds:
[Comments are based on MS Office 2003]
That message, very small at the bottom of a crowded dialog box, is
almost NEVER noticed and almost as rarely is it even seen! The dialog
box itself is seldom used by most people; of course for those people
who never use it, it probably doesn't matter anyway.
The messages presented there differ between Type 1 and Truetype fonts.
Both are misleading.
For an installed TrueType font-style, the message reads:
"This is a True Type font. This font will be used on both printer
and screen."
For an installed Type 1 or OTF font-style, it reads:
"This is a scalable printer font. The screen image may not match
printed output."
MS Office Apps describe Type 1 and .otf fonts as "Printer Fonts", and
associate a printer-looking icon in font selection drop-down lists.
Selected styles that are NOT available, either TT or T1, yield the
same message:
"This font style is imitated for display. The closest matching
style will be printed."
- Herb
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