Where are my fonts saved at?

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patricia_farr
Dec 30, 2003
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I am working on getting a file of my ad to a magazine publication. I am stumbling alot here. I have used some typestyles that they don’t have. I am sending the file in layers, so they will need the typestyles I am using, right? I am looking everywhere in my computer and I can not find them. could someone help please? thank you.
patricia
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Colin_Walls
Dec 30, 2003
Your fonts "belong" to Windows and they are all stored somewhere under the Windows folder. You could simply take the relevant .TTF files and pass them on. Your client could then install them. This is probably illegal, as fonts are licenced, but you need to work that out.
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graffiti
Dec 30, 2003
If they’re not going to do any modifications to your file (hopefully not), just rasterize the fonts.

Layer>Rasterize>Type

If you don’t absolutely need to send a layered file, flatten and save a copy. I can’t imagine why they would need a layered file.
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LenHewitt
Dec 31, 2003
Patricia,

They could be in Windows\Fonts or in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts.

However, it IS illegal to transfer fonts to the print shop if they do not have licenses for the fonts.

Why not save as PDF and embed the fonts? That is perfectly legal.
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Brian
Dec 31, 2003
LenHewitt wrote:

However, it IS illegal to transfer fonts to the print shop if they do not have licenses for the fonts.

Illegal perhaps, but common practice. I can’t think of one service bureau that a.) doesn’t ask for the client’s fonts, and b.) owns or purchases a license for every font a client may want to use – they simply activate the client’s font(s), run the job, and then remove the client fonts when they’re finished.

Which is the common-sense approach regardless of the licensing – why should the printshop be saddled with the financial burden of purchasing licenses to fonts they did not decide to use? Sure, they could pass the costs back to the customer, but then the customer is paying twice for the fonts when once should suffice.

Every font I’ve ever created (which is only two, neither of which ever became popular in the least, sad to say) have licenses that specifically allow for transfer to a service bureau *for output purposes only*. Anything else is pure greediness on the part of the font vendor IMO.

Brian
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LenHewitt
Dec 31, 2003
Brian,

We all know it is common practice, but that doesn’t make it right any more than it makes speeding right.

why should the printshop be saddled with the financial burden of
purchasing
licenses to fonts they did not decide to use?<<

Because that is part and parcel of the costs of that particular business. It’s an overhead just like rent, rates, heating/lighting and taxes.
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Brian
Dec 31, 2003
Because that is part and parcel of the costs of that particular business. It’s an overhead just like rent, rates, heating/lighting and taxes.

I know that it *is* (although I know not a single shop that actually pays for licenses to use client fonts), but that doesn’t mean is *should be*. That’s the point I was trying to make, the absurdity of these licenses that make these requirements.
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LenHewitt
Jan 1, 2004
Brian,

That’s the point I was trying to make, the absurdity of these
licenses that make these requirements.<<

But IF the client supplies PDF or .PS files the font data can be embedded without needing to violate any license, so there really is no excuse for ‘shady practises’
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Dan_Crescent
Jan 1, 2004
Not all fonts embed in PDF’s, due to licensing restrictions.
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CalmanR
Jan 2, 2004
On the money, Brian
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Brian
Jan 5, 2004
But IF the client supplies PDF or .PS files the font data can be embedded without needing to violate any license, so there really is no excuse for ‘shady practises’

What if the designer needs to provide the native file for any reason at all (and yes, there are plenty of ligitimate reasons to send a native file to a service bureau)?
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Brian
Jan 5, 2004
Dan_Crescent wrote:
Not all fonts embed in PDF’s, due to licensing restrictions.

Which in itself is also ridiculous – why would a font vendor not allow their fonts to be embedded, thereby allowing their customer (the designer) to do as Len suggests and send a PDF rather than the native files and the fonts?

The whole font-license issue is just so obtuse…
8^)

Brian
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Brian
Jan 5, 2004
CalmanR wrote:
On the money, Brian

Thanks!
8^)
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Robert_Levine
Jan 5, 2004
What if the designer needs to provide the native file for any reason at all (and yes, there are plenty of ligitimate reasons to send a native file to a service bureau)?

Then legally, the SB must have a license for the fonts. The only legal reason for supplying them is to make sure that you both have the same version.

bob
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joevan
Jan 6, 2004
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:05:11 -0800, Brian
wrote:

But IF the client supplies PDF or .PS files the font data can be embedded without needing to violate any license, so there really is no excuse for ‘shady practises’

What if the designer needs to provide the native file for any reason at all (and yes, there are plenty of ligitimate reasons to send a native file to a service bureau)?
I have always heard that you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition. So instead of where are my fonts saved at, it could be where are my fonts saved at, asshole. ????
Or maybe between the a and the t.
joevan

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