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tlvp

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Jan 29, 2012, 8:53:54 PM1/29/12
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We (that is, TLVP) currently use the font American Typewriter Medium BT
(AmerType Med BT, AMRTYPEN.TTF) as a TTY-style font in our print
publications, but it's quite annoying to use because PDFs incorporating it
lose editability (because the font allows only Print & Preview embedding).

Can anyone suggest an equally easily accessible and plausibly similar font
that allows Installable embedding?

TIA; and cheers, -- tlvp
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Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

Character

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Jan 29, 2012, 9:25:17 PM1/29/12
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On 1/29/2012 5:53 PM, tlvp wrote:
> We (that is, TLVP) currently use the font American Typewriter Medium BT
> (AmerType Med BT, AMRTYPEN.TTF) as a TTY-style font in our print
> publications, but it's quite annoying to use because PDFs incorporating it
> lose editability (because the font allows only Print& Preview embedding).
>
> Can anyone suggest an equally easily accessible and plausibly similar font
> that allows Installable embedding?
>
> TIA; and cheers, -- tlvp



There are many other teletype and telegraph style fonts available.

Google for Telegram Font and you'll find a nice one at the HPLHS site.

Google for Teletype Font and you'll find many, mostly free.

Google for Typewriter Font and you'll be inundated with options.

If you're in love with the American Typewriter font (note that the FILE
name is irrelevant), there is a utility, embed.exe, that can change the
embedability characteristics of any ttf or otf font. Be aware that using
it MAY violate the font's licensing. Google will find it for you easily
if you wish to use it.

- Character

Thane

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Jan 30, 2012, 12:45:20 AM1/30/12
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Just to add a small note to Character's excellent reply--

I don't know what software you are using to create your PDFs, but you will
need to turn off subsetting of fonts in your PDF options (unless you are
certain those who edit your PDF will never need a glyph other than those you
have used in creating the original PDF).

Or, if you choose to use an alternate free font, might'nt it be easier to
package a copy of the font with your file so that those downstream of you
can simply install your standard font?

Thane


tlvp

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Jan 30, 2012, 12:09:06 PM1/30/12
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Many attractive and helpful suggestions there, Char'r -- thank you, thank
you, thank you! And cheers ... and Happy New Year (not too late, is it?),

tlvp

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Jan 30, 2012, 12:21:19 PM1/30/12
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:45:20 -0500, Thane wrote:

> Just to add a small note to Character's excellent reply--
>
> I don't know what software you are using to create your PDFs, but you will

We start compositing in MS Word, print to file using a PS printer
definition, distill the resulting PS file using Acrobat Distiller, and
always embed without subsetting.

> ... need to turn off subsetting of fonts in your PDF options (unless you are
> certain those who edit your PDF will never need a glyph other than those you
> have used in creating the original PDF).

Even having the font present is of no help when trying to adjust the PDF.

> Or, if you choose to use an alternate free font, might'nt it be easier to
> package a copy of the font with your file so that those downstream of you
> can simply install your standard font?

It's a font we use uniquely for the page behind the title page, and there
uniquely for spelling out email and web addresses. With it embedded in the
PDF, our print supplier has no trouble rendering it. It's just that we need
to go back to the Word document itself for even the most minimal editing
that, on a PDF document *not* containing AmerType Med BT, would be easy.

> Thane

Thanks for your concern and your interest. Cheers, -- tlvp

tlvp

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Jan 30, 2012, 2:37:45 PM1/30/12
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:25:17 -0800, Character wrote:

> ... there is a utility, embed.exe, that can ...

With MD5 value of c2bb50d4260720a5bf0109da8ecdd86f ?
or CRC32 value of 374764c9 ?

TIA; cheers, -- tlvp

Thane

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Jan 30, 2012, 3:22:13 PM1/30/12
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"tlvp" <mPiOsUcB...@att.net> wrote in message
news:1rzxdxpfh6f5o$.1r1odc8mq0uwx.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:25:17 -0800, Character wrote:
>
>> ... there is a utility, embed.exe, that can ...
>
> With MD5 value of c2bb50d4260720a5bf0109da8ecdd86f ?
> or CRC32 value of 374764c9 ?

My copy:
MD5: c2bb50d4260720a5bf0109da8ecdd86f
SHA-1: D604274A12EA72FFF2CBB69D7EB14E5EF051322B

It is so old & trivial that you probably needn't worry about it. As best I
recall, it was written because the default settings of some font creation
software restricted embedding unless the author knew to override that
setting, though there are some foundries that take an overly harsh approach
in this regard.


tlvp

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Jan 31, 2012, 7:51:02 PM1/31/12
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:22:13 -0500, Thane wrote:

> "tlvp" <mPiOsUcB...@att.net> wrote in message
>> With MD5 value of c2bb50d4260720a5bf0109da8ecdd86f ?
>
> My copy:
> MD5: c2bb50d4260720a5bf0109da8ecdd86f

Good, nothing broke in the download I kept. (Something did break in another
download, because it came in at only 3872 bytes. I just scrapped that :-).)

> It is so old & trivial that you probably needn't worry about it. As best I
> recall, it was written because the default settings of some font creation
> software restricted embedding unless the author knew to override that
> setting, though there are some foundries that take an overly harsh approach
> in this regard.

Thanks, Thane, for both the MD5 confirmation and the little backgrounder.

Cheers, -- tlvp
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