Re: Timesnewromanpsmt Bold
Savage Doherty
I uninstalled Times New Roman PSMT, restarted the computer, and Affinity Publisher now shows Times New Roman regular as some entirely different font (in this case, a music font called Most). It displays bold, italic, and bold italic, but NOT regular.
I need the extended characters and so need the 'real' Times New Roman to do that, not PSMT, which is an incomplete font. Images showing the text in the document (bold showing correctly) and the drop-down font list. (Times New Roman regular shows up correctly in MS Word, OpenOffice, etc., and in the Windows font list.)
I followed the instructions for deleting the cache, restarting, etc. The cache folder was empty and I rebooted. Affinity still does not find Times New Roman regular -- only bold, italic, and bold italic. Those fonts do have the extended characters, by the way.
To be clear, it's not the extended characters per se that are the problem; they're part of Times New Roman v7.00, which is installed on this Windows 10 machine. The characters were not available in Times New Roman PSMT, so they didn't show up in Publisher, which only allowed TNR/PSMT for regular text. Once I'd uninstalled TNR/PSMT, Publisher subsituted a different font. As you can see in my OP, it doesn't see TNR at all now. The entire document has a random font replacing TNR Regular (but not TNR bold, italic, or bold italic). This is the case for any new document--there's no TNR Regular available to Publisher.
Rather than creating a companion boldface with letterforms similar to the roman style, Times New Roman's bold has a different character, with a more condensed and more upright effect caused by making the horizontal parts of curves consistently the thinnest lines of each letter, and making the top serifs of letters like 'd' purely horizontal.[30] This effect is not found in sixteenth-century typefaces (which, in any case, did not have bold versions); it is most associated with the Didone, or "modern" type of the early nineteenth century (and with the more recent 'Ionic' styles of type influenced by it that were offered by Linotype, discussed below).[20][31][32][33][34] Some commentators have found Times' bold unsatisfactory and too condensed, such as Walter Tracy.[29]
The PDF format defines 14 standard fonts that can be used in PDF documents. PDFKit supports each of them out of the box.Besides Symbol and Zapf Dingbats this includes 4 styles (regular, bold, italic/oblique, bold+italic) of Helvetica,Courier, and Times. To switch between standard fonts, call the font method with the corresponding Label:
In 1931, The Times of London commissioned a new text type design from Stanley Morison and the Monotype Corporation, after Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically behind the times. The new design was supervised by Stanley Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times. Morison used an older typeface, Plantin, as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space (always important concerns for newspapers). As the old type used by the newspaper had been called Times Old Roman," Morison's revision became "Times New Roman." The Times of London debuted the new typeface in October 1932, and after one year the design was released for commercial sale. The Linotype version, called simply "Times," was optimized for line-casting technology, though the differences in the basic design are subtle. The typeface was very successful for the Times of London, which used a higher grade of newsprint than most newspapers. The better, whiter paper enhanced the new typeface's high degree of contrast and sharp serifs, and created a sparkling, modern look. In 1972, Walter Tracy designed Times Europa for The Times of London. This was a sturdier version, and it was needed to hold up to the newest demands of newspaper printing: faster presses and cheaper paper. In the United States, the Times font family has enjoyed popularity as a magazine and book type since the 1940s. Times continues to be very popular around the world because of its versatility and readability. And because it is a standard font on most computers and digital printers, it has become universally familiar as the office workhorse. Times?, Times? Europa, and Times New Roman? are sure bets for proposals, annual reports, office correspondence, magazines, and newspapers.
Linotype offers many versions of this font:
Times? is the universal version of Times, used formerly as the matrices for the Linotype hot metal line-casting machines. The basic four weights of roman, italic, bold and bold italic are standard fonts on most printers. There are also small caps, Old style Figures, phonetic characters, and Central European characters.
Times? Ten is the version specially designed for smaller text (12 point and below); its characters are wider and the hairlines are a little stronger. Times Ten has many weights for Latin typography, as well as several weights for Central European, Cyrillic, and Greek typesetting.
Times? Eighteen is the headline version, ideal for point sizes of 18 and larger. The characters are subtly condensed and the hairlines are finer."
When I export a documents from Pages into doc format, in which an office compatible font was used and bolds or italics are in the text, the font is changed from, for example, "Arial" to "Arial Bold" in all the bolds selected in the text, causing compatibility issues when the document is oppened in MS Office or windows. If I use the helvetica font, the document open correctly in MS Word, with all the bolds correctly identified (Helvetica font + bold, as opposed to "Helvetica Bold" font)
I'm sure you are probably right, but it doesn't seem to be the case in this matter: even when I use fonts provided by MS (like cambria), which have their own versions for bold and italic (so I suppose they are not faux stylings), the exported document still loses the reference to the styling.
You are right about one thing, and that is that the resulting document, when opened in windows and mac, look very diferent: on the mac, even in office, the document looks the same, so I suppose the system is still, somehow, finding the bold and italic font version; in windows, the system cannot find a corresponding font and the text loses all format, with the format reverting to a system default.
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