Neo Sans
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- _salisae_0
you still get stikes for doing this?
- Typographica0
This incomplete character set is news to me. This is a professional font family so all the basics should be there. From whom did you buy it, if I may ask? Ours works fine here.
- Outlook0
Thanks for the advice Typographica, will do.
Cheers.
- rasko40
the special characters dont work in quark, but they do in Illustrator :(
- rasko40
I'm on a mac, I wanted to use font on a project and thanks to the shittiness of whoever put it together (nice design tho) or the shittiness of something I had to change all plans after creating stylesheets etc only to later discover the missing/faulty characters, so I switched it all out for Rekyavik.
Any explanation Typografica? You did after all vote this one of your fave fonts of last year or something..
- rasko40
on a mac btw Nairn
- rasko40
I'm freelancing at an agency and its on the system so I dont know it's origins, maybe it's some kind of demo set or something? The characters are there on NeoTech regular but not the others.
It made me weep it did. I always enjoy finding nice fonts to use and even more so getting others to pay for them. Chevin being my most recent accquisition, thanks client :)
- MX_OnD0
it is missing some characters rasko, funny ones to be missing though...
no exlamation or question marks,
yet dollar, pound, percent, ampersand are all there, umlauts are there but no circumflex.
- rasko40
sorry dad, I'll slap their wrists.
- MX_OnD0
at the risk of sounding petulant Typographica, do you honestly believe that "an illegitimate copy" could have select characters missing??
Please do correct me if it is possible that this is the case.
I know from damn near 6 years of offering technical support for Macromedia that the only difference to "cracked versions " of the "legitimate versions", I deliberately include "versions" in quotes, is that with one you are licensed - with the other you are not. ie. one is like the mp3 bought at iTunes the other downloaded from a p2p, digitally identical all the same though.
or is my logic flawed?
either way a beautiful font.
- rasko40
not so eager to answer a question about a flakey font as you are to point someone to a buy our fonts link eh Typo?
;)
- Typographica0
MX - That's a valid question. Fonts are very different from other software in that they are not activated by serials or kraks. They are either originals or knockoffs/copies/recreations.
Fonts can be recreated by pirates in many ways. They can be scanned from specimen books and made into new font files or they can be extracted from documents in which they are embedded - most commonly PDFs.
It's very possible that the Neo Sans in question was extracted from a PDF which did not contain all the font's characters. That would explain the missing glyphs.
- Typographica0
Contact FontShop, Outlook. They can spit out some samples for you. A little more kosher than passing the font itself.
- MX_OnD0
thanks Typographica.
a further daft question along the same lines...
what is to stop the unscrupulous designer (or even publishing house - Camden) simply "getting" a copy of a legitimately licensed font?
I know that fonts are valuable, but it seems somewhat extreme to go scanning them.. very interesting though!!
- mase0
Spank him Big T!
;)
- rasko40
I find that highly unlikely someone would go to the effort of doing that for both neosans and neotech and for all their defferent weights plus italics.
I think its a legitimately flakey postscript. Remember - two unrelated people are having the same problem.
- rasko40
does neosans/tech have the full character set?
- rasko40
for instance " and "
- Typographica0
MX - You are very right. It's easy to copy. Most common form of font piracy. Happens all the time. Even on this here damn forum. But that requires that the font be purchased first. Surprisingly some fonts have very few sales, which means very little piracy. Neo Sans, though, is not one of those.
rasko - True dat. I don't want to be accusatory, but it's just as likely that two parties have the same pirated copy. If somebody has licensed Neo from FontShop and is experiencing the prob I'll happily get our tech support folks on the job.
But like I said, I don't see the problem in the Neo font files available at FontShop.com.
- MX_OnD0
this kind of thread I have missed of late.
cheers.