Neo Sans
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- Outlook
Anyone have a copy of Neo Sans that they can e-mail me? need it for some comps. :S
Thanks
- _salisae_0
you still get stikes for doing this?
- Typographica0
Contact FontShop, Outlook. They can spit out some samples for you. A little more kosher than passing the font itself.
- mase0
Spank him Big T!
;)
- rasko40
does neosans/tech have the full character set?
- rasko40
for instance " and "
- Outlook0
Thanks for the advice Typographica, will do.
Cheers.
- rasko40
the special characters dont work in quark, but they do in Illustrator :(
- 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.
- Nairn0
How curious.
I convinced a friend to go with Neotech for a catalogue, only to realise just yesterday that my special chars aren't showing up in Illy.
The font set contains them - they're just not displaying in Illy. Which is, to say the least, a pain in the arse.
After lunch I'll see if I can fix it (wondering whether my setup's too old to handle OpenType properly - might try converting the OT to TT... Are you on PC or Mac there, Rasko?)
- 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
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?
;)
- Nairn0
I give up.
My s'ware doesn't open the file, so i can't convert. I can't use a demo of convertor s'ware and swap the glyphs as there're too many iterations, and I can't [for the life of me] work out how to use 'cygwin' to get fontforge to work on my computer.
So, like you, rasko - i've just changed the font.
P'ah.
(one I own, you'll be happy to hear, typo! :)
- 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.
- 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 :)
- Typographica0
Does not sound like a legitimate copy to me.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!!