[X4U] Substitue to Word: TextEdit, NeoOffice and AbiWord, about fonts

[Jon Marett]

Back when I was pre-flighting print jobs at a pre-press company we  
called these 'bastardized fonts'.

jon



On Aug 25, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> The old Mac used to apply false bold, italics, etc. to fonts.  
> Nowadays, in
> Mac OS X, some programs still do this. But others will not let you  
> apply
> these false styles and will instead require that you change the  
> font to an
> official bold or italic variant of the font (these are sometimes  
> called Demi
> and Oblique)
>
> For instance, there is not an italic version of Lucida Grande, so  
> TextEdit
> will not let you apply italics to any text using the Lucida Grande  
> font.