Hi, I am a typesetter and recently switched to Mac and parallels. I create automated stylesheets which will be used under a pure windows environment. Whatever I create needs be 100% the same on my enviromentas as on a pure PC. I work with professional typesetting tool that works directly in unicode and XML. The information for the kerning of the fonts is taken from uniscribe and the font itself. I have recently found that my (win/parallels) PDF's do not match the PDF's I get from my client using the same stylesheet on a pure PC. The difference is very small and I found that the kerning of the font and the spacing between the words is not the same in the two environments. So where do I need to look? Does Mac OS influence the rendering of the Glyphs? Would anything change if I install windows under Boot Camp and then run parallels? I am open for any suggestion. I am aware of the awkwardness of my question. There are many ends to this question.I just need to know in which direction I will need to go! Matthias
Matthias, It may be an issue in your windows configuration. I do a fair amount of typesetting myself, and haven't had any differences. Are you running the same versions of Acrobat and/or other software? As far as Windows knows, it IS running on a "pure" pc. While parallels handles the graphics, its the windows os that has to deal with font issues.
Yes we are running the same software etc. I made sure to build the same windows enviroment. The difference is just a hair width. But it is good to know that windows IS dealing with all font issues. Matthias
Hi, I just installed windows using boot Camp. And surprise surprise the kerning issue was gone when I run in 'pure' windows mode. So there must be something or some character parallels does not like!
These are OTF fonts Linotype Helvetica the latest OTF font that was issued that has multiple character sets.-
