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Authored by: Anonymous on May 07, '04 12:27:35PM

I must correct one of my statements in the main hint. With Photoshop and Illustrator CS you need to have an active Geneva (although not in the system folders) because it is used, not to show the labels, but the readings in the info palette. If you don't have this font open, the info palette of those apps will be shown as usual, but it will not give you any values at all.

Geneva also has some obscure relation to how Suitcase X1 preview pane resizes to display multi-linear and large sized examples. Apparently suitcase uses geneva's leading instead of the particular font you are previewing to set the height of the preview space assigned to each font, deactivating geneva makes previews look "croped". With this font open (even in your classic folder) Suitcase's preview will work just fine

Please Rob if you read this, be so kind to update the main hint. Thanks.

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Authored by: ig88 on May 08, '04 01:25:22PM

i would just like to add, that you may wish to keep monaco running as well. the terminal needs it to show up, and every other font looks pretty miserable in the window.

as a designer, i must use my own helvetica neue that is in all my docs, and prints well with all my printers inhouse and out of house.

what have i had very good luck with for some time?

the list of active fonts:
arial
arial black
arial narrow
arial rounded MT bold
geneva
helvetica neue [custom]
lucida grande
monaco
verdana

all the rest of my working fonts are handled thru suitcase and are on/off per job.

i use font book to turn all stuff off except the above, and i actually replace the helvetica and helvetica neue with my own.

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