To fix my problems with ITC Avant Garde Gothic I edited it directly in a program called Transtype 4. What does all this mean for Mac user's of VW Cloud Services? Here's some practical information I learned . The generated version tend to have rounded corners, be slightly lighter weight and have other characteristics that make them distinguishable.) (In some cases VW will generate a fake styled version of a font but that is not happening here. With Century Gothic Bold for example, it assigns it the correct font but also adds a Bold style to it.
This is a failing in how the Mac version of VW writes font assignments into a file. As a secondary test, I typed some example text using Century Gothic, Century Gothic Bold, Century Gothic Italic and Century Gothic Bold Italic in the Pages word processor. The problem here is that in most cases these fonts aren’t actually “missing”. The Windows version of VW just can’t connect the dots that Century Gothic styled Bold and the font named Century Gothic Bold are the same thing. VW Cloud Services also sends this email about the missing fonts. Here’s what you get when putting a file containing the various incarnations of Century Gothic through VW Cloud Services. Only Century Gothic styled Bold will work.
You are able to select Century Gothic Bold as a font from the font menu and it will look ok locally on your machine, but it will not work with VW Cloud Services. To access any of the styled fonts in VW you need to choose Century Gothic and then style it using the Bold, Italic or Bold Italic. My fonts for this demonstration are Century Gothic, Century Gothic Bold, Century Gothic Italic, and Century Gothic Bold Italic. I chose this font family because it appears on the VW Cloud Services font list ( ) and theoretically should just work. On the surface VW seems to work fine with all of the fonts on my Mac but there are some hidden issues that seem to affect interaction with VW Cloud Services. Its solely based on my experience of troubleshooting and in no way represents anything beyond that. I’m going to try to stick to my observations and stay away from editorializing my feelings about the experience. Its based on my four year journey of figuring out why VW Cloud Services wouldn’t work with my preferred font - ITC Avant Garde Gothic.
It doesn’t deal with missing characters or other VW font issues. This post is about the how and why of fonts for Mac users who want to work with VW Cloud Services.
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