font name vs postscript name vs DOS name

[humbled]

How do I ask this font question? Here goes... (CS2 Win XP)
This job was completed (94 files) using Franklin Gothic Book.
One month later, when open the first file to make changes, the font is now listed in the unsightly [] and no longer available, highlighted in pink. Tech Support said the font is actually an ITC Franklin Gothic Book, but when I set up the files it was only selectable as the F.G.B. name without the ITC. When I do assign the ITC F.G.B. (which is now selectable) the spacing isn't the same, which means it isn't "the same font". We work with Suitcase with fonts on the server.

Where could this original FGB font have resided? Does Adobe do font substitutions without indicating to the operator? Which name does Adobe look for when identifying a font, the font file name or ps name inside the file?

[P***@adobeforums.com]

I THINK there were a couple of different versions of Franklin Gothic that shipped with Office over the years.

I have Franklin Gothic Book (opentype) by ITC with a .ttf extension (version 2) which is either from Office or Windows, FranklinGothicITCbyBT Book, which is from Bitstream and came with CorelDraw, and FranklinGotItcTEE-Book from URW which I think came with Freehand, and Franklin Gothic Std from Adobe, but they all have different filenames and can co-exist.

So the question is how did the version change on server in a month. Did they upgrade anything Microsoft that might have installed a newer version of Franklin Gothic? Have you looked to see if the other version is still on the server and simply deactivated by Suitcase?

If you run Find Font it should tell you the regular and postscript names of the missing font, although not the filename for a search, which may help you in locating it.

[T***@adobeforums.com]

Does Adobe do font substitutions without indicating to the operator?




If by "Adobe" you mean "InDesign," then, no, it does not.

Which name does Adobe look for when identifying a font, the font file
name or ps name inside the file?




No application I am aware of ever cares about the font file name.

InDesign stores the PostScript FontName and the Adobe menu name (which is the "preferred" menu name in an OpenType font, else is derived from a database for Type 1 fonts in the Adobe Type library, else is derived from several other name fields in a Type 1 or TrueType font).

Under normal circumstances, with the same version of InDesign (that is, not going from CS1 to CS2 or the like), only the menu name is used to identify the font.

Regards,

T

[T***@adobeforums.com]

I should have mentioned also that both ITC and non-ITC versions of Franklin Gothic are in the Adobe Type Library.

Cheers,

T