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Hello all.
We have a weird problem here. A co-worker opened a file in InDesign on his Mac and even though the fonts were loaded he was having an issue with the way a heading was displayed. It did not look like the supplied PDF and was highlighted until we went to "preview". We checked the fonts in "find font" and all was well there and peachy.
I opened it on my iMac and loaded the same fonts and it displayed just fine. Even though it was also highlighted, my preview showed fine.
My question is how can two Macs with the same fonts loaded show this particular font, Benton Sans, differently.
BTW, I'm running 10.5.8 on my iMac and he's running 10.6.6 on a tower, if that makes a diff.
Cheers.

The highlight is what alerted us to the problem. When we checked the fonts in ID it said the fonts were loaded same on both Macs. When I made my PDF the font displayed fine and said all fonts were indeed embedded. It's been through our Apogee Prepress software and the high res proof came out golden.
My worry is two computers, running the same program, with the same fonts installed that are displaying differently.
Were lucky this was only a four pager, on much larger books we got to be realllllly careful.

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