Anyone had any bad experiences with Google fonts?
We seemed to have run into one with a pdf. Wondering if we should tell our client to avoid using them.
Telling a client to avoid using something is like asking them "please use more of this all the time."
Using Google fonts in a print project is akin to sleeping with the devil. They are WEB fonts for a reason.
But yeah what dcurry said.
Thanks, but I am telling them anyway. A pdf had a google font used in a heading and it substitued itself in one line for another font. Never seen anything like it, hard to believe but it happened. I have to give them an answer and I will tell them I consulted with experts and they told me to AVOID GOOGLE FONTS PLEASE!
Their other printer never had a problem with it.
Quote from: DCurry on June 10, 2021, 06:25:51 AM
Their other printer never had a problem with it.
Neither will their next one. :sarcasm:
We're all the next one.
Quote from: DCurry on June 10, 2021, 06:36:18 AM
We're all the next one.
And the one after you will be told their last printer never had a problem with that. Prepress 101....people will lie to you. :angry:
Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on June 10, 2021, 06:23:48 AM
Thanks, but I am telling them anyway. A pdf had a google font used in a heading and it substitued itself in one line for another font. Never seen anything like it, hard to believe but it happened. I have to give them an answer and I will tell them I consulted with experts and they told me to AVOID GOOGLE FONTS PLEASE!
Youse guys are the experts I consulted by the way.
I can't say I've ever had a problem with them, nor even noticed them. Maybe I've never received any jobs using them - don't really know. I would think that as long as it's embedded in the PDF it shouldn't pose a problem.
Prinergy doesn't like them a lot of the time. Errors out during trapping with some BS error message no one knows what it means. If I download the font and then outline it with Pitstop they then trap just fine.
Quote from: DCurry on June 10, 2021, 07:29:44 AM
I can't say I've ever had a problem with them, nor even noticed them. Maybe I've never received any jobs using them - don't really know. I would think that as long as it's embedded in the PDF it shouldn't pose a problem.
Maybe, but I like Joes answer better to a weird issue that I don't understand because it gives me an answer to this 'END OF THE WORLD" mistake. :banana:
Quote from: Joe on June 10, 2021, 07:37:19 AM
Prinergy doesn't like them a lot of the time. Errors out during trapping with some BS error message no one knows what it means. If I download the font and then outline it with Pitstop they then trap just fine.
We have had the same experience. If a customer asks, I tell them when using Google fonts to always review proofs carefully.
you can always sub them out with a really nice Multi Master font...
:old: :drunk3:
Quote from: david on June 10, 2021, 07:59:43 AM
you can always sub them out with a really nice Multi Master font...
:old: :drunk3:
How dare you!
:facepalm:
UGGG :vomit:
Quote from: Joe on June 10, 2021, 08:13:20 AM
Quote from: david on June 10, 2021, 07:59:43 AM
you can always sub them out with a really nice Multi Master font...
:old: :drunk3:
How dare you!
:facepalm:
I live on the wild side...
:dev2:
Quote from: david on June 10, 2021, 08:41:56 AM
Quote from: Joe on June 10, 2021, 08:13:20 AM
Quote from: david on June 10, 2021, 07:59:43 AM
you can always sub them out with a really nice Multi Master font...
:old: :drunk3:
How dare you!
:facepalm:
I live on the wild side...
:dev2:
You probably run with scissors too!
I gotta be honest... I used them a few years back... even made a post here about it... I didn't run into any trouble.
Anytime somebody uses the "my other printer" crap I want to say so why did you leave them or did they fire you?
We run a great many Google jobs with their fonts and only on a rare occasion is there an issue (it's usually theirs, of course they would never admit it).