Google fonts

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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.

[DCurry]

Telling a client to avoid using something is like asking them "please use more of this all the time."

[Joe]

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.

[pspdfppdfxhd]

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!

[DCurry]

Their other printer never had a problem with it.

[Joe]

Their other printer never had a problem with it.

Neither will their next one.

[DCurry]

We're all the next one.

[Joe]

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:

[pspdfppdfxhd]

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.

[DCurry]

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.

[Joe]

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.

[pspdfppdfxhd]

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. 

[johnny_jay]

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.

[David]

you can always sub them out with a really nice Multi Master font...


   

[Joe]

you can always sub them out with a really nice Multi Master font...


   

How dare you!