At prepress stage a lot of speculations are made as how a document
to be printed will look ultimately. Also, we like to try out different fonts,
text size and styles in layout program. This may seem an exciting way of
experimenting, but that can be rather disappointing for you.
Almost all, standard layout program including Quark has font
bar, which provides the option to choose font types and their characteristics. This
bar has drop down menu that allows users to select font name and other
attributes, such as font weight, kerning and leading, and paragraph alignment.
So, if you want you can choose characteristics like “italic” “bold” despite of
the fact that the chosen font doesn’t consist of those specific styles. Even
though you get such features, making any change while creating document in
prepress
stage is not suggested. Reason, when the document is sent for printing
it is not always necessary that you will get the font exactly as you are
expecting and one that you have applied arbitrarily. Printing machines may not
have the font you have set for your document and as a result the machine will
replace the font available in the system.
For instance, if you have chosen Tahoma font family which allows
only Tahoma Regular and Tahoma Bold, using the extra drop down menu you can
convert it into an italicized font. However, if you take it to the printing
machine you will find it removed by the machine and replaced by some other font
fed in the system. Now, this can be problematic because you never know which
font style will be your font will be replaced with. Hence, always make sure
that you choose only those fonts which are already available in the actual font
family.
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