I can’t seem to make font embedding work with Equity or Concourse (in either .ttf or .otf) in Word, though other non-Microsoft fonts - such as Google fonts - seem to work fine. Is there licensing or other issue I might be overlooking?
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There is no licensing prohibition against embedding my fonts in Word documents. The difficulties arise with Word itself, as I describe in the piece linked above.
Thanks, Matthew.
I did read the article; if I understand it correctly, it suggests that if a .ttf format is used, embedding should work (albeit with a false italic).
Other non-Microsoft .ttf fonts do seem to embed correctly. Microsoft’s documentation suggests that .otf files should now work too, although I’ve not tested that yet.
I’m testing this on the desktop version; embedding doesn’t work on the mobile or tablets versions.
Happily, it works fine with PDFs; the only issue is sharing drafts with other lawyers.
My advice on sharing draft documents. Roughly: steer clear of font embedding.
That is doubtless sound advice, though possibly now outdated. But my real question is: other .otf and .ttf fonts seem to embed perfectly well in the newest version of Word (Office 365).
However, those from MB Type don’t seem to. Could there be some reason for that?
Send me a private email with your order number and I’ll look into it.
Happily, it works fine with PDFs; the only issue is sharing drafts with other lawyers.
This seems to me like an accidental feature. Draft documents being marked with a different, less-attractive font could be very useful.