[charlespaul]

Im trying to print a font called Rotis in a bold and italic style. their doesn't seem to be an outline file that exits for Rotis in bold italic. It displays fine on screen and prints in bold italic to a HP 930c inkjet printer, but wont print in bold italic to a any type of laser printer. I assume it has to do with the difference in the way that the printers understand post script fonts, but I cant find a solution. Any ideas? images/icons/shocked.gif

[Nobody]

There are things you could do, but it depends on the program you are using. Skewing the text is one possibility. It depends on how much text there is and what program you are in. I am not sure but you may be able to create a bold italic font using Fontographer. Maybe someone else here with experience using it can help on that subject.
BTW, Otl Aicher, who designed the font did not include a bold italic version. Maybe he didn't think it looked good?
Jim

[Nobody]

Additional to JPMH's excellent reply:

Many fonts do not have bold and/or italic as part of their "family." Many others permit "italic", but it's not true italic - just slants the letters and looks low-class (helvetica for example - which is a lousy font anyway.)

Classy fonts like palatino do contain true bolding and italics - very elegant while also being practical as opposed to being ornamental.

WDL

[AG_Jeff]

I have to assume you're having the same problem we do.

We use Rotis for one particular job in our print shop all the time. The customer sends us her QuarkXpress file with the font bold-ed or italicized, or both, every time. She uses the Style buttons (clicking "B" for bold, etc.). The font always defaults to Courier when we try to print it.

Lesson: Don't do that. As the previous post states, there is no bold-italics version, so you can't count on the Style work-arounds to...well...work.

[Nobody]

Here is a reliable way to cheat with fonts that don't offer a slanted face: You can convert the text to outlines and skew the result. This works well for a few words in XPress, InDesign, or a drawing app.