Fonts & Typefaces
If you are supplying your job as source files (instead of PDF), you must send all fonts that are used in your document.

Font Formats
PostScript Type 1: Natively supported on Mac OS X, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. For all other operating systems Adobe Type Manager or a similar PostScript rasterizer is required.

PostScript Type 1 fonts are not cross-platform compatible. Macintosh PostScript Type 1 fonts will only work on Macintosh, PC PostScript Type 1 fonts will only work on Windows.

PostScript Type 1 fonts consist of two files, a printer font and screen font. We need both of them in order to work with source files.


True Type: Supported natively by all Macintosh and Windows operating systems. The font files are not cross-platform compatible. Macintosh TrueType fonts will only work on Macintosh, PC TrueType fonts will only work on Windows.

Open Type: A new cross-platform font format.
OpenType comes in two varieties:

CFF Postscript (.otf)
OpenType fonts that are based on PostScript outlines and have the suffix .otf. They are cross-platform compatible with Macintosh and Windows provided the proper utilities are installed on your system. The same font file will work on both Macintosh and Windows.

TrueType(.ttf)
OpenType fonts that contain TrueType outlines and have the suffix .ttf. This font format is supported natively by Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Although this format should be cross-platform compatible, at this time that is not the reality. To insure that TrueType OpenType fonts work correctly, Macintosh and Windows users should make sure that they use the appropriate versions of the fonts.