
The notion of being required to pay for an OS seems absurd, especially if no one else can modify its kernel. To me your statement of "the notion of being required to pay for a font seems absurd, especially if no one else can see it once I buy it unless they buy it too." is the same as saying: All of stuff you posted above made me cringe because the suggested remedies for why this shouldn't be this way to begin with, cause so many other problems that, IMHO, are much worse than the issue at hand. Obviously this isn't your area of expertise, and you don't claim it is, you just bring it up because you're trying to solve a problem. There are a ton of functional aspects that go into. Thank you all for the sage advice and I'll try not to mention fonts for at least another year. I sense that I'm just digging myself into a hole trying to explain myself, so I'll just shut up now.

I guess that if I print the document on dead trees then they can see it too, but again, that seems so quaint and antiquated anymore. I appreciate that one font may suit a specific use over another font, but the notion of being required to pay for a font seems absurd, especially if no one else can see it once I buy it unless they buy it too. This is just a prime example of why I'm not an artistic type. Quote M A V I C Wow, so many responses to what you just wrote but I wont go there.

MacResource User Map: [ Edited 1 time(s). The font shouldn't be a separate entity from the rest of the document. Once you create a document with a font, it should be part of the document. To me, this is like saying that I can't open an AutoCAD file unless I buy 'blue' because this file uses blue lines and blue doesn't come with AutoCAD's default configuration.
#SELECT ALTERNATE FONT AUTOCAD FOR MAC WONT ACCEPT TTF FONT SOFTWARE#
Is there anyway to replace the font without having the font that was used to create the document? I'm not a CS user so it is a completely foreign software to me. I can tell the difference between ComicSans and Courier and Times New Roman, but beyond that, they all look pretty much the same to me so long as they are used to write English words. I know that fonts are a big deal to people in the print business, but frankly, it is only a big deal to them not the people reading the material that they have so carefully selected the font for. Why anyone would use a proprietary font is beyond me. I think that the goal is to quit using a proprietary font so we don't want to pay $125 just so that we can delete the font. They are cross-platform, and money spent now means fewer headaches later.

Just buy the OpenType version of the fonts from Adobe.
