I was recently hired in IT/Data for a small lettershop & mailing firm and have been tasked with educating myself on font management.

Everything is well documented except the logic by which Windows/Office/InDesign group installed fonts (by typeface/family/style etc) to generate a font list for the user.

Simple example; When you italicize a sentence in Arial, Word will look for an ArialItalic font file.  If none exists, Word will 'improvise' italics by slanting the characters.

By what process does Word decide font file X is "Arial Italic"?  Where is this logic documented?

Any help would be great, need to develop a professional understanding of this and I'm having a hard time even getting off the ground!

Thanks,

-P

• Moved by Cindy Meister MVPMVP Friday, September 04, 2015 2:11 PM not developer-related

>>>Simple example; When you italicize a sentence in Arial, Word will look for an ArialItalic font file.  If none exists, Word will 'improvise' italics by slanting the characters.

Do you want to italicize a sentence in Arial if none exists, Word will 'improvise' italics by slanting the characters, automation or manual setting?