Poor typographic support

barleycorn wrote on 1/25/2002, 8:18 AM

I'm new to Vegas but already productive and very much enjoying it.

The one thing I find rather puzzling is the poor typographic support. Since the text generation tools can't use PostScript fonts – thereby ruling out most of the major type libraries – they're useless for any serious work. I'd be slightly less worried if OpenType fonts weren't also excluded!

Has any reason ever been given for the omissions? Is there any prospect of the situation improving or have I misjudged Vegas' aspirations? Apart from a single lament by cheesehole back in June 2001 (MessageID=73896) I've been unable to find any other similar criticisms.

Vegas Video 3.0, Windows XP Professional.

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 1/25/2002, 9:36 AM

Vegas supports TT fonts only at this time. If you need a certain ps font, you might consider laying the text out in Photoshop or whatever and saving that as .png, with alpha.

DavidW12 wrote on 1/25/2002, 10:19 AM

I agree, this is the one area of Vegas 3 that isn't very professional, in my opinion. I mean it works fine for what it is, but what we need is a way to use vector graphics.

We always used "character generators" at TV stations, such as the Chyron. The character graphics were vector, not bit map.

Cheesehole wrote on 1/25/2002, 11:53 AM

i've also mentioned this a few times in the past year and a half. this is the first time i've seen a response, and i'm guessing it means future support for PS fonts is a no-go.

i've requested the feature here:
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/support/productsuggestion.asp

if enough people submit the request for that feature, we might get it.