For the last few years and versions InDesign prints a weird auto-sloped Courier instead of whichever VF is in the document. The latest version (17.1) does too. Has happened on the last few MacOS versions, and two different printers. PDFs generated from InDesign with VF will print fine from Preview/Acrobat. Almost every other app can print VF fine.
Does anyone else have this? Are we prudent to recommend that InDesign is still beta with VF and we can therefore not support it?
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I just ran a test with the STIX Two Text variable TTF printing direct from InDesign 17.0.1 to my HP LaserJet, and it worked. If you want to test that font, we might be able to determine if your issue is with the printer or with specific variable fonts.
https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts/tree/master/fonts/variable_ttf
Adobe’s variable font support in InDesign certainly has some issues. We’ve found their expectations around some STAT and fvar settings to be unusual and contrary to the spec, but that affected roman vs italic confusion in the variations UI, not printing.
Looks like I might need to do a more thorough test—the fact that my current VF project is printing fine does not mean much, clearly.
https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools/issues/297#issuecomment-780732615
I don’t know if this is related to the printing issue, but it is not impossible that this is PS name entry related, since printers will rely on that to identify fonts.