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Thank you very much. This will be very helpful for...

2008-09-18T09:40:00.000-05:00

Thank you very much. This will be very helpful for a lot of people.
Jeff

I am working on providing pdfs of the typesetting ...

2008-09-18T08:55:00.000-05:00

I am working on providing pdfs of the typesetting for several of our Bibles in the next week or so. I will include several of our most popular editions for comparison.

Jeff:
The NLT Study Bible font sizes are as follows:

Scripture text - Lucerna - 9/9.75 the first number is the font size, the second nuber refers to the leading.

Study Notes - Ocean Sans - 7.5/8

The Personal Size Large Print - Lucerna - 12/13

If anyone wants more information about the Lucerna...

2008-09-18T00:56:00.000-05:00

If anyone wants more information about the Lucerna typeface, see the post I wrote a couple of years ago here:

http://tinyurl.com/4yjavg

@scripture zealot: Yes, if you print out the downl...

2008-09-17T10:49:00.000-05:00

@scripture zealot: Yes, if you print out the download PDFs of the NLT Study Bible at 100%, it should match the printed product exactly (with all the usual caveats about not knowing what your printer is doing).

I believe Crossway (if that's ok to mention) does ...

2008-09-16T15:15:00.000-05:00

I believe Crossway (if that's ok to mention) does the PDF thing.

I wonder if these accurately reflect the text size if printed out:
http://www.nltstudybible.com/05_downloads/downloads.asp

The CBD site does the scans of the Bible pages but those are images and those would also render differently on different systems as your web guy explained. So they can only be used to see what the font and layout look like.

I hope it's not right under my nose, but do you know what the typeface/font and size is in the NLTSB? And how that compares to the NLT LP Personal Edition? If that's asking too much don't worry about it. I know you must be awfully busy.

I like the NLT the more I read it, having the NLTSB, and am considering the Personal Edition as a reading Bible. I would imagine others may be interested in a comparison.
Jeff

Jeff,That may work, I'm not sure. One of our web g...

2008-09-16T13:44:00.000-05:00

Jeff,

That may work, I'm not sure. One of our web guys told me that the screen resolution was the biggest issue for showing the true size comparison and I hadn't looked beyond that.

That explains why I liked the font in the Study Bi...

2008-09-16T13:33:00.000-05:00

That explains why I liked the font in the Study Bible so much!

Couldn't a PDF file be made with the exact point s...

2008-09-16T12:59:00.000-05:00

Couldn't a PDF file be made with the exact point size and then instruct people to print it out to see exactly what it looks like? I'm not sure if that foolproof way of demonstrating it or not.
Jeff