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New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... companies. If people who support Macs in education and publishing put up "No Letterhead Fonts!" policies, this sentiment could get ... call with purchases, just an icon that appears on our desktop and e-mailed invoice. Not very personal, no evidence of a human being ...

Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments

OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?

... that. As a type guy and a designer who has been using desktop publishing software for twenty years, I am quite glad to have small caps ...

Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments

Not Obeying the 'Times' Requirement

... LOL - I once had to typeset the interior of a book for a publishing house - they LOVED Times Roman and didn't want to use it. So we set ... or Georgia. (This may be a holdover from the early days of desktop publishing, when too many people were stoked that they didn't have to ...

Forum topic - copperfont - 3 Mar 2007 - 7:09pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments

TrueType Versus Postscript

... the printing trades for almost forty years and with the desktop version of same for fifteen, and I can tell you categorically that the ... because the PostScript drawing model is standard in the publishing industry. Most people draw in PostScript curves. Even that FontLab ...

Forum topic - AndrewSipe - 25 Mar 2010 - 10:04am - 37 comments - 0 attachments

Do font pros really use FontLab or Fontographer?

... I remember reading somewhere that during the early days of desktop publishing, they would usually scan the sketches into photoshop, editing it ...

Forum topic - msa - 7 Mar 2007 - 8:29am - 75 comments - 0 attachments

More ponderings on type education

... the bad type we see is not done by trained designers. When Desktop Publishing came in 20 years ago, the typesetting craftsman began to be replaced ...

Forum topic - Norbert Florendo - 26 Oct 2005 - 7:31am - 12 comments - 0 attachments

Fractions and nut fractions in the same opentype font?

... as the default fraction feature in Austin, which I am publishing next year. http://typophile.com/node/28517 Here's the ... After all, if Adobe thinks it's OK to clutter up my OS X desktop with their dysfunctional CS icon candy, I wouldn't mind cluttering up ...

Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 5 Oct 2006 - 9:38am - 27 comments - 0 attachments

Alternative Desktop Publishing Software

Curious, does anyone have experience using any other desktop publishing software other than InDesign or Quark ? Is there anything ...

Forum topic - AndrewSipe - 1 Dec 2006 - 11:24am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

Resumes?

... just how it is. ;o) DPI is simply a setting that some desktop publishing products use to figure out default output if not otherwise ...

Forum topic - evilfansanfran - 26 Feb 2007 - 12:02pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

Graphic Designer vs Typographer

... the gene pool, and production teams were swept out with "Desktop Publishing." If you don't know (and I mean TRULY KNOW) typography, then how ...

Forum topic - Eric_West - 18 Sep 2005 - 8:36am - 108 comments - 0 attachments