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- New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme
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... say I am quite dismayed. Here is what they've done: 1. You no longer receive an actual font file, at least not that you can see. ... I use, who still won't get Quark 7, doesn't do Open Type - so to hand my work over to a professional - would be difficult. Would ... Notice Letterhead Fonts are now offered in Postscript Open Type, etc. if you click on that - Chuck is giving full ...
Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments
- Spiro 0.01 release
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... to get full control of Beziers, and unfortunately too many type designers can't separate their design choices from their digital ... behavior). Similarly, when you press Apple-P, it saves a PostScript file to /tmp/foo.ps. I then use some command-line scripts (mostly ...
Forum topic - raph - 9 May 2007 - 7:19am - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- InDesign Black Output on PDF Export
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... more difficult to register, especially say, if you have type set in 6pt, light, in white, on top, of that. Even if you add like 30 ... will print as a 400% rich black (full CMYK) on color PostScript devices. As this is well over the total ink limit, it's will look ...
Forum topic - circehouse - 10 Feb 2007 - 2:56pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments
- Five Steps to Font Freedom
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... and proposes some ideas on propagating them such that web type would be 'liberated'. The bullet points are: 1. Convince the Font ... it had to be completely revisited and re-manufactured for PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, et al. Each time a font format changes, the ...
Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 9 Mar 2006 - 7:51am - 51 comments - 0 attachments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... Bodoni. The variety of serif treatment in Incunabula type accomodates the fact that had they been made the same, they would have ... of the simulation. On the other hand some Beowulf-style postscript coding to provide a letterpress filter would be valuable - as it ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- PDF font extraction
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... me, when I implored someone to "flatten" their pdf so the type would be a graphic and not a font! (And therefore, impossible to extract.) ... programming skill at all is needed here. But today's PostScript and PDF files are much trickier so that a high degree of proficiency ...
Forum topic - Nick Cooke - 11 Jun 2007 - 1:03am - 97 comments - 0 attachments
- OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?
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... problems that occasions. I imagine people who have used type differently may feel otherwise. When we first started using PostScript Type 1 fonts, I decided that all glyphs in a font (e.g., roman, ...
Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments
- free fonts
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... to find out if the font is legit or not. Misprinted Type offers some Misprinted Type offers some of their fonts for free. ... Adobe unlicensed its PS1 format as an attempt to make the PostScript Page Description Language the de facto standard. In doing so it ...
Forum topic - thegirlnextdoor - 5 Oct 2006 - 12:12pm - 69 comments - 0 attachments
- Quality of a free font
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... in the font. Now from 1980 to 1995 (when we started using PostScript fonts), we also couldn't get inside the font to make up special ... & slow to come. I, for one, rejoiced at PostScript Type 1 fonts. Yes, they printed too thin, esp. with direct-to-plate offset ...
Forum topic - Typical - 4 May 2007 - 11:36pm - 54 comments - 1 attachment
- Haas Unica research
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... happened, but I can help you on the typographic front: 1) I can mail you a copy of a uniquely detailed booklet outlining the ... in the area you might be interested in signing up for my type design class at ArtCenter next semester. Previously: ... in mind. Haas Unica is listed as releasing in 1980. Adobe Postscript is introduce in 1984. Eben is quite right - this Eben is ...
Forum topic - Corey Holms - 7 Mar 2006 - 5:18pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments
