... you to the article. Skia was initially a QuickDraw GX font and had much more extrapolative potential (amazingly so) than what was eventually made available as a TrueType font. Might want to somehow deferentiate this? Just this past ...

Forum topic - beejay - 25 Apr 2003 - 11:28pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... 1 PostScript fonts, and Apple and Microsoft's TrueType fonts), as well as serving the needs of its two creators. From ... benefits from the work done by Apple on TrueType GX (lately known as Apple Advanced Typography or AAT), which had a ...

Wiki - Miguel Sousa - 21 Sep 2009 - 4:44pm - 0 comments

... for an app to do multi-line composition and also use the GX/AAT Line Layout Manager. Maybe the recent changes in the AAT ... to the standard character. Just like the way Type1 and TrueType SC fonts work. A putative OT Mrs Eaves, with the two sizes of ...

Forum topic - eekamouse - 1 Dec 2006 - 12:35pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... And on Type1: the 256 character limit applied even to Truetype. The large layout came with Truetype GX and now Opentype/Unicode. It's not such a recent and so widespread ...

Forum topic - capthaddock - 11 Feb 2003 - 10:44pm - 23 comments - 0 attachments

... character set and encoding constraints of Type 1 and TrueType (though at least TrueType had more flexibility on the language ... with them, unlike Type 1 or classical TrueType. (AAT/GX may also have means of dealing with these issues; I don't know.) ...

Forum topic - pablohoney77 - 24 Feb 2004 - 4:58pm - 63 comments - 0 attachments

... off a great new feature by default is always a mistake, as GX showed. So what's the problem with CT that mandated this ... is that this is an artifact of overzealous y-direction TrueType hinting. For comparison, here are some images I made on OSX. ... bitmap representation. The scan conversion rule we use in TrueType is if the center of the pixel (or a virtual pixel in the case of ...

Forum topic - John Hudson - 29 Mar 2005 - 2:43am - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... platform, and between all major font formats: PostScript, TrueType and OpenType. TransType Pro supports batch conversion so users ... If the user converts standard Type 1 fonts or TrueType GX/AAT fonts into OpenType, TransType Pro 3 will automatically add some ...

News - twardoch - 15 Feb 2005 - 9:48pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... when they had the format of the fonts converted to TrueType for their internal use." Why convert to TrueType if ... to the wonderful job do MS. After the fabulous Mac 7 and GX and the bunch of new creative fonts, nothing appeared. Sound S Jobs who have ...

Forum topic - kris - 26 Oct 2004 - 1:23pm - 29 comments - 0 attachments

... Microsoft) *Web fonts (Microsoft Core Web TrueType) *Software application fonts (bundled with Adobe ... and egg problem. Not having this is one of the reasons GX failed, and AAT is failing. T Why did MM fail? hhp ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 63 comments - 0 attachments

... Studio 5 will internally support "multimaster" TrueType fonts. You will not be able to generated a "shipping" "MM ... 2. Mac OS X has native support for so-called TrueType GX/AAT Variation fonts. They are part of GX/AAT, the Apple-only advanced ...

Forum topic - valerie - 25 Jan 2005 - 3:20pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments