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Critiques of the OpenType format?

... flavors of OpenType fonts) see this thread called TrueType versus PostScript . Thank you all for your very Thank you all ... it if you could help me to solve this problem. GX/AAT Variations are great fonts. Zycon, Jam, Chunk and Buffalo Gal show the ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments

CARTER, MATTHEW

... 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 - 10:28pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments

OpenType

... 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 - 3:44pm - 0 comments

Incubator, Incubator Pro & Incubator GX?

... develop this with Sampo. It was ec ipsed by Cameleon and GX Variations technology. I have it somewhere for sure. . . "Deltas ... able to find it, legally or otherwise); http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/truetype/sampo.htm This page says Sampo Kaasila of ...

Forum topic - cursusductus - 12 Apr 2006 - 8:52am - 21 comments - 0 attachments

The history of designs that flopped

... >In the type world Maybe Multiple Masters, TrueType GX, would qualify? Commercial failures are one Commercial failures are ...

Forum topic - Dunwich Type - 5 Jun 2007 - 7:51am - 40 comments - 0 attachments

What interests you most about Opentype?

... appropriate. This had seemed to me to be a key aspect of TrueType GX that was never fully delivered. I guess that leads me to ask, is OpenType an ...

Forum topic - dezcom - 18 Apr 2007 - 12:25pm - 65 comments - 0 attachments

OT syntax rules: beginner's question

... ) to convert a binary OpenType or TrueType font into XML and preview the internal table structure. A. ... my DFLT feature. Some reasons are: (a) With OT (and GX/AAT) fonts have become like programs, being much more than a mapped ... is all in the font. So in AAT (formerly known as TrueType GX), all the burden of implementing a complex typesetting system is ...

Forum topic - Rhythmus.be - 3 Dec 2006 - 6:29pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

Adobe InDesign vs. QuarkXPress

... 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 - 11:35am - 59 comments - 0 attachments

W3C takes a fresh look at linking fonts to Web pages

... This is also my experience. There are thousands of TrueType font families out there. Some examples: ... Typically, four truetype files are zipped up into a file which -- roughly speaking -- has a ... functionality? As long as you leave a format hint for TT GX, what other functionality could we use? > Fonts and image replacement ...

Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 5 Jul 2006 - 6:28am - 99 comments - 0 attachments

Font variation mechanism in Mac OS 10.4

... to see this supported natively in the OS. Raph, TrueType variations Raph, TrueType variations fonts have been around for a ... 1) Note that TrueType variations are part of AAT (GX before that), and are supported in much the same ways/places as AAT. 2) ...

Forum topic - raph - 8 Jun 2006 - 3:51pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments