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Truetype font software Font engine for TrueType and Type 1 by Type Solutions Inc. Also sells spectacular hinting tools. Truetype is a software package for the Palm Pilot that permits the use of truetype fonts on the Palm Pilot. Font software specialists, who have worked on an Adobe type 1 to truetype converter (as a built-in part of Windows NT, and a separate product called Janus), and are working with Microsoft on OpenType tools. cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/ttsoftware.html

Monospaced versus Proportional If the font seems to be changed you could also remove the hinting related data, although this will result in a quality decrease. In a proportional font the width of each character, including the space character, varies with the shape of the character. Proportional fonts are easier to read and are preferred for publishing applications. www.high-logic.com /manual/monospacedvsproportional.html   (231 words)

BU Core Design - Design Elements - Fonts Myriad is an Adobe Originals font released in 1992 designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly with Fred Brady and Christopher Slye. The Myriad family is a sans-serif font, featuring a balanced treatment of letter proportions and design touches. The Verdana font family is specified as the main body/content typeface. www.bu.edu /coredesign/elements/fonts.html   (231 words)

CastleType Online Catalog of Fonts All fonts are expertly crafted, with hinting and extensive kern pairs. Here you will find an eclectic collection of display typefaces, including many art deco revivals, classic type styles inspired by ancient sources, non-alphabetic decorative fonts, an ever-growing selection of beautiful Cyrillic display faces, as well as many CastleType Originals. Please e-mail me at jason@castletype.com if you get this message after upgrading or if you need some information from this website right away. www.castletype.com   (231 words)

PostScript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Type 3 fonts allowed for all the sophistication of the PostScript language, but without the standardized approach to hinting. The rich font system used the PS graphics primitives to draw characters as line art, which could then be rendered at any resolution. One is that the fonts on other systems required the user to keep not only bitmaps for the screen, but also Type 1 for the printer. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Type_1_font   (2889 words)

Truetype versus type 1 There are human-readable forms of type 1 fonts, and somehow, the fonts feel like the cars from the fifties and sixties---in case of a problem, they can easily be fixed by the driver or any random mechanic, unlike the modern day machines with their electronic ignitions and remote control starters. The type 1 people put the absolute minimum in a font: name information, character width information, an encoding vector (the encoding vector says in what numerical position we must place the letter "a", for example), and the character outlines in the form of cubic Bezier curves. It is clear that nearly all fonts descend from the type 1 tribe. cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/ttvst1.html   (2028 words)

Type 1 font software The font technology was generally considered inferior because it did not allow hinting to make the fonts reproduce well on 300-dpi laser printers, although they generally were fine on filmsetters. Fonts may be converted from type 1 to truetype by ATM on Windows NT. Font software specialists, who have worked on an Adobe type 1 to truetype converter (as a built-in part of Windows NT, and a separate product called Janus), and are working with Microsoft on OpenType tools. cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/pssoftware.html   (2028 words)

type 1 fonts The hinting method of the Type 1 format is relatively simple: Most hints are declarative statements stating where key features of a character are located. The 1000 to 1 scaling in the Font- Matrix as shown is typical of a Type 1 font program and is highly recommended. It is important that every Type 1 font program and every PostScript language program start with a ``%!'' comment; otherwise, it may not be given the appropriate handling in some operating system environments. db.uwaterloo.ca /~dberry/COURSES/electronic.pub/fishler/type1.htm   (1385 words)

D-Type Font Engine and Grayscale Rasterizer: smooth, antialiased scalable graphics with TrueType, OpenType, Adobe Type 1 and DType fonts Supports multiple-master font technology, advanced text effects, unique automatic font hinting, fractional character positioning and much more. Portable, high-performance and high-quality scalable font engine for smooth (anti-aliased) text with built-in support for TrueType, OpenType, Type 1 and D-Type fonts. D-Type Font Engine and Grayscale Rasterizer: smooth, antialiased scalable graphics with TrueType, OpenType, Adobe Type 1 and DType fonts www.d-type.com   (367 words)

D-Type: About D-Type: Overview, Features, News, Customers, Release 4.0 D-Type Font Engine has a built-in auto-hinting subsystem that produces absolutely stunning results with virtually any font. To achieve this goal, unique algorithms had to be invented or developed: sophisticated anti-aliased rendering, revolutionary font hinting/auto-hinting and advanced real-time font interpolation are just a few of them. The goal of the project from the beginning was to create a superior font and scalable graphics rendering engine suitable for all types of applications - including the most demanding ones such as games and multi-media. www.d-type.com /about?z=p   (576 words)

Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : D Delta hinting makes bitmap on-screen displays of character glyph s look better on screen, at the expense of distorting the design of the actual glyph shape. However, the construction and size of « big font s » dictates that these extra delta hint instructions be used judiciously, so as not to bloat the size of the font. The biggest dilemma with delta hints is that TrueType fonts can be installed on systems having a variety of display resolutions, and each combination of point size and display resolution must be anticipated. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/d.htm   (576 words)

Bug ID: 4482430 Unexpected exception from NativeFontWrapper.registerFonts(Native Method) 4755211: Java2D font scaler has memory alignment bug in TrueType hinting code. I had suggested to them that they at least give us a workaround: 'include a property which takes a list of font names to skip. 4762039: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in Fontmanager.dll 4772892: Java2D: bad TrueType font data can crash Java font scaler. bugs.sun.com /bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4482430   (576 words)

Microsoft Typography - TrueType Hinting (4 of 5):How Does Hinting Help? Adding it to the right or left will affect the spacing of characters that precede or follow the letter 'i' in a word, while adding to the stem width will normally make it too heavy for the rest of the characters in the font. These are important considerations, for as the illustrations below show, intercharacter spacing can have a profound effect on the legibility of a font. The color of words is determined and complicated by a number of issues - such as the contrast between thick and thin stem weights, the size of the characters' internal spaces, the amounts of intercharacter spacing and interlinear spacing, the jaggedness of diagonal strokes, and the overall thickness of a stroke. www.microsoft.com /typography/TrueTypeHintingHow.mspx   (1657 words)

Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : H Hinting, as well as other processes involving the use of a font, is time-consuming. However, once a font character's outline is cached, the hinting process has already taken place and never needs to be repeated unless the cache is distroyed. In color devices, the situation is less clear, because a color hue is produced by using more than one primary or process color simultaneously, each color being limited to the width or height of a dot or pixel; and the spatial relationship or separation between dots or pixels is also an influencing factor. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/h.htm   (1657 words)

creativepro.com, Resources for Creative Professionals All fonts are expertly crafted, with hinting and extensive kern pairs. Hinting is applied to each letter for better screen resolution and an extended kerning table is built into each font. If there is a resource that you think should be added to this list, email us at: fontnews@creativepro.com. www.creativepro.com /eservices/fonts/5.html   (3557 words)

TTF_EDIT Users Guide It does not allow you to combine glyphs from several fonts into a new font, since this requires an impossible integration of the hinting instructions and other compiled aspects of the contributing fonts. You can convert TrueType fonts between the so-called Microsoft, Apple, and Macintosh variants of the TrueType format, since these variations are simply configurations of encoding and naming tables (however, if the Macintosh font doesn't contain the full set of Windows glyphs with the proper names, the Windows version will be incomplete). Specifying a value for i in excess of the allowed range will result in an error message and the expected font object will not be pushed on the stack. www.truetex.com /ttf_edit.htm   (12680 words)

creativepro.com - dot-font: Free Fonts for All? It could also (though I haven't heard of anyone doing this) contain the same basic font in both PostScript format for printing on paper and TrueType format for rendering on screen -- given that the one place where TrueType really shines is in hinting for the screen. By virtue of its huge character set, a single OpenType font could contain not only Cyrillic and Greek versions of the same font but compatible kanji and devanagiri fonts, if someone went to the considerable trouble of designing such a super-family. www.creativepro.com /story/feature/8545.html   (12680 words)

tt2.txt However, if the typographer hinting the font made all, or most, of the characters take up extra space on the line, the words might start to run together since there are only a finite number of pixels between each word. Because the font rasterizers were originally designed to exist only within the printer, there was no way to communicate the width of each character back to the application in the host computer. One of the great typographic strengths of TrueType that cannot be matched by other font scaling solutions is its ability to perform what is known as non-linear scaling. members.aol.com /willadams/tt2.txt   (12680 words)

Typography Another result of Apple’s decision to publish the complete specifications of its outline font system is that we can expect to see one or more font editors enter the market that will allow the artist to completely specify the hinting required for the best possible quality at small point sizes. Apple’s font descriptions, using quadratic splines, are designed to be simple enough that it is reasonable to use them for interactive displays such as the Macintosh itself; the original Postscript model (which uses Bezier curves - a more complex equation form) is oriented towards printing engines. Apple’s stated goals for System 7.0 required that the entire internal design approach for these drivers be changed. www.mactech.com:16080 /articles/mactech/Vol.05/05.10/Typography   (2715 words)

Business Encyclopedia In particular, Apple Computer has patented some of the hinting algorithms for TrueType, requiring open source alternatives such as FreeType to use different algorithms. In digital fonts, the image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and curves enclosing space (an outline font, also called "vector font"). In typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of character designs, which usually comprises an alphabet of letters, a set of numerals and a set of punctuation marks. www.bizencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Fonts   (2715 words)

Mailgate: comp.fonts: Re: Apple Garamond from www.dafont.com I found an "American Garamond" TTF file with these copyright notes, and it proved to be a ripoff font with too many nodes on the outlines and bad hinting (look at the "u" on screen). When you need compatibility with XXXX, the convenience of oldstyle figures in the "normal" font, not the expert set, ligatures, Greek and Cyrillic characters in proper Unicode encoding, eight or twelve different weights and so on you're better off with those "various resellers". > :-) You're definitely a freeware candidate ;-) > So anybody could get the "original sources" of Garamond, scan them and > use/sell/give away the resulting font? mailgate.supereva.it /comp/comp.fonts/msg18673.html   (2715 words)

Coding Horror: Consolas and ClearType That's probably because it is part of the first font family designed from scratch with ClearType hinting in mind. Now, before you write me off as a font hatin' luddite, let me point out that Rick Strahl has almost exactly the same problem with Consolas, ClearType, and programming fonts that I do. However, I prefer not to use font smoothing on my programming fonts. www.codinghorror.com /blog/archives/000356.html   (1153 words)

Steve Matteson During the 13 years at Monotype (now Agfa Monotype) Steve was able to establish himself as a type designer in tune with the most current font technologies. He produced fonts for the Monotype library (such as Goudy Ornate and Gill Floriated Capitals) and directed extensive branding projects such as Agilent Technology's corporate sans serif and Microsoft's new corporate font family 'Segoe'. This technology proved to be the perfect training ground for developing TrueType fonts and in 1990 he began work at Monotype to create the Windows core TrueType fonts: Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New. www.ascendercorp.com /stevepage.html   (1153 words)

Microsoft Typography - News archive Magpie’s future technical font production will include OpenType support and specific hinting for electronic books and Microsoft’s ClearType. Magpie was designed as a book typeface and also planned as an OpenType font that focuses on the latest electronic book technology. ATypI Leipzig attendees were treated to the inclusion of a printed specimen booklet showing Vincent Connare's new typeface Magpie. www.microsoft.com /typography/links/News.aspx?NID=1575   (161 words)

Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : P PostScript clone A clone of Adobe PostScript, some of which do not handle imaging, fonts and hinting compatibly. PostScript font A font format which is designed to work directly with PostScript. Clones are made by Harlequin, Hyphen, Phoenix, Pipeline Associates, and others. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/p.htm   (161 words)

Is Beauty Only Pixel Deep?, Part 1 Linux Journal Part of the problem is bad hinting and bad rendering. Note that this is only part of the file that describes the font "catalogue". I was amazed at how much better the existing fonts on my system looked when I switched over to using Xft. www.linuxjournal.com /article.php?sid=6107&mode=&order=0   (161 words)

Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : H However, once a font character's outline is cached, the hinting process has already taken place and never needs to be repeated unless the cache is distroyed. With some typefaces, any combination below 8000 may require hinting. Ideographs which remain from the consolidation process must be encoded individually. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/h.htm   (161 words)

Fontlab 4.6 TrueType, Type 1 and Unicode Font Editor - the professional's font editor - native TrueType & Type 1 glyph editing, hinting, kerning, etc (downloadable version with manual in PDF format). - TrueType & Type 1 Hinting - Add hints manually or automatically for beautiful screen and low-res fonts. Fontlab 4.6 TrueType, Type 1 and Unicode Font Editor www.paratype.com /softstore/fontlab/fontlab.asp   (161 words)

Ekushey Unicode Based Free OpenType Bangla Fonts We are still looking for someone to help with kerning and hinting, so that the fonts will look good even at very small point of size. The font project is started with the hard work of Solaiman Karim, who started work on them in 2002, and was supported by the advice from Omi Azad. You should also turn on the 'Smooth edges of screen fonts' option in the Desktop Properties settings, which improves the legibility of the fonts considerably. www.ekushey.org /projects/otf_bangla_fonts   (424 words)

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