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Font Formats: Metafont, TrueType, Opentype, PostScript Fonts, Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format, Apple Advanced Typography

Font Formats: Metafont, TrueType, Opentype, PostScript Fonts, Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format, Apple Advanced Typography


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Metafont, TrueType, OpenType, PostScript fonts, Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format, Apple Advanced Typography, OpenType feature tag list, TeX font metric, Web Open Font Format, FontForge, Multiple master fonts, GNU Unifont, Embedded OpenType, Graphite, Pkfix, TrueDoc, F3, Intellifont, Bitstream Speedo Fonts, Photofont, Server Normal Format, Odttf, Datafork TrueType, Portable Compiled Format, Fdb. Excerpt: OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior. OpenType is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. The specification germinated at Microsoft, with Adobe Systems also contributing by the time of the public announcement in 1996. The specification continues to be developed actively and is presently migrating to an open format. Because of wide availability and typographic flexibility, including provisions for handling the diverse behaviors of all the world's writing systems, OpenType fonts are used commonly today on the major computer platforms. OpenType's origins date to Microsoft's attempt to license Apple's advanced typography technology GX Typography in the early 1990s. Those negotiations failed, motivating Microsoft to forge ahead with its own technology, dubbed "TrueType Open" in 1994. Adobe joined Microsoft in those efforts in 1996, adding support for the glyph outline technology used in its Type 1 fonts. These efforts were intended by Microsoft and Adobe to supersede both Apple's TrueType and Adobe's Type 1 ("PostScript") font formats. Needing a more expressive font format to handle fine typography and the complex behavior of many of the world's writing systems, the two companies combined the underlying technologies of both formats and added new...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155553368
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155553365
  • Publisher Date: 04 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Metafont, TrueType, Opentype, PostScript Fonts, Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format, Apple Advanced Typography
  • Width: 189 mm


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