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Thomas Phinney
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August 11, 2003
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Font Folio OpenType Edition

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Press Release Source: Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe Announces OpenType Edition of Font Folio
Monday August 11, 8:12 am ET
New Version Offers the Adobe Type Library in Enhanced Cross-Platform Font Format

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2003--Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE - News), the leader in network publishing, today introduced a new version of Adobe® Font Folio(TM) featuring the Adobe Type Library in OpenType® format on one CD-ROM. The Adobe Font Folio (OpenType Edition) product contains more than 2,000 fonts in OpenType format, which allows for richer linguistic support and more advanced typographic control in any print, Web or dynamic media project. Adobe also announced the availability of a new special version with a 10-computer license, making it more affordable for small design shops to access the entire Adobe Type Library.

Adobe and Microsoft Corporation created the OpenType font format to improve cross-platform document portability and simplify font management, by introducing one font file that works on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Creative professionals benefit from extended foreign language support and the inclusion of expert typographic glyphs, such as small caps, old style figures and swashes, in many OpenType fonts.

"The OpenType font format is much more convenient than the old Type 1 or TrueType fonts," said David Blatner, co-author of Real World InDesign, InDesign for QuarkXPress Users and Real World Photoshop. "With Adobe's new Font Folio in OpenType format, I love having large character sets in the same font instead of having to work with a whole array of related font files."

Pricing and Availability

The Adobe Font Folio [OpenType Edition] product is available immediately and will be sold primarily through the Adobe store at www.adobe.com, Adobe retail and licensing channels, and includes a standard 20-computer license for US$8,999. License extensions are also available and Font Folio is included in Adobe's transactional and contractual licensing programs. Upgrade pricing from Font Folio versions 8 or 9 to Font Folio OpenType Edition is US$2,499. Adobe is also releasing a special 10-computer license of Font Folio OpenType Edition for smaller design workplaces that is available for US$4,999. International English versions are available where localized versions are not sold.

Full Press Release:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200308/081103FONTFOLIO.html

Product page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/fontfolio/main.html
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    _Mickyboy_
    Participant
    July 24, 2008
    HELP. I have spent over 4 hours trying to find and buy the Hypatia font family. How frustrating I cant find it any where and even Adobe direct cant help me.

    Can anyone advise me.

    Thanks
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    _Herb_V_B_
    Participating Frequently
    July 24, 2008
    It's available as a (free) registration incentive when you register
    CS3 (Adobe Creative Suite 3).
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    _Mirandas_
    Participant
    February 12, 2008
    Alguien que hable castellano?
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    _Dominic_Hurley_
    Participating Frequently
    October 25, 2006
    > "Adobe's applications DO allow selection of the individually styled fonts." Or something like that.

    No, they don't. At least not as I understand the term. When Mac users talk about not being able to see fonts in Windows, they mean they can't see each and every variant in the font menu as a separate entry. So, Times Bold sits alongside Times Itals and Times Bold Itals in the font menu, and you can get from TNR Bold to Minion Pro Itals with one mouse click. In Adobe apps, you can't do this and you don't see all the variants in the one menu - you have a font family menu and a variant (or style) menu. You have to choose the font family first, then the variant, and you can't get from TNR Bold to Minion Pro Itals with one mouse click.

    Although Adobe apps do style-link all font variants (a great advantage over Windows default limit of four family members), you are still choosing the family, then the style. In this, it's no different from choosing bold, itals, and bold itals in other Windows apps like Word, Ventura, FrameMaker, etc (and my post was referring only to these three variants, not to styles like black, condensed, etc, which may show up as separate entries). So, I stick by my statement that "bold, italic, and bold italic variations don't show up as separate fonts in menus in Windows apps".

    (And Dov's right, we don't know this is the user's problem, but I was just raising a common issue, based on the limited info we had at hand.)
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    _Herb_V_B_
    Participating Frequently
    October 25, 2006
    In Illustrator CS2, I see a list of the fonts, without variations, and
    with each font displayed in the font itself.

    But when I pass the cursor over one of the fonts, I see an additional
    pop-up list containing all of the installed variants. They include not
    only installed bold, italic, and bolditalic, but any other styles,
    including such as "outline", "demi", etc.

    - Herb
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 25, 2006
    Yes - that's the way fonts work on Windows.

    http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2006/05/font_myths_ital.html

    Cheers,

    T
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    _Dominic_Hurley_
    Participating Frequently
    October 24, 2006
    You do realise that bold, italic, and bold italic variations don't show up as separate fonts in menus in Windows apps, don't you? You have to choose the base font, then apply a bold/itals/bold itals style.
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    _Herb_V_B_
    Participating Frequently
    October 25, 2006
    Dov -

    A small amendment to your statement. Instead of saying that they don't
    show up separately in "Windows applications", that should read "in
    Microsoft's and many other Windows products. Adobe's applications DO
    allow selection of the individually styled fonts." Or something like that.

    By the way - I don't know - how do Microsoft's MAC applications (like
    Office/Word) handle it?

    - Herb
    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
    Legend
    October 25, 2006
    I didn't say or even imply that styles show up separately. The poster claimed that the fonts "didn't work" whatever that meant. I did not assume that the poster meant that the styles didn't show up as separate fonts. I would rather the poster clarify the complaint before making any assumptions.

    - Dov
    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
    Legend
    October 24, 2006
    Perhaps you can provide some more information about (1) your computer's configuration (what version of Windows, any type managers, etc.) and (2) the applications that you are having problems using with the typefaces you mention.

    We know of no problems using the OpenType versions of any of the Helvetica or Times fonts that are part of the Adobe Font Folio with either Adobe applications or typical Windows applications (such as Microsoft Office applications). I personally use these typefaces on my system with such applications on a regular basis without any problems.

    More information please ...

    - Dov
    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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    _Sheryl_Boutin_
    Participant
    October 24, 2006
    We bought the opentype whole collection font folio and it doesn't work on the pc! at least not the helv. bold and italic and times bold and italic and probably many others that I don't have time to test!
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 8, 2006
    I don't have any information to share at this time. Certainly there will be a new version at some point, as there have been various new releases over the last two and a half years.

    Regards,

    T
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    _Susan_Taylor_
    Participant
    March 8, 2006
    When will Adobe release a new version of Opentype Font Folio?
    Susan Taylor
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