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Thomas Phinney
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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

List of all the fonts is here.

More information on compatibility and differences between the OpenType fonts and their Type 1 counterparts is here. Look in the right-hand column for links to the two cross-reference documents, and the font conversion FAQ.
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    Unit_Seven
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    November 17, 2004
    Good point Gabriel - esp if you could find an old version somewhere - I know our company used to use Corel a lot but have now moved toward Adobe so we have 8 or so Corel Licences which are hardly ever used these days, must be others in the same boat who would be willing to sell them.
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    _Jason_Drabek__WCIS___
    Participating Frequently
    November 16, 2004
    I prefer Adobe's OpenType fonts but for someone that can't afford that and is looking for an alternative, go with Corel's Graphic Suite.

    No, you won't get the same thing as in FF but you WILL get a huge variety of fonts for your money.

    I am in no way suggesting that Corel is the better way to go. It's only a suggestion for users like freelancers for example.

    The average freelancer can't afford to pay $ thousands $ for fonts.

    The fonts that come with Corel may not be as good as what you get with FF10 but they are much better than the fonts that come in those $10 CD's you find at your local office supply or computer stores.

    Corel gives you decent fonts at a decent/affordable price.
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    Neil_Keller
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    November 9, 2004
    Thanks for the clarification, Thomas.

    Neil
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 8, 2004
    Completely understandable, Neil: there's no question that "back when" Corel had some really cruddy badly-made fonts. But these days they mostly license stuff that's decent quality.

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    _Dominic_Hurley_
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    November 4, 2004
    Ramon, I definitely filed away that bit of information in my brain in the event I need to set Spanish in the future. (Of course, it meant I had to delete a treasured childhood memory to make room for it, but so be it ...)
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    Neil_Keller
    Known Participant
    November 4, 2004
    Sorry, if I sounded a bit misleading. I was remembering historically about some of Corel's fonts' quality issues.

    Neil
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 4, 2004
    As far as I know, none of the Corel-bundled fonts are OpenType, although the supplying foundries have made quite a few OpenType fonts recently. If you want lots of OpenType fonts in one package, with quite a few having lots of typographic features, Adobe Font Folio is the thing to get (or Type Classics for Learning if you're a student on a budget).

    Bitstream has recently come out with some nice OpenType versions of some of their more popular original designs, and have more in the works. URW++ of course has a couple of thousand OpenType fonts available--but so far none of them have added typographic features, and instead concentrate on language support (CE, and sometimes Greek and Cyrillic).

    Regards,

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    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    November 4, 2004
    Dominic,

    I'm impressed that you remember the issue with the opening exclamation point (¡) and question mark (¿) in Bitstream fonts. :)
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    _Raphael_Freeman_
    Participating Frequently
    November 4, 2004
    But are any of these fonts OpenType? Do any of Corel's fonts have any of the OpenType features? I think that was the whole point of this discussion.
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 4, 2004
    Bitstream and URW both produce decent quality fonts, including those bundled with CorelDraw. I can't say how they stack up against Adobe for technical quality. The actual Corel-produced fonts are of pretty mediocre quality, but they don't bundle very many of those any more.

    Regards,

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    _Herb_V_B_
    Participating Frequently
    November 4, 2004
    Thomas_Phinney@adobeforums.com wrote:

    > Bitstream and URW both produce decent quality fonts, including those
    > bundled with CorelDraw. I can't say how they stack up against Adobe
    > for technical quality. The actual Corel-produced fonts are of pretty
    > mediocre quality, but they don't bundle very many of those any more.

    As I recall, most of the Corel-produced truetype fonts were introduced
    with version 3 and were conversions from their original .wfn format
    fonts that were supplied with Corel Version 1. Version 1.1 included
    "wfnboss", a utility for converting between Type 1 (PFB/AFM pairs) and
    .wfn, converting between .wfn and Z-soft OTL, and conversion to .wfn
    from a variety of other proprietary formats (Agfa .FF; Bitstream
    Fontware, .TDF, BCO. & .BEZ; .PFA; and Digifont .DFI)

    - Herb
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