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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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    _Dominic_Hurley_
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    November 4, 2004
    Have you any references for Bitstream fonts being of lower quality than Adobe's?
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    Neil_Keller
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    November 4, 2004
    My point is that the general level of quality is probably higher with the Adobe Folio than with the Corel bundle.

    Neil
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    _Dominic_Hurley_
    Participating Frequently
    November 3, 2004
    As I recall, the fonts included with Corel products are all drawn from the Bitstream library (or they were when I bought Ventura), and though they are not necessarily my favourite digitisations, I have no complaints with the quality of any of them (bearing in mind Ramón's comments about Bitstream's treatment of Spanish glyphs). They also supplied them in both Type 1 and TT versions.
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    _Odysseus1479_
    Participant
    November 4, 2004
    In article <1dea4840.46@webx.la2eafNXanI>,
    Dominic_Hurley@adobeforums.com wrote:

    > As I recall, the fonts included with Corel products are all drawn from the
    > Bitstream library (or they were when I bought Ventura), and though they are
    > not necessarily my favourite digitisations, I have no complaints with the
    > quality of any of them (bearing in mind Ramón's comments about Bitstream's
    > treatment of Spanish glyphs). They also supplied them in both Type 1 and TT
    > versions.

    There are a few URW and Letraset fonts included with the Corel Graphic
    Suite -- and a couple of Corel's own knockoffs, for backward
    compatibility with old versions of CorelDraw -- but most of them are
    indeed from Bitstream.

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    Odysseus
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    Neil_Keller
    Known Participant
    November 3, 2004
    Gabriel,

    If you wish to play with the pros, you need pro tools. I'm sure some of the fonts that are bundled with the Corel suite are fine, but....

    Neil
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    _Jason_Drabek__WCIS___
    Participating Frequently
    November 3, 2004
    Raphael Freeman - 9:14am Sep 1, 03 PST (#6 of 44)

    I think I would put it differently. I am not suggesting that Adobe gives freelancers the entire collection for less money. However, I would offer a smaller collection to freelancers.

    I would be more than happy to pay $1,000 for such a package....

    what do other people think?

    Ok now I know this has nothing to do with FontFolio but it's another way to get a lot of fonts for a lot less money.

    Buy CorelDraw Suite, there are more fonts in the package than you'll ever need.
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 24, 2004
    Those floating accents are spacing accents, and don't automatically combine with base letters to create accented letters.

    However, quite a few Adobe fonts--all of those that have "Pro" in the name--already have accented letters for central European languages. These should work as expected in InDesign CS and Illustrator CS.

    Regards,

    T
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    _WLand_
    Participant
    September 22, 2004
    Hallo,

    b I have a serious problem for the Central Europe glyphs.

    We have a pubblishing environtment working with file from all over Europe. We have six Macintosh computer all with MacOS X 10.3 installed.
    Before buying the Font Folio OpenType, we buy a font a made a test.
    We bought Helvetica LT Std.

    In the pdf that you can download in the page presenting every single font, you can see a series of accent called "Floating Accent".
    For my understanding a Floating Accent could be combined with whatever letter: am I wrong?

    That's what we need for creating the glyphs for Central Europe, a Floating Accent combined with some other letters.

    There is no way to combine accent and letters in InDesignCS or IllustratorCS.
    It appears a box with a X inside in a pink background.

    I already try to change the keyboard language, but I get the usual result.

    Is there any way to do it?
    Somebody has any news?

    Thank you
    Willie
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 27, 2004
    The only Type 1 fonts on Font Folio OpenType Edition are:
    - fonts Adobe didn't have the rights to convert (about 30 or 40)
    - symbol/pi fonts, which are present in both Type 1 and OpenType

    That handful of Type 1 fonts does not include any Cyrillic fonts. There are quite a few OpenType fonts in the collection that support Cyrillic, however, including Minion, Myriad, Warnock, Excelsior, Helvetica....

    Regards,

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    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    June 26, 2004
    T,

    I had seen those links posted by Alex and I noticed only "Western Fonts" are listed in his directories. Aren't there any Cyrillic fonts in Font Folio T1, for instance?

    I'm just wondering if the listing is complete or nor.
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 26, 2004
    Ooh, I'll have to add that to the main item at the top of this thread.

    T
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