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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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    _hawaii_dream_
    Participant
    February 26, 2004
    Can fonts in Font Folio opentype edition be imported and used in microsoft word and powerpoint programs?
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    Neil_Keller
    Known Participant
    January 29, 2004
    From Adobe's description of the package, http://www.adobe.com/products/fontfolio/pdfs/datasheet.pdf:

    Contents:

    More than 2,200 typefaces from the Adobe Type Library in OpenType format;
    OpenType User Guide in Adobe PDF;
    Typography primer in Adobe PDF;
    Adobe Type Reference Guide

    No mention of ATM Deluxe or Light; no mention of ATR.

    Neil
    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
    Legend
    January 29, 2004
    I will confirm that the FontFolio OpenType Edition does not include Adobe Type Manager (either platform) or Adobe Type Reunion (a MacOS 9 and earlier-only product).

    - Dov
    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    January 29, 2004
    ATM Deluxe is not compatible with OS X, nor is anything else needed for font rendering in OS X. OS X also comes with FontBook, though many pros prefer to use a different font management utility like Font Agent Pro, Font Reserve or Suitcase.

    I have no clue about Windows.
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    _Jason_La_
    Participant
    January 29, 2004
    One more question, guys. Is ATM Deluxe included with Font Folio OT Edition? Is it even needed if you're running Win2k, WinXP, or OS X?
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    Neil_Keller
    Known Participant
    January 28, 2004
    The unfortunate part about using "LT" to represent Linotype is that traditionally, LT has meant "Light" [weight].

    Neil
    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
    Legend
    January 28, 2004
    ... or "Less Tar" as opposed to "MT" for "More Taste" or "MonoType" ...

    - Dov (the non-smoker)
    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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    _Jason_La_
    Participant
    January 28, 2004
    I was looking through a friend's copy of Font Folio OT and I noticed that Univers, a font that I've grown to like, was present, but it had a different name. Instead of being plain old Univers, it was Univers LT Std.

    Can anyone explain to me what thd difference is? Thanks.
    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
    Legend
    January 28, 2004
    There are two differences in this case.

    An explicit decision was made by Adobe not to name the OpenType equivalent to the existing Type 1 fonts with the same name. The mian reason is that there are in some cases subtle design and metric changes as well as the possibility that the operating system's font services might interpret OpenType font metrics a bit differently than Type 1 fonts. We didn't want a situation in which a user switching from a Type 1 font to an OpenType font simply by switch fonts with the exact same name could yield document reflow. Users can phase in an OpenType font while still continuing use of the old Type 1 font version.

    Adobe OpenType fonts are labelled either as "Pro" or "Std". The "Pro" fonts have much larger character sets including possible additional alphabets, extended ligatures, swash characters, small caps, old style numerals, symbols, dingbats, and/or other alternative characters. The "Std" fonts typically have a much small character complement, i.e. Western Latin plus a few characters, similar to the Type 1 font version although usually adding a Euro character (that character has become more valuable of late compared to the Dollar character!)

    The "LT" in the font name designates that the font is part of the "LinoType" library.

    - Dov
    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 2, 2003
    Cristian: Only a few Adobe type families have the same codepage and language coverage of MS's WGL4 character set. These include Myriad Pro, Minion Pro and Warnock Pro. However, all Adobe's fonts with the Pro designation cover at least codepages 1250 (Eastern Europe), 1252 (Latin 1), 1254 (Turkish) and 1257 (Baltic).

    Klaus: Actually, some of our royalties have minimum payments, and they don't go down when it's one license instead of twenty.

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    _KlausNordby_
    Participant
    November 1, 2003
    I'm just me. I sure cannot afford the 5,000 bucks for 10 licenses, nor do I or any other single-person company _need_ alll those 10 licenses. When you buy one font, you get 5 licences - that's quite ample for us single-person operations. So why not release a "midget" CD with 3-4 licences for, say, 2,500? That I could perhaps justify. And I doubt Adobe would lose any money on that offer, either.
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    _Cristian_Secara_
    Participant
    November 1, 2003
    The fonts included in the Font Folio OT Ed. do cover at least the WGL4 codepage range ?

    Thanks,
    Cristi
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    Thomas PhinneyAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 2, 2003
    I can't speak to other products, but although you can't get Adobe fonts directly from Adobe, our authorized reseller Veer sells worldwide, with direct download of your licensed fonts.

    http://www.veer.com/products/type/adt/

    They don't seem to have Type Basics OpenType Edition up yet. This should be fixed within a few weeks.

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