Font Management in Publishing...

What little I can discern from the OP's messages leads me to infer he's referring to Font handling by human operators as opposed to what we understand as software Font Management, i.e. a piece of font-managing software that manages fonts (the font manager) in the sense of activating them and deactivating them either on the fly or manually, the process we know as Font Management.

Thomas,

As English does not appear to be the OP's first language, I should have been more clear about the references to "upgrading" and "conversion". Thanks for popping in.

Neil

Just to clarify: that document Neil links to above is really about what Adobe changed in upgrading its own fonts to OpenType (a process of many person-years of work, not completely automated). It isn't about how to convert your own fonts.

Cheers,

T

thiyagus,

Here is another document that may be helpful if you wish to upgrade your PostScript/Type 1 fonts to OpenType: Type 1 ("PostScript") to OpenType font conversion http://www.adobe.com/type/opentype/T1_to_OTF_FAQ.htm

Neil

thiyagus,
>We going to introduced the centralized font management system. i.e. all application systems are going to accessing the fonts from one location. For this we going to develop font searching tools, font and it's conversion tips etc...

As I said earlier, what you need is to have your fonts installed on your server, and then use a server-level font manager for organization, search and access to them. But you must have licenses for the fonts that allow them to be installed and used this way.

I don't know what you specifically mean by "conversion tips". You really don't want to electronically convert fonts from one format or platform to the other (there are possibly technical as well as legal issues here). If you use OpenType fonts with a site license or multiple seat license, they can be accessed and used by Macs or Windows computers up to the limit of the license.

Neil

thiyagus,
>We going to introduced the centralized font management system. i.e. all application systems are going to accessing the fonts from one location. For this we going to develop font searching tools, font and it's conversion tips etc...

As I said earlier, what you need is to have your fonts installed on your server, and then use a server-level font manager for the rest.

But I don't know what you specifically mean by "conversion tips". You really don't want to convert fonts from one format or platform to the other (there are possibly technical as well as legal issues here). If you use OpenType fonts with a site license or multiple seat license, they can be accessed and used by Macs or Windows computers.

Neil

Well, that's that. :|

Hi Neil,

My actual project title is "Font Management" only. There is no confuse. But i have little bit confused, about what are all the things need to be add for this title. We going to introduced the centralized font management system. i.e. all application systems are going to accessing the fonts from one location. For this we going to develop font searching tools, font and it's conversion tips etc... Now its clear to me. Can you please check it and let me your suggestions. Sorry for late reply. Once again thanks for your help.

Regards
Thiyagu

Ramón,
>I'm sure there's a language barrier here.

I also assumed that from the original post as the phrasing is a bit odd and not terribly clear. But I just don't know how to get the OP to articulate his or her issue succinctly.

Neil

Ramón,
>I'm sure there's a language barrier here.

I also assumed that from the original post as the phrasing is a bit odd and not terribly clear.
But I just don't know how to get the OP to articulate his or her issue succinctly.

Neil