Questions

Hello, I would like to use photoshop's font to put in pictures I sell. I would like to know if the fonts are free if I have bought Photoshop, or if I have to pay even if I have already pay the Photoshop program ? I don't know if the fonts on my PC are free. I thank you very much for the answers, and apologise my poor english : I'm french, and I forgot many words ! ... Vera Bel

I am looking for comprehensive literature on fonts, character sets etc. for cross-platform foreign-language typography. What applications support which technologies, and how to get from one platform to the other without losing encodings, diacritics etc. Any ideas where I can find something more in-depth than on adobe, quark etc. websites?

Dont know if this is a FDK or FontLab question, it depends a little bit on the answer. I try it here; its maybe not OK to discuss FDK related issues in a public forum like the MSN FontLab one. So, what is the exact definition of a hint overlap? Are two touching hints, e.g. a vhint starting at position 30 with a width of 40 and the next vhint starting at position 70, overlapping or not? I cant find anything about this in the T1 spec. The reason Im asking is that FDK and FontLab (at least 4.6.0.0/Win) seems to have different opinions about this. FDKs compiler warns when finding touching hints. The same is true for the hint width checking feature in Compare Family. FontLab however, does not warn for touching hints and it does not insert a hint replacement when applying the auto replace command. /mårten

Attached is the latest version of my article on font formats, for your reference. Cheers, T

The OpenType fonts in Adobe's library (at least the few I've looked at) have the embedding flag set to Print and Preview only. This has the effect of locking any pdf (or other) file and making the document uneditable by any recipient who doesn't own the appropriate fonts. This is separate from whatever security settings apply to the document. This IS the way it's supposed to work. My possibly unanswerable question is: What is the advantage (to Adobe or any other interested party) in making the embedding flags Print and Preview versus Editable (still not installable)? - Herb

When executing MakeOTF from the command line, it sends basic compile info to stdout. Is it possible to catch the same info when using the MakeOTF module from within a script as an imported module? I can't find anything about this in the docs and nothing seems to be returned as far as I can see. /mårten

I recently switched from OS9 to Panther and upgraded to Adobe CS Premier. I would like to use OTFs, but it's really becoming a pain!! I've been using Illustrator, InDesign, Freehand, Photoshop Pagemaker, FileMaker etc. for 15 years and all my old files were done with Postscript fonts. When I open any of these old files, the PS fonts (no loger loaded in Extensis Suitcase) are not recognized and all text blocks in a document must be changed to OTF versions. This is a pain and often very time consuming in large projects using many fonts. Some programs, such as InDesign, offer a font substitution dialog box to select the new OTF fonts as substitutions, but Illustrator, for example, does not. I have a huge map project done in Illustrator that I need to revise for four color process output. I can see that this will be almost a three day job, just changing the fonts out. There's got to be a better way. I don't want to keep duplicate PS and OTF fonts (with all the problems that would entail)

Hello, OpenType Support. I've bought the Minion Condensed Pro font on Jun 06 2002. Order Number: 4591333271329525. The kerning of this font is really bad. I would like to discuss an opportunity of replacement with newer version of a font (if it exists). Or maybe, you can make the kerning better. Please, contact me: kochin@paratype.com

While creating a CFF font which contains the WE as well as the CE character set, it causes problems with most of Adobe programs (Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, Photoshop Elements 2.0) under Mac OS X. Problem: the accented characters get replaced by Helvetica (Photoshop) or Myriad (Illustrator). Only InDesign treats it right. I tested under Mac OS X 10.2 as well as 10.3; no difference. I tested on 'old machines', but fresh machines as well (machines which didn't have the fonts installed before); no difference. All the same problem. Deleting the CE characters solves the problem, but yeah, I want to create a CFF font which contains both character sets. Generating the font in FontLab or FDK doesn't make any difference. So, what's the solution? Sounds like a mystery. Bas

I have noticed that in Adobe OpenType fonts that they have renamed the fi and fl ligatures f_i and f_l with the same unicode FB01 and FB02. In non-Unicode apps like Quark can they recognize the f_i and f_l characters? Nigel

I'm trying to write a script that will automatically copy the new OpenType Fonts to the fonts folder on a Windows 2000 machine with SP 4. The script basically just copies those fonts from a directory to the fonts folder. Do I have to do anything else? After I copy the fonts I can't view them in Microsoft work until I manually open the fonts folder. Is there a way around this. The script would be useless if the user had to manually open the fonts folder.

hallo, I have problem to make ordinals substitution working: sub [one one.small one.osf] s' t by s.superior sub [one one.small one.osf] s t' by t.superior (I have also tried sub [one one.small one.osf] s.superior t' by t.superior in any case I alwas get this result /one /s.superior /t it seems to me that any substitution with the target glyph in the end of the string longer than two glyphs is not working and I cannot find the reason why. but it is working when the target glyph is in the middle. any ideas? thanks a lot for any hint pavel

I read a comment by Thomas Phinney that it was a "Bad Idea to create a new font with the same names info as an existing font in a different format." What if you are going to replace a Type 1 font with OpenType, is that still a "Bad Idea" and why? Nigel

Im using windows XP. Ive been trying to convert some of my fonts created in fontographer to OTF. So far, I have had no success. When I import the .ttf or type one font, it will create a file that windows recognizes as an OTF, (with no errors from makeOTF) but when I click on it it says it is not a valid font file. When I open the file with MS VOLT, there are not characters in it. When I run the font that doesnt work through a troubleshooting program and have it create a proof sheet, everything comes out. Nothing opens it as an OTF font- not ATM, nothing. I have not been using a features file with it, but that didnt seem to effect the sample provided by adobe. I have tried adobe type 1 files that also fail, so I dont think its a fontographer problem. Sorry for such a newbie question. JDooley

im a novice when it comes to font development. i want to convert mac math fonts to pc-compatible fonts. ive been trying to follow the guidelines on how to do it but i cant seem to have an output. dont know how python works and i dont know if my files are correct. i have "PalatBol, PalatBolIta, Palatino, PalatIta and PalatRom" and some other mac math fonts. so how do i put it in features file, etc. and what is "an outline font" mentioned in the overview? i dont see also the window wen i double-click on the makeotf.py (regarding makeotf.py, mentioned and shown on page 2 of the documentation). pls help me as i have a deadline to meet. im pc-based by the way. thank you very much.

Why is the display of OTF glyphs in both InDesignCS and IllustratorCS palettes differ from OTF font to OTF font. For example some fonts start with the "space" character, others start with "exclamation" Then after the asciitilde the order of glyphs vary substantially. Thanks Nigel

Hi, I hame some font problem with Mac OS 9 I can't resolve... I use the Adobe Font Postscript "Univers Condensed" on a printer with Bold attribute and the output is not correct. I don't see any bold charater on the paper. On any software in MacOS9, I type some text with the font "Univers 57 Condensed". When I apply the bold attribute to this text, I see the bold result on the screen. When I print the document to a PostScript printer I don't see any text in bold. I think that the link between these two font are not maked properly in the suitcase. The attributes of these fonts are : ------------------------------------- Plain font : Univers-Condensed Type : Postscript Suitcase : Univers Condensed Version : 001.001 Family : Univers 57 Condensed Foundry : Adobe Systems Font ID : 14876 Screen Font : Univers-Condensed Printer Font : UniveCon ------------------------------------- Bold font : Univers-CondensedBold Type : Postscript Suitcase : Univers Condensed Version : 001.001 Family :

I try programmicaly read OS/2 table. First part of table I read without problems, but with the second there are some problems. For example, I want obtain fsSelection value, and for any font this value equal 32(bold). When I obtain macStyle from HEAD table, all right. But values of macStyle and fsSelection must be identical! In what there can be a problem?

Why in some Adobe fonts are the small caps named A.sc, B.sc ... a.sc, b.sc, and others are listed as Asmall, Bsmall? Which one is correct or what is the difference? Thanks. Nigel

How can I have my OT/CFF fonts appear in the proper place, with the other Roman fonts in Carbon application font menus under Mac OS X? No matter what variations I try to ring on the font information and encoding, the generated font always ends up either grouped with the Central European fonts or at the very end of font menus. The problem is the same whether I generate the OT font with FontLab or use makeotf. I posted this same query in the FontLab MSN forum, and the reply I got back was that this was an Apple problem that Apple still hasn't fixed. Yet I notice that Adobe's fonts don't suffer from this problem. What's the magic?

Sorry this is a little off-topic, but I couldn't see a more appropriate place. I need the afm files for a type 1 font (Bauer Bodoni---pkg 98 in the Adobe font listing). There used to be an ftp site somewhere in the Adobe site where one could download these afm files. Now that address (ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/) gives nothing that I can see. Has it moved? Can anyone tell me where I can get these files? I should note that I bought Bauer Bodoni a few years ago, from Type on call, at a time when these afm files were not automatically included with the font. Now, however, I need them for use in Latex. TIA Adrian Heathcote

Is there a program to dump the content of a cff flavored open type font (similar to raw postscript dump of a Type 1 file)? Nigel

We're planning a book about ancient gravestones in the Sint-Jans Cathedral in Den Bosch Holland. The author confronted me with the following: During the ages, all kinds of abbreviations were used in the engravings. Some of them can be found in the Open Type character-map, some others are less common I'm afraid. A few examples: - a "v", "V" and "y" with a dash above it - superscript "O" with a dash underneath it - a "b", "h" with a dash right through the middle - a "C" upside down etc. What are the options: Is it probably very costly to have these special glyphs added to a font and it would inflict with copyright too I'm afraid. Or is there a simpler solution in connection to InDesign on a Windows-platform?

Hi again, I have another question concerning fina feature. What do you do when you have two different final glyphs for one regular glyph? if replacement is one-to-one, is there any possibility to have a one-to-two (or more) substitution for a final glyph? j

are univers 67 and times available as open type pro fonts covering all euro languages?