Questions

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?

hiya all, is it possible to do feature fina { sub n t by n_t.end; } fina; it doesnt work for me. Any suggestions. Thanks in advance. j

I have written a book in MS Word 2000 and I converted it in a PDF file with AR 5.0 Then I tried to print it out as a book. I rotated the pages and included two A4 pages in one so that an A4 sheet to have 4 pages on both sides. In order to do this trick, I rotated the horizontal text page to vertical position on the left side for printing out the page 1 and on the right side for printing out the page 2. This must be done in order to have the 4 pages printed out in a sequence and in an A4 sheet. The procedure is as follows: First, I print out the page one (1) while having my PDF text page rotated vertically on the left side and the printing out is successful. Then I rotate again the page vertically to face on the right side to print out the page two (2) in the same sheet. Here is where the problem begins. The page 1 is printed out well BUT its top/bottom margin is different than the page 2, which is printed in a lower position on the A4 sheet. The margins all around the page look perfe

Read and others, I have some minor suggestions regarding the MakeOTF user interface. First of all, I only fairly recently noticed that the "fontinfo" syntax basically is an extended version of the ".inf" file which is an undocumented file, supplemental to Type 1 fonts. This means that, for very basic conversions, once could use the .inf file as generated by other applications. My suggestion: when the user chooses an input font file, e.g. d:\temp\MyFont.pfb, MakeOTF automatically look for d:\temp\MyFont.inf and, if found, automatically put it as "Font info file". Similarly, MakeOTF should look for d:\temp\MyFont.fea and, if found, automatically put it as "Feature file". When input file is selected, MakeOTF should automatically put d:\temp\MyFont-PostScriptName.otf as output file. Finally, there should be an option "automatically save log file" that, if active, automatically would save the log into d:\temp\MyFont.log. With this set up, in a simple conversion case, the user would on

I'm trying to make an OTF font using FDK (1.5 for Windows). However, MakeOTF lists the contents of my PFA file and then stops. No warning, no message, no OTF created. The source files for the font are placed at http://www.twardoch.com/tmp/otf/sans021212f_fdk.zip Could you please kindly take a look into it? For me, it seems to be a perfectly valid font. Best regards, Adam

Dear AFDKO developers, is it possible to draft a list of lookups outside of the context of feature definitions (just like you do with glyph classes) and only include references to the lookups within the feature definitions? Something like the code below. I'd like to use FDK rather than VOLT to build my font but would like to have precise control over the ordering of the lookups. Currently, only VOLT gives me this ability: I build my lookups separately and assign them to features later. If this is not possible currently, please count this as a feature request for AFDKO. Adam -- Example -- lookup liga_with_i { sub f f i by ffi; sub f i by fi; } liga_with_i; lookup liga_no_i { sub f f l by ffl; sub f f by ff; sub f l by fl; } liga_no_i; feature liga { script latn; language dflt; lookup liga_with_i; lookup liga_no_i; language TRK exclude_dflt; lookup liga_no_i; } liga;

I have a lot of OpenType fonts (.otf) that I need to use with Ghostscript. I tried putting them in the fontmap file the way I do for other fonts (.pfb for example), but Ghostscript gives me an error when it tries to load the font. Is OpenType supported by Ghostscript? If so, how do I get them to work? If not, can I convert the fonts to .pfb or something that is supported, and how? I'm using Windows 2000 and Ghostscript version 7.00. - Dave

I'm looking for help with the installation on newer OSX. My 17" PF Jaguar IMac has python already installed, but it seems the FDK FinishInstall.py instructions are not up to date? (They seem written for OS9 or older OSX versions) I must confess I'm a UNIX newbie, but I can navigate the teminal window, enter python, even run .py scripts!? but I encounter endless "can't find the file" errors. If anyone has the patience to walk me through the basics of installing on a fresh new Jaguar Mac, I'd be forever grateful. -andy

Is the OTF File Typer tool available for download somewhere? I think it would be a great idea if you set up a separate download for it. Just put it in http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/otfdk/downloads/ or so. Adam

Hello, I'm new here so please forgive me if this is an often asked question (i did search first). It's just that I'm just a little sick of constantly using the same fonts (six variations) on my web pages. Let alone seeing them on everyone elses. It seems to me that during the past six years most new applications must have quietly delivered a number of opentype fonts to their users pc's/mac's/unix boxes. On that basis it would appear that the six oft-quoted variations should now have been expanded significantly (according to my own font folder to about fifteen, including e.g. trebuchet, century gothic ). Does anyone know of anywhere (something like a chart would be nice) where these variations are documented (with the different platform font names) with an approximate idea of the percentage likelihood of whether users will be able to see the intended font. (Although embedding fonts is of course an option, because it substantially adds byte size to page download times, it still see

Hello, what kind of things I have to setup to create an symbol font with MakeOTF? (fontinfo file, OS2 setings?)

Hello FDK Developers,<br /><br />After compiling some fonts I got an error code don`t know to handle<br />right. Some glyphs don`t be encoded in unicode.<br /><br />If I change the GlyphOrderAndAliasDB and assign the glyphs direct to a<br />specific unicode value everything works well. But it should work without<br />such a workflow.<br /><br />MakeOTF reports error codes like this one:<br /><br />makeotflib [WARNING] <FontName> glyph <yen.titling> not encoded in<br />Unicode cmap: no space left in End User subarea<br /><br /><br />Andreas

Don't know if this is the right forum to post. I wonder if Adobe will ever release a multilangual "Pro" version of their Futura font as they did with the absolutely beautiful Myriad Pro?

Hello OpenType Developers, How do you set up the style of a font design existing only as Bold version like IMPACT from MS? Should I set the style to NORMAL/REGULAR (400) or should I set it up to BOLD (700) even if no normal or regular design is applicable or will be designed in the future. MS goes the way and set the font to REGULAR. Andreas

When will the URLs for OpenType specification and the Adobe Glyph List be corrected. Thank you. Nigel

ATSUI (Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging) is a Mac OS X's API for rendering Unicode text. Checking the "Inside Mac OS X" documentation on this API, I saw that it offers lots of system-level support for fonts that includes precisely the kind of features found in OpeType fonts (although the document never mentions OT fonts explicitly). One can see an implementation of ATSUI in TextEdit, the basic text editing application in the new Mac OS, as long as one selects one of the ATSUI-featured ".dfonts" that come preinstalled, like Zapfino. I tried Warnock Pro OT on this editor and found that nothing happened when I requested a ligature or some other feature. My question is: Does anyone knows if there is any implemented interaction between ATSUI and OpenType, as it were logically expected since the two technologies address similar issues to a great extent? As I see it, this would make somewhat easier to give support for OT features in Carbon or Cocoa apps. Thanks. JL

Hello; does there any program that Convert a Bitmap Font to Outline?? thanks

Hi Guys, I am new to this forum (and new to using OTFs). I am trying to use an Alternate Latin Capital set of characters to the Bickham font I donwloaded in MS Word, but canot seem to enable this in my word doc? Can someone please advise how/if this can be done? Thanks, Dennis

I am trying convert a ttf file to otf but I keep getting the following error Running txlib... txlib: --- C:\crystal\Crysb___.ttf txlib: (ttr) cmap: invalid idRangeOffset in segment[23] (fixing) txlib: (t1w) multiple glyphs with the same encoding txlib: fatal error I can run the edit table command and it fixes the issue but when I go back and rerun the make command it fails with the same error.