Reminder: Adobe type store is still a mess

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September 14, 2008
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Just a friendly reminder. Nothing has happened there since this last post in December, 2007: <blockquote> <a href="/webx?14@@.3c0574d0/1">Ramón G Castañeda, "Hypatia Italic Fonts Query" #2, 1 Dec 2007 12:54 am</a> the Adobe type store site is an ungodly mess when displaying foreign characters. Here's what happens when I type áéíóú äöü Maß Fluß Ññ Á c <a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=104A0CT80hdyDND53Tokr1ClefLC" /></a> <img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/104A0CT80hdyDND53Tokr1ClefLC_thumb.jpg" border="0" /></blockquote>

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MiguelSousa

Community Manager

I'm pleased to report that this issue has been fixed.

Tai_Lao

Inspiring

Thank you, Miguel.

Tai_Lao

Inspiring

One year later, and the mess at the Adobe Type Store remains an embarrassing mess, as described in the original post.

EDIT: Actually, this has been discussed since at least December of 2007.

MiguelSousa

Community Manager

Yes, definitely embarrassing. I've logged a new bug, in case the old one got lost, and I'll be following it up.

I'll post more news as soon as I have them, hopefully less than a year from now.

Thanks.

Ramón G CastañedaAuthor

Inspiring

John Nack's blog says relief is coming re Flash. :)

Ramón G CastañedaAuthor

Inspiring

>Flash effectively turns all images with an embedded color profile into untagged files

Here's a thread discussing this, which includes a link to a much longer thread on the Adobe Photoshop Macintosh forum:

Ann Shelbourne, "Beware of using Adobe Web Galleries" #7, 11 Sep 2008 12:14 pm

Ramón G CastañedaAuthor

Inspiring

Then Adobe might consider acquiring my fonts.com for the preview technology, the way they acquired Macromedia just for Flash. :D

(Did you know that Flash effectively turns all images with an embedded color profile into untagged files? :( )

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Thomas Phinney

Inspiring

This isn't really a bureaucracy problem. The person who did the online preview software isn't at Adobe any more, and nobody else has had to do more than very minor maintenance on it since....

Cheers,

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Ramón G CastañedaAuthor

Inspiring

It's sad to see how unresponsive the Adobe bureaucracy has become on so many levels. I can only imagine how frustrated Adobe staff is. You have my full sympathy, T.

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Neil_Keller

Known Participant

Well, no information is better than wrong information. But perhaps adding a note to the effect that the selected font does (or may) include additional characters.

Neil

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Thomas Phinney

Inspiring

This may not get fixed any time soon, but perhaps we can at least get it to reject non-ASCII characters instead of scrambling them.

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Ramón G CastañedaAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you both, Neil and Thomas.