[Indic-computing-users] Fwd: [OpenType] Adobe ships more OpenType fonts

[G K. <kar...@fr...>]

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From: Thomas Phinney <tph...@ad...>
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Subject: [OpenType]  Adobe ships more OpenType fonts
Date: 11/4/02 12:12:06

Friday night, Adobe shipped another large set of OpenType fonts (USA/Canada 
only; European web sales will start in a week or two).

This set consists of about 400 fonts. Many of them have Expert sets and 
other supplemental fonts being merged into their base fonts, with the 
OpenType layout features as dictated by the particular character set 
involved. These start to look a lot like Adobe's "Pro" fonts, except for 
the lack of extended language support.

If you haven't looked at fonts on the Adobe Web site in the last month or 
so, you may not have noticed that for every font package there is a listing 
of what features are supported by the fonts in that package. This includes 
a clear distinction between what features are in all the fonts, and which 
are supported by only some of the fonts in the package.

For example, for Centaur (http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1312.jhtml) 
you can see that all the fonts contain ligatures, oldstyle figures, 
proportional lining figures, fractions, superscript and subscript. However, 
only some of them have swashes and small caps.

At this point, Adobe has converted over 90% of its type library to 
OpenType. Still to come are a handful of Adobe Originals that are receiving 
more careful attention, and pi/symbol fonts.

As always, I am very pleased to be a part of this team, which has done a 
superb job of making such a


Thomas W. Phinney
Program Mgr., Western Language Fonts
Adobe Systems

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