It's not in the spec as such, but Adobe's document on naming arbitrary instances addresses some of this. The names for arbitrary instances would be clearly different from named instances, because the… (View Post)
Ben, Short answer: probably not. Sorry! Long answer: CFF and Type 1 fonts go through a series of three different rasterizers, each with its own model for which pixels get turned on. Each rasterizer … (View Post)
Re Adam's comment that Adobe could've supported Apple's AAT tables (GX at the time): There were various differences between GX and OpenType, but the real differentiator as far as Adobe was concerned … (View Post)
Adobe's first batch of OpenType fonts was a mix of heavily reworked fonts, some other families in which we mostly just integrated supplemental fonts, and one new family (Michael Harvey's Moonglow). M… (View Post)