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Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
If anyone from Microsoft is reading this: copy and paste the “font section” of the PowerPoint source code into Bing Chat, then type “add OpenType feature support” then copy and paste the result back …6 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
@"John Butler" Thanks a lot for you help. I much appreciate it. I do all this not because I like PowerPoint. It's because font customers like using PowerPoint. And often they say think…2 -
PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
Hi Folks, I am sick of PowerPoints ignorance related to OpenType feature eg. Kerning. If you do the same, I am more than thankful when you're willing to help and vote for OpenType feature suppor…4 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
It's probably time to reverse the agglutinative naming distinctions between “Pro” and non-Pro. Pay full price for simply Zapfaroni, pay bargain price for Zapfaroni Lite or Zapfaroni Minus or Zap…1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
The longer this thread gets the more I think that Jonathan Hoefler saw this coming and sold at just the right time.2 -
Re: Where do I put the extra characters?
I agree with @PabloImpallari on this in the sense that I don't use PUA. At the same time, I don't have much hope that, by doing so, app makers will be incentivized to add OT feature support…2 -
Re: Where do I put the extra characters?
I produce my fonts according to the specs. If the user can't use it in a specific app and ask me about it, I told them that they should complain to the app developers to fix the buggy app to sup…4 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
To borrow a metaphor from that very excellent Centre for Human Technology presentation, this seems a bit like declaring oneself a nuclear free zone.5 -
Re: Where do I put the extra characters?
Further to what Thomas wrote, I only use PUA encodings for variant glyphs if a client specifically requests, and then only after we have talked through the pros and cons. Typically, the only clients …3 -
Re: Where do I put the extra characters?
Typically, in modern fonts, these are left unencoded. You do not assign Unicode values to them at all. If you feel you must encode them for some reason, give them Private Use Area (PUA) codepoints. h…5
