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Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
Theirry is right; people will find ways to pirate your fonts no matter what you do. If they really want the fonts they’ll just use a stolen credit card number to buy them.1 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
Bitmapping the fonts in the PDF makes for a worse sample. At any decent resolution, it also means a bigger PDF. As a user, I find it really irritating. As a type designer, I won’t do it unless requir…1 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
Theoretically, if a font is not yet released, it might be worth the trouble. Once something is out, maybe not.1 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
Some countermeasures are simple and reasonable. A bitmap of sufficient dpi works perfectly well. Enschedé uses 600 dpi bitmap PDFs for all their specimens. There are worse examples to follow.1 -
Re: u+00af and u+02c9
U+00AF is ambiguous in Unicode and can have various forms (overline, spacing macron or even non-spacing overline or non-spacing macron in some legacy encodings), whereas U+02C9 is stricly a spacing m…1 -
Re: u+00af and u+02c9
There are a few characters in Unicode whose ambiguity is the result of legacy encodings and use. The ambiguity is part of the identity of these characters. Another well known one is U+002D, which is …2 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
As an end user of fonts, I'm a fan of ligatures. However, if the "f" and "i" in a font don't overlap at all when they are printed next to one another, I can live without the ligat…1 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
I don't include entire character sets in my pdf samples. I have a graphic showing the the complete set on the website. I tend to password protect opening the pdf but allow viewing and printing.2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Noah, these are preserved in the Emigre collection at Letterform Archive.2 -
Re: u+00af and u+02c9
Either of those options is fine for most users and most situations.1
