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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Definitely have to be a very specific type of nerd to be excited about this, but I did happen to find Fontographer 4 on eBay for a reasonable price. Just arrived this afternoon, and seems to run just…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
That is pretty wonderful. I actually worked briefly when I was in a typesetting bureau composing pages on that SE 30!1 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
The only reason the old fi and fl ligatures would show a notdef, is if they are not present in the font. BUT this code only functions if you do include glyphs for the hard-coded ligatures in your fo…2 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
Even if your ligatures are just the two characters set side by side, it doesn't take that much space to include the fi and fl characters. As far as spacing goes, at least in InDesign, if you track a …1 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
This would change the encoding, though. Better to have fi and fl glyphs composed from the letters.1 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
I've always included full character sets in my PDF specimens, even though I know the risks. I believe the whole point of these specimens is to show people what they will be getting when they license …4 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
In practice it's not always easy to extract embedded fonts. Tried it with the character tables of Unicode for the purposes of machine learning. They reduce the fonts to the minimum needed. Some embed…1 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
I see no reason to make the PDF easily editable unless there might be a need for the end user to edit the file. There's really no reason to embed the entire character set of a font in the document w…3 -
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
