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Re: Kerning when making a font
It's a little confusing with FL. Its kerning editor was designed back when the kern table was all there was. When the OpenType kern feature became a thing, they added support for that as well, b…2 -
Re: Opentype Registered Features
It is a convenience for working in FontLab only. Old style kern tables do not support classes. The classes are flattened into individual character pairs when generating the font. Only the OpenType ke…1 -
Re: Project Faces by Adobe
Because he could and because he's Frank. ;) FWIW, Font Chameleon was much more sophisticated. It was possible to create fonts that looked like real fonts, and also do the crazy slider thing. It …2 -
Re: Strange rendering of one letter in on-line PDF reader
That's a known thing. It happens in Acrobat when type has been converted to outlines. Rectangular glyphs get heavier. It's a side effect of a rendering trick designed to boost the visibilit…1 -
Re: Mysterious extension changes
Chris, that's not quite right. A font suitcase is really just a file. In the original Mac file system, files could have two different components or "forks", a data fork and a resource …4
