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Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
In the brief period between the introduction of the Mac and the advent of desktop publishing and apps like PageMaker, I made this Microsoft Multiplan spreadsheet (September 1984) to calculate "m…8 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
When I started adding OT features in the mid-2000s, there were some popular apps, like MS Office and Flash, with poor or nonexistent OT support. So I made "supplemental" fonts where certain…2 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Spec'ing type to run around an irregular shape (photo, art, whatever)—especially when the text had to fill a certain amount of area—was a dark art. Today, the computer can do it interactively as…4 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
You could try Affinity Photo. It has pretty robust OpenType support and is a pretty good alternative to Photoshop (and much less expensive).1 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
It depends on the system. There were digital typesetting systems going back to the early seventies, not super high quality, mainly used at newspapers. I'm not sure how the fonts were distributed…4
