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Re: Should we tell Adobe how bad the Illustrator UI is for drawing with beziers?
The non-collapsing curve thing makes more sense for type design. You are generally trying to make paths with as few nodes as possible, to keep the file size down and to ensure speedy rasterization. T…2 -
Re: Should we tell Adobe how bad the Illustrator UI is for drawing with beziers?
FWIW, Illustrator's drawing tool was really good in the first few versions (in my opinion). Somewhere around version 9, it started to feel less precise and more fiddly and has gotten gradually w…4 -
Re: Generating font weights in fontlab, Italic v Oblique
I've taken to calling them "Italic" even when it might be technically more correct to use "Oblique" mainly because of UI issues. "Oblique" is such a rarely used des…3 -
Re: Behavior of attached PDFs
It seems weird to me that it works the way it works. If you code a page in simple HTML and include a link to a pdf, the default behavior of most browsers is to display the pdf in the browser window. …3 -
Re: Generating font weights in fontlab, Italic v Oblique
Weights of fonts are determined by eye. There is no standard "regular" or "bold" or any other weight. The OS2 weight numbers don't have any prescribed mathematical relation t…6
