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Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
On a more general level, I'd like to recall a basic classification I once proposed that groups into three "levels" what we mean by "OpenType support": 1. Ability to display and pr…2 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
Apple did well from the very beginning with graphics. They supported Béziers, PostScript, and in OS X PDF, transparency, video. But what Microsoft did really well early on, far better than Apple, was…2 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
David, OK, maybe I should have phrased it differently. Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 (1993) and Apple QuickDraw GX (1995) used Unicode. And the Apple engineers did design SFNT around 16-bit Unicode, which…3 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
@"Nick Shinn" : I agree that the Macintosh platform exploded with the print publishing industry, especially in North America, since the mid-1980s. But between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000…3 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
FontLab 4.0 for Windows, released in December 2001, was the first font editor that included OTF reading and writing and OpenType Layout feature editing, thanks to the integrated Adobe FDK library, wh…2
