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Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
PowerPoint was part of Microsoft Office, and Persuasion wasn’t. The power of bundled apps killed Persuasion as demand for a standalone presentation app plummeted. (Side note: Corel still makes WordPe…1 -
Re: Font weights not being recognized by Mac OS Ventura
For the most part, no, nobody is specifically out to cripple existing fonts. (With an exception for some vendors dropping support for PostScript Type 1 fonts. But that writing was on the wall for at …1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
The printer font contained the outlines, and the spacing, but neither kerning nor menu name and style linking information. All that was in the (Mac) suitcase file which also contained the bitmaps or …2 -
Re: Where do I put the extra characters?
Typically, in modern fonts, these are left unencoded. You do not assign Unicode values to them at all. If you feel you must encode them for some reason, give them Private Use Area (PUA) codepoints. h…5 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
One thing I have a lot of experience with in my forensic work, is trying to demonstrate whether a given text is set in a known font, or to show the differences between two fonts. I avoid the approac…3
