Thomas Phinney
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Re: Re-ordering Font(families)?
These fonts are owned by Monotype, these days. Unfortunately, their current licensing terms do not normally allow for modifications. Of course, people are bound by the terms in effect at the time and… (View Post)2 -
Re: Inferior characters
John’s version is close. Except it was some person or people at Microsoft who were sure they needed 'sinf' to have subscripts on the baseline. Nobody at Adobe at the time (late 90s) had any clue why … (View Post)2 -
Re: FontForge: Is it possible to reorder unicode slots for alternate characters?
In a font, there are two orderings built in: - encoding order (usually Unicode), which of course only applies to encoded glyphs - glyph ID (GID) order, which is the actual order of glyphs in the font… (View Post)1 -
Re: DeltaMachine vs Font Remix Tools + Question about TypeRig.
Yes, TypeRig has been getting updated extensively for FontLab 7, and is being tested/used with the most recent versions of 7. Vassil just needs to update his docs. Although TypeRig does a bunch of co… (View Post)1 -
Re: Hinting and OS X
Yes, Adobe apps use the hinting built into fonts. Adobe has their own rasterizers, used by most of their apps. CoolType is the most common of the Adobe rasterizers, and is used by the major desktop a… (View Post)1