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Re: Arabic variable fonts in Photoshop
Interesting. I've not seen that before, but as I say, I'm not much of an Illustrator user. There's a mindset I've encountered among some engineers at Adobe that text always consis…4 -
Re: Are device metrics tables still required?
VDMX is slightly different from the other cached device metrics tables in that it is sometimes used to actually delta the vertical ppem metric space, i.e. to set the available pixel body height to be…3 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
I don't at all insist that an italic needs to be cursive, although that's certainly a) valid and b) historically the source of italic. The point to me is that italic is a secondary style — …4 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
Tom, In Type 1 days, some fonts that used the PostScript slant operator for italics. I remember when Linotype sent me the Type 1 Helvetica fonts as source materials for Linotype Helvetica (later Helv…4 -
Re: Could we hack into designing a Persian/Arabic braille font?
As Kent notes, directionality is a property of Unicode characters. All Arabic script letters have strong RTL directionality, which means that layout engines will arrange those characters from right-t…3
