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Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
It could be worse. Think of the people who bought film and digital fonts for proprietary typesetting equipment pre-desktop publishing. Those fonts cost $250 (around $800 in today's dollars) each on t…5 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
It is about that, but also it can help during development. When I was using FontLab, I mostly worked in the Index view since I could rearrange the glyphs in a way that made sense to me, with related …5 -
Re: Small Caps Practice
There is one case where c2sc by itself makes sense, which I had forgotten about in my comment above: When the input text is all caps, such as an acronym or caps used for emphasis within a text. Witho…1 -
Re: Small Caps Practice
I'm unable to recall where I learned it, but my understanding is that c2sc feature is for the purpose of catching the characters not covered in smcp when applying All Small Caps. That's how I've alwa…2 -
Re: We're in trouble now
I would not take the comments of individual members as representing the views some supposed "core" of users. As one of the founding members of TypeDrawers, I disagree with the idea that thi…8