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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.274 ! ! The other way to solve the font technology problem is to implement ! your own. This is the route chosen by Altsys, Bitstream, ! Kingsley/ATF, and various other vendors. Some of the technologies ! used by these companies have been listed and compared. All these ! vendors use Type 3 unencrypted fonts, but the similarities end there. ! The technologies implemented from one company to the next vary in ! source of artwork, precision of digitization, availability and types ! of hints, Optical Scaling, storage requirements, and much more. ! ! Apple Royal (`sfnt') format and System 7 ! ! Apple's new System 7.0 will support a new format of outline font that ! will allow high-quality characters of any size to be displayed on the ! screen. The new format (`sfnt') stores font outlines as B-spline ! curves along with programmed resolution hints. B-spline curves are ! faster to compute and easier to manipulate than the Bezier curves ! used in PostScript. Adobe is not going to support Apple's new format by converting the Adobe/Linotype library to B-spline format. There are two reasons for *************** *** 300,304 **** too big a market to simply turn away from. Therefore, Adobe will provide its Font Manager to display its own fonts on the Mac screen. ! Apple ships Adobe's ATM for this purpose. *-[Unquote]---------------------------------------------------------* --- 395,448 ---- too big a market to simply turn away from. Therefore, Adobe will provide its Font Manager to display its own fonts on the Mac screen. ! ! K/A will provide its entire library in Apple's B-spline format in ! addition to various PostScript formats. Users will be able to pick ! whatever format is most convenient. ! ! The Adobe font license ! ! When you license Adobe's font technology you get a `black box' that ! takes your font data in a prescribed format and turns it into Adobe's ! format with hints (suitable for use by the Type 1 BuildChar routine) ! and encrypted fonts for use by the eexec operator. No capability is ! provided to create or edit font data or screen fonts. ! ! The Kingsley/ATF font license ! ! When you license Kingsley/ATF's font technology you get a complete ! state-of-the-art font digitization system (ATF Type Designer I*), ! with output capabilities for supporting many operating systems and ! formats, resolution hinting, Optical Scaling, kerning editor, ! automatic screen font generation, and screen font editor. Included is ! a sophisticated end-user font utility. You also receive assistance in ! converting your current font data into the ATF format for editing. ! ! The Altsys font method ! ! Altsys sells a font digitization system called Fontographer without ! further license. The new version supports a limited version of the ! Nimbus-Q hinting system, and includes a kerning editor, output for ! the Macintosh, and a screen font editor. ! ! The FontStudio method ! ! Letraset has purchased the FRed font editor and should be releasing ! it soon. It will be sold without further license. ! ! The URW font method ! ! URW designed the Ikarus system about 15 years ago. Due to the ! normally small size of artwork and the cross-hair pointer used in the ! digitization process, the accuracy of outlines generated with this ! system suffers. This is the same system used to generate the Adobe ! font outlines. They are currently marketing the Nimbus-R hinting ! system. ! ! ATF Type Designer I and Optical Scaling are trademarks of ! Kingsley/ATF Type Corporation. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe ! Systems Incorporated. Apple and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple ! Computer, Inc. Fontographer is a trademark of Altsys Corporation. ! Ikarus and Nimbus-R are trademarks of URW. FontStudio is a trademark ! of Esselte Pendaflex Corporation. *-[Unquote]---------------------------------------------------------* *************** *** 429,435 **** *-[Quote]-----------------------------------------------------------* ! First, the short answer in the USA: Typefaces are not copyrightable; ! bitmapped fonts are not copyrightable, but scalable fonts are ! copyrightable. Authorities for these conclusions follow. Before we get started, let's get some terminology down: --- 573,579 ---- *-[Quote]-----------------------------------------------------------* ! First, the short answer: Typefaces are not copyrightable; bitmapped ! fonts are not copyrightable, but scalable fonts are copyrightable. ! Authorities for these conclusions follow. Before we get started, let's get some terminology down: *************** *** 471,475 **** cognizable combinations of characters. The Committee does not regard the design of typeface, as thus defined, to be a copyrightable ! 'pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work' within the meaning of this bill and the application of the dividing line in section 101." H. R. Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Congress, 2d Session at 55 (1976), reprinted in 1978 --- 615,619 ---- cognizable combinations of characters. The Committee does not regard the design of typeface, as thus defined, to be a copyrightable ! 'pictoral, graphic, or sculptural work' within the meaning of this bill and the application of the dividing line in section 101." H. R. Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Congress, 2d Session at 55 (1976), reprinted in 1978 *************** *** 480,485 **** (1978, C.A. 4, Va.). ! The U.S. Copyright Office holds that a bitmapped font is nothing more than ! a computerized representation of a typeface, and as such is not copyrightable: --- 624,629 ---- (1978, C.A. 4, Va.). ! The Copyright Office holds that a bitmapped font is nothing more than a ! computerized representation of a typeface, and as such is not copyrightable: *************** *** 602,612 **** Bitmap Fonts: ! Bitmap fonts contain bitmaps of fonts in them. This a picture of the ! font at a specific size that has been optimized to look good at that ! size. It cannot be scaled bigger without making it look horrendously ! ugly. On the Macintosh, bitmap fonts also contain the kerning ! information for a font and must be installed with both type 1 and ! type 3 fonts. Their presence also speeds the display of commonly ! used font sizes. 6.2.1. Font Format Extensions --- 746,756 ---- Bitmap Fonts: ! Bitmap fonts contain (surprise) bitmaps of fonts in them. This a ! picture of the font at a specific size that has been optimized to ! look good at that size. It cannot be scaled bigger without making it ! look horrendously ugly. On the Macintosh, bitmap fonts also contain ! the kerning information for a font and must be installed with both ! type 1 and type 3 fonts. Their presence also speeds the display of ! commonly used font sizes. 6.2.1. Font Format Extensions *************** *** 619,623 **** .bez Bezier outline information .chr Borland stroked font file - .fot MS-Windows TrueType format fonts .gf Generic font (the output of TeX's MetaFont program (possibly others?)) .fli Font libraries produced by emTeX fontlib program. Used by emTeX --- 763,766 ---- diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.1b.General-Info oldfaq/FAQ.1b.General-Info *** newfaq/FAQ.1b.General-Info Mon Dec 7 14:08:35 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.1b.General-Info Mon Dec 7 14:02:25 1992 *************** *** 44,53 **** ff fi fl ffi ffl Rp ct st Sh Si Sl SS St (where S=long s) ! [Ed: Another common example is the Computer Modern Roman typeface that ! is provided with TeX. this family of fonts include the ff, fi, fl, ! ffi, and ffl ligatures which TeX automatically uses when it finds ! these letters juxtaposed in the text.] ! While there are a large number number of possible ligatures, generally only the most common ones are actually provided. In part, this is because the presence of too many alternate forms starts reducing --- 44,53 ---- ff fi fl ffi ffl Rp ct st Sh Si Sl SS St (where S=long s) ! [Ed: Perhaps a more common example is the Computer Modern Roman ! typeface that is provided with TeX. this family of fonts include the ! ff, fi, fl, ffi, and ffl ligatures which TeX automatically uses when ! it finds these letters juxtaposed in the text.] ! While there are an infinite number of possible ligatures, generally only the most common ones are actually provided. In part, this is because the presence of too many alternate forms starts reducing *************** *** 58,85 **** Don Hosek offers the following insight into ligatures: ! Ligatures were used in lead type, originally in imitation of ! calligraphic actions (particularly in Greek which retained an ! excessive number of ligatures in printed material as late as the ! 19th century), but as typefaces developed, ligatures were retained ! to improve the appearance of certain letter combinations. In some ! cases, it was used to allow certain letter combinations to be more ! closely spaced (e.g., "To" or "Vo") and were referred to as ! "logotypes". In other cases, the designs of two letters were merged ! to keep the overall spacing of words uniform. Ligatures are provided ! in most contemporary fonts for exactly this reason. ! ! Liam Quim makes the following observations: ! ! The term ligature should only be used to describe joined letters in ! printing, not letters that overlap in manuscripts. ! ! Many (not all) accents came from the practice of using a tilde or ! other mark to represent an omitted letter, so that for example the ! Latin word `Dominus' would be written dns, with a tilde or bar over ! the n. This is an abbreviation, not a ligature. ! ! Most ligatures vanished during the 15th and 16th Centuries. It was ! simply too much work to use them, and it increased the price of book ! production too much. [Ed: there is no "complete" set of ligatures.] --- 58,71 ---- Don Hosek offers the following insight into ligatures: ! Ligatures were used in lead type, originally in imitation of ! calligraphic actions (particularly in Greek which retained an ! excessive number of ligatures in printed material as late as the 19th ! century), but as typefaces developed, ligatures were retained to ! improve the appearance of certain letter combinations. In some cases, ! it was used to allow certain letter combinations to be more closely ! spaced (e.g., "To" or "Vo") and were referred to as "logotypes". In ! other cases, the designs of two letters were merged to keep the ! overall spacing of words uniform. Ligatures are provided in most ! contemporary fonts for exactly this reason. [Ed: there is no "complete" set of ligatures.] *************** *** 114,124 **** All of the above, plus the following: ! Scalable Times Roman and Scalable Univers using Compugraphic's ! Intellifont hinted font format. - SPARCPrinters have the basic 35 font plus four scaled faces of each of - Bembo, Gill Sans, Rockwell, Lucida, Lucida Bright, Sans and Typewriter, - giving a total of 57 fonts, all in the F3 format. - 6.5. Glossary --- 100,105 ---- All of the above, plus the following: ! Scalable Times Roman, Scalable Univers 6.5. Glossary *************** *** 134,137 **** --- 115,125 ---- it. + More technically: + + The baseline is the invisible line around which character images are + positioned. A sequence of characters is usually aligned, when rendered, + according to the baseline. For example, an English 'A' sits on top of + the baseline, while 'g' extends both above and below the baseline." + bitmap *************** *** 419,430 **** Bill Ricker <wdr@world.std.com> - _Chicago Manual of Style_ (University of Chicago Press, 1982; - ISBN 0-226-10390-0). - - The chapter on Design and Typography is most directly relevant, but there - are a lot of hints scattered all through the Chicago Manual on making your - words more readable and your pages more attractive. - Stan Brown <brown@ncoast.org> - 7.2.1. (En)Coding Standards --- 407,410 ---- *************** *** 432,449 **** Character Encoding_, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. - Unicode consortium e-mail address is: - - unicode-inc@hq.m4.metaphor.com - - To obtain more information on Unicode or to order their printed material - and/or diskettes contact: - - Steven A. Greenfield - Unicode Office Manager - 1965 Charleston Road - Mountain View, CA 94043 - Tel. 415-966-4189 - Fax. 415-966-1637 - _Xerox Character Code Standard_, Xerox Corp., Xerox Systems Institute, 475 Oakmead Parkway, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 --- 412,415 ---- *************** *** 639,653 **** Masumi Abe <abe@adobe.com> Tim Bradshaw <tim.bradshaw@edinburgh.ac.UK> - Stan Brown <brown@ncoast.org> Terry Carroll <tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com> Ari Davidow <ari@netcom.com> Pat Farrell <pfarrell@cs.gmu.edu> ! Yossi Gil <yogi@cs.ubc.ca> ! Kesh Govinder <govinder@ph.und.ac.za> ! Rick Heli <Rick.Heli@Eng.Sun.COM> Gary <Gocek.Henr801C@Xerox.COM> Berthold K.P. Horn <bkph@ai.mit.edu> Don Hosek <dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu> ! Bharathi Jagadeesh <bjag@nwu.edu> David Mandl <dmandl@bilbo.shearson.com> Kate McDonnell <?> --- 605,616 ---- Masumi Abe <abe@adobe.com> Tim Bradshaw <tim.bradshaw@edinburgh.ac.UK> Terry Carroll <tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com> Ari Davidow <ari@netcom.com> Pat Farrell <pfarrell@cs.gmu.edu> ! Rick Heli <?> Gary <Gocek.Henr801C@Xerox.COM> Berthold K.P. Horn <bkph@ai.mit.edu> Don Hosek <dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu> ! Yossi Gil <yogi@cs.ubc.ca> David Mandl <dmandl@bilbo.shearson.com> Kate McDonnell <?> diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.2.Mac-Info oldfaq/FAQ.2.Mac-Info *** newfaq/FAQ.2.Mac-Info Mon Dec 7 14:08:35 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.2.Mac-Info Mon Dec 7 14:02:25 1992 *************** *** 1,5 **** FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter II: Macintosh-specific Info ! Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many --- 1,5 ---- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter II: Macintosh-specific Info ! Version 1.1.0., Release 02NOV92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many *************** *** 66,70 **** Japanese Shorai (Hirigana, with application) ! Star Trek StarTrekClassic, Star TrekClassicMovies, StarTrekTNGCrille, StarTrekTNG Titles, TNG monitors, StarFleet, Klinzai (Klingon font) --- 66,70 ---- Japanese Shorai (Hirigana, with application) ! Start Trek StarTrekClassic, Star TrekClassicMovies, StarTrekTNGCrille, StarTrekTNG Titles, TNG monitors, StarFleet, Klinzai (Klingon font) diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.3.MS-DOS-Info oldfaq/FAQ.3.MS-DOS-Info *** newfaq/FAQ.3.MS-DOS-Info Mon Dec 7 14:08:35 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.3.MS-DOS-Info Mon Dec 7 14:02:25 1992 *************** *** 1,5 **** FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter III: MS-DOS-specific Info ! Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many --- 1,5 ---- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter III: MS-DOS-specific Info ! Version 1.1.0., Release 02NOV92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many *************** *** 151,164 **** Windows' Control Panel, then try moving them higher in your WIN.INI file with a file edittor such as SYSEDIT. - - Kesh Govinder <govinder@ph.und.ac.za> suggested the following warning: - - CAUTION: While many Windows 3.1 users would like to have many - TrueType fonts at their disposal (and they are many available in the - PD) a word of caution. A large number (>50) TT fonts will slow down - your windows startup time. This occurs as every installed font is - listed in the win.ini file, and Windows has to go through the entire - file before starting up. While this may not affect most users, it - will especially affect users of CorelDraw!, so be warned. Other Programs --- 151,154 ---- diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.4.Unix-Info oldfaq/FAQ.4.Unix-Info *** newfaq/FAQ.4.Unix-Info Mon Dec 7 14:08:35 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.4.Unix-Info Mon Dec 7 14:02:25 1992 *************** *** 1,5 **** FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter IV: *nix-specific Info ! Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many --- 1,5 ---- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter IV: *nix-specific Info ! Version 1.1.0., Release 02NOV92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.5.Sun-Info oldfaq/FAQ.5.Sun-Info *** newfaq/FAQ.5.Sun-Info Mon Dec 7 14:08:36 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.5.Sun-Info Mon Dec 7 14:02:25 1992 *************** *** 1,5 **** FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter V: Sun-specific Info ! Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many --- 1,5 ---- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter V: Sun-specific Info ! Version 1.1.0., Release 02NOV92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many *************** *** 37,42 **** The following information regarding fonts under Open Windows was stolen ! from Liam R.E. Quim's <lee@sq.com> Open Windows FAQ. The original author ! was Rick Heli <Rick.Heli@Eng.Sun.COM>. 2. Does OpenWindows support Type 1 PostScript fonts? --- 37,41 ---- The following information regarding fonts under Open Windows was stolen ! from Liam R.E. Quim's <lee@sq.com> Open Windows FAQ. 2. Does OpenWindows support Type 1 PostScript fonts? diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.6.NeXT-Info oldfaq/FAQ.6.NeXT-Info *** newfaq/FAQ.6.NeXT-Info Mon Dec 7 14:08:36 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.6.NeXT-Info Mon Dec 7 14:02:25 1992 *************** *** 1,5 **** FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter VI: NeXT-specific Info ! Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many --- 1,5 ---- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter VI: NeXT-specific Info ! Version 1.1.0., Release 02NOV92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.7.X-Info oldfaq/FAQ.7.X-Info *** newfaq/FAQ.7.X-Info Mon Dec 7 14:08:36 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.7.X-Info Mon Dec 7 14:02:25 1992 *************** *** 1,5 **** FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter VII: X-specific Info ! Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many --- 1,5 ---- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter VII: X-specific Info ! Version 1.1.0., Release 02NOV92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.8.Utilities oldfaq/FAQ.8.Utilities *** newfaq/FAQ.8.Utilities Mon Dec 7 14:08:36 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.8.Utilities Mon Dec 7 14:02:26 1992 *************** *** 1,5 **** FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter VIII: Font utilities ! Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many --- 1,5 ---- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter VIII: Font utilities ! Version 1.1.0., Release 02NOV92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many diff -c2 newfaq/FAQ.A.VendorList oldfaq/FAQ.A.VendorList *** newfaq/FAQ.A.VendorList Mon Dec 7 14:08:36 1992 --- oldfaq/FAQ.A.VendorList Mon Dec 7 14:02:26 1992 *************** *** 1,5 **** FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter Appendix A: Vendor List ! Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many --- 1,5 ---- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter Appendix A: Vendor List ! Version 1.1.0., Release 02NOV92 Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many *************** *** 102,155 **** (312) 965-8800 ! Bitstream, Inc. ! Athenaeum House ! 215 First St. ! Cambridge, MA 02142 ! (617) 497-6222 ! (800) 237-3335 ! ! A representative of Bitstream sent the following correction to me. ! ! Bitstream offers: ! ! **1100 PostScript Type 1 fonts for the Mac & PC. (These can ! be ordered direct from Bitstream or thru several resellers.) ! ! ** Bitstream Type Treasury -- the Bitstream Type Library for ! the Mac (Type 1 format) on CD ROM. ! ! ** Bitsteram Type Essentials--a series of 4 Typeface ! Packages for PC & Mac that were selected to work well for ! different jobs (Letters, Memos & Faxes; Newsletters, ! Brochures & Announcements; Spreadsheets, Graphs & ! Presentations; Headlines). ! ! **Bitstream Typeface Packages for the PC -- 52 packages ! (most with 4 faces each) that include a total of over 200 ! faces, with mutiple font formats in each package (Bitstream ! Speedo, Type 1, Bitstream Fontware) ! ! ** Bitstream TrueType Font Packs 1 & 2 for Microsoft Windows ! ** Bitstream PostScript Font Packs 1 & 2 for the PC ! ! ** Bitstream FaceLift for Windows ! ** Bitstream FaceLift for WordPerfect ! - both are font scaling/font management utilities. ! ! ** Bitstream MakeUp for Windows - a type manipulation/ ! special effects program. ! ! ** Bitstream Li'l Bits -- a new product line of novelty ! fonts in TrueType format for Windows 3.1. The first release ! began shipping last week and includes The Star Trek Font ! Pack, The Flintstones Font Pack and The Winter Holiday Font ! Pack. ! ! We offer OEM customers an extensive range of non-latin type ! (as you have noted in the current listing), but these faces ! are not currently available to individual end-users. ! ! We also offer font-scaling and rasterizing technology to ! OEM customers. Blaha Software/Janus Associates : Big Foot (Mac) (HP/IBM) --- 102,111 ---- (312) 965-8800 ! Bitstream, Inc. : MacFontware, SoftFonts (Mac) (HP/IBM) ! Athenaeum House Greek, Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew, ! 215 First St. Devanagari, Tai Dam, Laotian and Kanji ! Cambridge, MA 02142 (Ryobi Mincho and Gothic). ! (617) 497-6222 Arabic = Malik (simplified), Madina ! (800) 237-3335 (traditional), Sharif (headline) Blaha Software/Janus Associates : Big Foot (Mac) (HP/IBM) Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu comp.fonts:6268 news.answers:3842 Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!rutgers!concert!gatech!destroyer!caen!nic.umass.edu!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!walsh From: walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norman Walsh) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,news.answers Subject: comp.fonts FAQ diffs Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts. This file contains the context diffs of version 1.0.0. of the FAQ and version 1.1.0. of the comp.fonts FAQ. Message-ID: <WALSH.92Nov2160324@ibis.cs.umass.edu> Date: 2 Nov 92 21:03:24 GMT Expires: 4 Dec 92 00:00:00 GMT Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norm Walsh) Followup-To: poster Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 1586 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Archive-name: fonts-faq/diffs01 Version: 1.1.0. *** FAQ-1.0.0 Wed Oct 28 15:33:02 1992 --- FAQ-1.1.0 Fri Oct 30 13:34:51 1992 *************** *** 1,26 **** ! FAQ for comp.fonts: Part I: General Info ! Version 1.0.0, Release 02OCT92 ! Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. This article, posted monthly, describes many of the basic questions that seem to be repeated frequently on comp.fonts. ! Your comments are both welcome and encouraged. ! The FAQ is divided into sections. The first section is a general overview. ! The remaining sections are more-or-less platform specific. The FAQ is posted ! in pieces to avoid clobbering news and/or mail gateways that are incapable ! of handling arbitrarily large items. ! ! The sections are: ! ! Part I: General Info ! Part II: Macintosh-specific Info ! Part III: MS-DOS-specific Info ! Part IV: *nix-specific Info ! Part V: Sun-specific Info ! Part VI: NeXT-specifc Info ! Part VII: X-specific Info ! Part VIII: Font utilities Even if you don't use a particular architecture, you may find it helpful to read the FAQ for that platform at least once. Some ideas, like font format --- 1,30 ---- ! FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter I: General Info ! Version 1.1.0., Release 30OCT92 ! Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many of the basic questions that seem to be repeated frequently on comp.fonts. ! Your comments are both welcome and encouraged. ! The FAQ is divided into chapters. The first chapter is a general overview. ! Most of the remaining chapters are more-or-less platform specific. + In response to end-user demand, the FAQ is now posted in context-dependent + sections rather than as one long document divided into 1000 line sections. + The FAQ is always available via anonymous ftp from ibis.cs.umass.edu in + /pub/norm/comp.fonts/FAQ* + + The chapters are: + + 1. General-Info + 2. Mac-Info + 3. MS-DOS-Info + 4. Unix-Info + 5. Sun-Info + 6. NeXT-Info + 7. X-Info + 8. Utilities + A. Vendors + Even if you don't use a particular architecture, you may find it helpful to read the FAQ for that platform at least once. Some ideas, like font format *************** *** 28,48 **** expressed in platform-specific tools at this time. ! After the FAQ is more stable, monthly DIFFs will be posted as well as the ! complete FAQ. ! ! This section is divided into the following topics: ! ! 0. Notes about the FAQ ! 1. What's the difference between type 1 fonts, type 3 fonts, type 5 fonts, ! Macintosh fonts, Windows fonts, TrueType fonts, LaserJet fonts, etc. ! 2. Where can I get <> fonts. ! 3. Where can I get fonts for non-Roman alphabets. ! 4. How can I convert my <> font to <> format? ! 5. Are fonts copyrightable? ! 6. File Formats / Font Formats / Ligatures / Standard Fonts / Glossary ! 7. Bibliography / Other Resources ! 8. Rules of Thumb ! 9. Acknowledgements ! 10. A brief introduction to typography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- 32,65 ---- expressed in platform-specific tools at this time. ! This months diffs are for the FAQ as a single whole (the way it was posted ! last month), in the future, diffs will be sensitive to the fact that the ! FAQ is posted in chapters. ! ! This chapter covers the following topics: ! ! 0. Notes about the FAQ. ! 1. What's the difference between type 1 fonts, type 3 fonts, type 5 fonts, ! Macintosh fonts, Windows fonts, TrueType fonts, LaserJet fonts, etc. ! 2. Where can I get _____ fonts. ! 3. Where can I get fonts for non-Roman alphabets. ! 4. How can I convert my _____ font to _____ format? ! 5. Are fonts copyrightable? ! 6. General Font Information ! 6.1. File Formats ! 6.1.1. File Format Extensions ! 6.2. Font Formats ! 6.2.1. Font Format Extensions ! 6.3. Ligatures ! 6.4. Standard Laser Printer Fonts ! 6.5. Glossary ! 7. Other Resources ! 7.1. The Bibliography ! 7.2.1. (En)Coding Standards ! 7.2.2. TrueType ! 8. Rules of Thumb ! 8.1. General guidelines: ! 8.2. Good rules of thumb: ! 9. Acknowledgements ! 10. A Brief Introduction to Typography ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *************** *** 56,59 **** --- 73,79 ---- glossary, please let us know. + If you want to skip quickly forward through the questions, the following + regular expression matches only the beginning of each question: "^[0-9]+."