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Help & other pages (11)
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OpenType fonts
Briefly, OpenType is a font format jointly developed by Adobe and Microsoft in the late 1990ʼs. It came into wider use only after 2000, when Adobe included support for advanced typographic features in their InDesign, PhotoShop, and Illustrator... -
PostScript fonts
PostScript or Type 1 fonts were developed by Adobe in 1985 for use with their PostScript printers. Initially, this font technology was available only from Adobe. PostScript has traditionally been preferred by professional designers, publishers... -
TrueType fonts
The TrueType format was jointly developed by Apple and Microsoft in 1991, several years after the release of the PostScript Type 1 font format. Despite the format’s technical superiority (most of the system fonts on both Mac and Windows computers... -
Arabic fonts in QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress® requires AXt fonts and Layout Ltd’s ArabicXT™ extension for setting Arabic text. AXt fonts are non-Unicode fonts, using the ‘Mac Roman’ encoding; Arabic glyphs are substituted for the Roman glyphs, so for example ‘alef’... -
Language Support
For the past decade Typotheque has invested considerable effort into developing fonts with extended character sets to meet the needs of global communications. Typotheque pays as much attention to its ‘non-Latin’ fonts as to its Latin...
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