Peter C. wrote:
>> font vendors are creating fonts that use Unicode, platform vendors
>> (at least Mac and Windows -- Linux is too fractured a scene to
>> make a general statement)
On Monday, December 6th, 2004 18:40Z Edward H. Trager va escriure:
>
> The really big, important applications and co
Michael Everson scripsit:
> >I think it's more accurate to say that you need to find a way to
> >compensate the font developer for his effort; this need not involve
> >money.
> >I, for example, create programs and give them to people for a reward I
> >consider sufficient; professionally, I write
At 22:15 -0500 2004-12-07, John Cowan wrote:
I think it's more accurate to say that you need to find a way to
compensate the font developer for his effort; this need not involve money.
I, for example, create programs and give them to people for a reward I
consider sufficient; professionally, I writ
John Cowan wrote:
OpenType is a trademark of Microsoft and a proprietary font format
jointly developed by Microsoft and Adobe.
The question is, is it an open standard? That is, is anyone free to
create OpenType fonts, OpenType font tools, OpenType font renderers?
Is the documentation freely ava
John Hudson scripsit:
> OpenType is a trademark of Microsoft and a proprietary font format
> jointly developed by Microsoft and Adobe.
The question is, is it an open standard? That is, is anyone free to
create OpenType fonts, OpenType font tools, OpenType font renderers?
Is the documentation f
Peter R. Mueller-Roemer wrote:
wITH 'it' you refer to OpenType ? So OpentType are Type-faces= fonts
that are only open by leaving technical details unrestricted to
font-designers, text-processing-software?
Then it's name is another MISNOMER (the word Open can't be made
proprietary by itself, so
> I suspect that font vendors generally do not use the term "unicode-font"
> as it is ambiguous: the intent would be to mean that the font comforms
> to Unicode encoding, but most customers out there would understand it to
> mean that it covers all the characters in Unicode. For the most part,
> f
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On
> Behalf Of Peter R. Mueller-Roemer
> > It has always been a proprietary font format. It has never been
> > anything but proprietary.
> wITH 'it' you refer to OpenType ? So OpentType are Type-faces= fonts
> that are only open by leaving tech
Peter R. Mueller-Roemer wrote:
> The Unicode-Standard I hope is Open in the sense that any font that is
> designed to this standard may call itself a unicode-font (complete or
> partial ...).
>
> Unicode has a great potential to remove the language-specific
> boundaries from web-communication, bu
John Hudson wrote:
Philippe Verdy wrote:
Is there a way outside OpenType for other system vendors than
Microsoft and Apple? This standard loks more and more proprietary...
It has always been a proprietary font format. It has never been
anything but proprietary.
John Hudson
wITH 'it' you refer t
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