Re: Adobe Web Type

[Jean-Francois Porchez <jfporchez AT hol.fr>]

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> Boag:
> > >Just wondered if any members can fill me in on the contents of Adobe's
> > >new(ish) product called 'Web Type 1'. Are these fonts specially hinted,
> or
> > >with special bitmaps, or are they a first 'opentype' offering?
> 
> Bosma:
> > I know that they are hand hinted TrueType fonts.
> 
> They're "web" because they're well-hinted TrueTypes, thus good on screen,
> and are WEFT-embeddable in web pages (simply by virtue of their being
> TrueTypes and having certain embedding bits). Adobe makes no mention of
> character sets, so they're probably without Eastern European, Greek &
> Cyrillic (WGL4 etc.) - something that at one time Microsoft seemed to by
> trying to make part of a "web type" definition. Corrections?
> 
> I'm interested to know how Adobe plans to set their OT embedding bits in
> both flavours of OT, in their retail fonts. I assume they'll choose an
> explicit "view & print" in all their fonts that is implicit with Acrobat
> unless you take protective measures.


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