At 7:08 PM +0400 8/22/02, Vadim Plessky wrote:
>On Tuesday 20 August 2002 8:08 pm, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>| Because only recently (Windows 2000 & Mac OS X) did the major
>| OS platforms start supporting it w/o the need for add-ons (eg. Adobe
>| Type Manager).
>
>You need to install ATM 4.1, to be able to render OpenType under Windows 98.
I am aware of that - read what I wrote again ;).
If you want REAL OpenType support on Windows, upgrade to
either 2000 or XP. Anything else, as you note, is a hack and not
100%...
>| Adobe is shipping ALL NEW FONTS as OpenType, as well as going
>| back and redoing many of their most popular faces as Extended
>| OpenType (with all the ligatures, etc.)
>|
>
>I did some further research.
>
>About Adobe:
>
>I have checked
>http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html
>and Type -> Type downloads
>http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=190
Forget about that! Look at their commercial fonts -
<http://www.adobe.com:80/products/fontfolio/main.html>. Note the
"more then 175 fonts in the cross-platform OpenType Pro format".
>Are you sure that Windows ME supports OpenType?
Nope, not sure at all. Never used it...I can, however, vouch
that 2000 and XP support it since I've used OT fonts with both.
>BTW: I do not see that Win2k/XP get market share from Windows 98.
>Win98/95 has about 75% share of all Windows system used, and WinNT/2000/XP -
>accounts just for 25%.
I didn't say they HAD it, but that it is increasing. And
given the improvements in technology in the newer systems (such as OT
support) - that's a good thing!
It would be like you comparing KDE 1.0 ;).
>Therefor, it's unlikely OpenType will get acceptance soon (next 2-3 years).:-(
>(as MacOS X is limited to PowerPC / Apple hardware, and Passport in WinXP is
>extremly annoying)
>
>But we can try to promote it on Linux/UNIX'es, though
>
Promoting it on Linux is fine, but that won't convince font
foundries to support it. They only care about Mac OS and Windows,
since that's where the people who pay for fonts are.
Leonard
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