Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
Yes, I figured that out. I believe I called Adobe tech support about
the problem, so they should be aware of it.

You're right, there's nothing wrong with the design of Adobe Pi. The
moron was whoever did the Zapf  Pi mapping in FrameMaker 8.

The UI makeover in FM9 was wrong in so many ways that it would be a
good negative example for UI design classes. Some of the people who
did the work might be competent but the people in charge are
world-class incompetents, up there with the geniuses behind OS/2,
Microsoft Bob, and Clippy.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Dov Isaacs isa...@adobe.com wrote:
 Please see the response I sent out a few minutes ago. There is nothing wrong 
 with the Adobe Pi font, but rather, there is a nasty mapping issue that 
 should have been resolved in FrameMaker if they in fact had a .ini file 
 setting mapping Type 1 Zapf Dingbats to Adobe Pi or any other OpenType 
 version of Zapf Dingbats.

 And quite frankly, I think it is a hell of a lot of chutzpa on your part to 
 label the designers of Adobe Pi as “morons.” The font simply follows the 
 international specifications for both OpenType fonts and Unicode encoding. 
 How does that make them “morons?” Likewise, you may not like the UI makeover 
 of FrameMaker (maybe I don’t either), but that doesn’t make those who 
 designed and implemented it “morons.”
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Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
I know a lot about OS/2. I covered operating systems for PC World from
1989 to 1993 and used every version from 1.0 to 4.0. It was
technically advanced in certain ways but utterly unsuitable for the
average users IBM somehow thought would buy it. Microsoft had no
choice but to unchain themselves from that sinking ship.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Dov Isaacs isa...@adobe.com wrote:
 Maybe we can just stop labelling people as “morons” or “incompetents” …

 And by the way, if you know anything about the real history of OS/2, you
 wouldn’t be labelling them as “incompetents.” The fact was that OS/2 was
 supposed to be the enterprise OS for PCs as a joint Microsoft / IBM project
 until Microsoft stabbed IBM in the back deciding to go their own way and
 back out of their commitments. Technically, OS/2 was far ahead of Windows’9x
 and early Windows NT!
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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-18 Thread Craig Ede

Dov,

I didn't initiate this conversation, but I'd like to chime in. 

Your points are well taken, but a problem I had with the Adobe PI substitution 
was that simple bullets were coming across as question marks in my PDFs. That 
would indicate a mapping problem that is pretty obvious.

Also, you might want to tell the Framemaker team that whenever I open a new 
DITA document in FrameMaker I get the following messages in the FrameMaker 
console:

The Zapfdingbats Font Family is not available.
  Adobe Pi Std will be used in this session.
The Zapfdingbats Regular Font is not available.
  AdobePiStd will be used in this session.

If Adobe Pi Std is not a problem, maybe they should update the DITA templates 
for the next release and remove the source of this error. That is, unless 
Zapf-Dingbats is somehow part of the DITA standard (which really can't be 
true). The fewer the error messages the more likely we are to see critical 
errors.

Thanks for all your insights.

Craig

 From: isa...@adobe.com 
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com 
 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:07:05 -0800 
 Subject: RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly 
 off-topic, but related in a way! 
 
 
 Exactly what is the problem you have with Adobe Pi? Adobe Pi was 
 designed to serve as a substitute for Zapf Dingbats originally for 
 Acrobat and Reader and then for other Adobe applications. Although the 
 design of each of the glyphs is not identical, Adobe Pi does do a 
 fairly good job as a substitute and in some cases, the glyphs are much 
 more modern looking than Zapf Dingbat’s highly dated look.
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Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-18 Thread Robert Lauriston
Adobe Pi's character map is different than the Type 1 Zapf that used
to be included with FrameMaker, so without the old font the solid,
hollow, and square bullets in the template I inherited showed up as
question marks in my online help and PDF.

Maybe Adobe Pi was designed by the same morons who did the UI makeover
in FrameMaker 9.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Dov Isaacs isa...@adobe.com wrote:

 Exactly what is the problem you have with Adobe Pi? Adobe Pi was designed to 
 serve as a substitute for Zapf Dingbats originally for Acrobat and Reader and 
 then for other Adobe applications. Although the design of each of the glyphs 
 is not identical, Adobe Pi does do a fairly good job as a substitute and in 
 some cases, the glyphs are much more modern looking than Zapf Dingbat’s 
 highly dated look.
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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
Craig,

I will assume that the symptoms you are reporting are indeed occurring!

That being the case, it would appear that FrameMaker is simply not mapping the 
Type 1 Zapf Dingbats character positions to the proper positions in Adobe Pi, a 
Unicode-based OpenType CFF font. In the old Type 1 fonts, symbols simply 
replaced the standard ASCII glyphs for both mapping and keying. This is 
absolutely not true for Unicode-based symbol fonts; thus the need for glyph 
palettes. If I recall correctly, InDesign tackled this issue years ago by 
automatically remapping characters in certain key fonts such as Type 1 Symbol 
and Zapf Dingbats to Unicode within the document when old documents were 
opened and then did a hack to output with such fonts, the user none the wiser!

Any correct modern OpenType Zapf Dingbats font, regardless of source 
(including the OpenType version from Adobe) will have this same mapping issue. 
The only workaround which I specified before was to somehow get your hands on 
one of the old Type 1 Zapf Dingbat host based fonts that ship with Adobe 
PostScript printers.

Either you or the OP in this thread should report this issue as a bug in 
FrameMaker. If they map the font name Zapf Dingbats to Adobe Pi then they 
absolutely need to remap the characters formatted in Zapf Dingbats to their new 
Unicode value, either permanently in the FrameMaker document if the change is 
permanent or simply for display and print purposes. Fill out a bug form on 
Adobe's website.

- Dov

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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Craig Ede
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 7:25 AM
To: framers
Subject: RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but 
related in a way!
Importance: High




Dov,



I didn't initiate this conversation, but I'd like to chime in.



Your points are well taken, but a problem I had with the Adobe PI substitution 
was that simple bullets were coming across as question marks in my PDFs. That 
would indicate a mapping problem that is pretty obvious.



Also, you might want to tell the Framemaker team that whenever I open a new 
DITA document in FrameMaker I get the following messages in the FrameMaker 
console:



The Zapfdingbats Font Family is not available.

  Adobe Pi Std will be used in this session.

The Zapfdingbats Regular Font is not available.

  AdobePiStd will be used in this session.



If Adobe Pi Std is not a problem, maybe they should update the DITA templates 
for the next release and remove the source of this error. That is, unless 
Zapf-Dingbats is somehow part of the DITA standard (which really can't be 
true). The fewer the error messages the more likely we are to see critical 
errors.



Thanks for all your insights.



Craig



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 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:07:05 -0800

 Subject: RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly

 off-topic, but related in a way!





 Exactly what is the problem you have with Adobe Pi? Adobe Pi was

 designed to serve as a substitute for Zapf Dingbats originally for

 Acrobat and Reader and then for other Adobe applications. Although the

 design of each of the glyphs is not identical, Adobe Pi does do a

 fairly good job as a substitute and in some cases, the glyphs are much

 more modern looking than Zapf Dingbat's highly dated look.
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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
Robert,

Please see the response I sent out a few minutes ago. There is nothing wrong 
with the Adobe Pi font, but rather, there is a nasty mapping issue that should 
have been resolved in FrameMaker if they in fact had a .ini file setting 
mapping Type 1 Zapf Dingbats to Adobe Pi or any other OpenType version of Zapf 
Dingbats.

And quite frankly, I think it is a hell of a lot of chutzpa on your part to 
label the designers of Adobe Pi as morons. The font simply follows the 
international specifications for both OpenType fonts and Unicode encoding. How 
does that make them morons? Likewise, you may not like the UI makeover of 
FrameMaker (maybe I don't either), but that doesn't make those who designed and 
implemented it morons.

- Dov

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Principal Scientist
Adobe Systems Incorporated

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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 9:19 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but 
related in a way!


Adobe Pi's character map is different than the Type 1 Zapf that used

to be included with FrameMaker, so without the old font the solid,

hollow, and square bullets in the template I inherited showed up as

question marks in my online help and PDF.



Maybe Adobe Pi was designed by the same morons who did the UI makeover

in FrameMaker 9.



On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Dov Isaacs 
isa...@adobe.commailto:isa...@adobe.com wrote:



 Exactly what is the problem you have with Adobe Pi? Adobe Pi was designed to 
 serve as a substitute for Zapf Dingbats originally for Acrobat and Reader and 
 then for other Adobe applications. Although the design of each of the glyphs 
 is not identical, Adobe Pi does do a fairly good job as a substitute and in 
 some cases, the glyphs are much more modern looking than Zapf Dingbat's 
 highly dated look.

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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
Maybe we can just stop labelling people as morons or incompetents ...

And by the way, if you know anything about the real history of OS/2, you 
wouldn't be labelling them as incompetents. The fact was that OS/2 was 
supposed to be the enterprise OS for PCs as a joint Microsoft / IBM project 
until Microsoft stabbed IBM in the back deciding to go their own way and back 
out of their commitments. Technically, OS/2 was far ahead of Windows'9x and 
early Windows NT!

- Dov

From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On Behalf 
Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 5:48 PM
To: Dov Isaacs; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but 
related in a way!


Yes, I figured that out. I believe I called Adobe tech support about

the problem, so they should be aware of it.



You're right, there's nothing wrong with the design of Adobe Pi. The

moron was whoever did the Zapf  Pi mapping in FrameMaker 8.



The UI makeover in FM9 was wrong in so many ways that it would be a

good negative example for UI design classes. Some of the people who

did the work might be competent but the people in charge are

world-class incompetents, up there with the geniuses behind OS/2,

Microsoft Bob, and Clippy.



On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Dov Isaacs 
isa...@adobe.commailto:isa...@adobe.com wrote:

 Please see the response I sent out a few minutes ago. There is nothing wrong 
 with the Adobe Pi font, but rather, there is a nasty mapping issue that 
 should have been resolved in FrameMaker if they in fact had a .ini file 
 setting mapping Type 1 Zapf Dingbats to Adobe Pi or any other OpenType 
 version of Zapf Dingbats.



 And quite frankly, I think it is a hell of a lot of chutzpa on your part to 
 label the designers of Adobe Pi as morons. The font simply follows the 
 international specifications for both OpenType fonts and Unicode encoding. 
 How does that make them morons? Likewise, you may not like the UI makeover 
 of FrameMaker (maybe I don't either), but that doesn't make those who 
 designed and implemented it morons.
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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Craig Ede

And while we are on the topic of fonts and FrameMaker, can someone suggest a 
reasonable way to get the ZapfDingbat font cheaply, since the default FM 
installation often complains about this font not being available (even using 
their templates). BTW: I understand Adobe not wanting to license it with its 
products anymore, but the default replacement that FM substitutes is completely 
silly.

 From: syed.hos...@aeris.net 
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com 
 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:08:53 -0800 
 Subject: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, 
 but related in a way! 
 
 
 Hi, all (particularly Dov Isaacs, as I seem to remember that you know a 
 lot about Adobe fonts)...
 
 
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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but ... related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Craig Ede

Adobe must have done business with them as they now own Macromedia's old 
product Fontographer.

Craig

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 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:18 -0800
 Subject: RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but 
 ... related in a way!

 Thanks for that link, Mike. I will take a look at that site.
 
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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
Exactly what is the problem you have with Adobe Pi? Adobe Pi was designed to 
serve as a substitute for Zapf Dingbats originally for Acrobat and Reader and 
then for other Adobe applications. Although the design of each of the glyphs is 
not identical, Adobe Pi does do a fairly good job as a substitute and in some 
cases, the glyphs are much more modern looking than Zapf Dingbat's highly dated 
look.

If you really want ITC Zapf Dingbats, you really need to look no further than 
any printer you have that has Adobe PostScript. Each such printer should have a 
host software package that includes copies of all the printer resident fonts, 
including the Type 1 version of ITC Zapf Dingbats for use on computers using 
the particular printer. Problem solved!

- Dov


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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:26 AM
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Subject: Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but 
related in a way!


I had a confusing problem with the three Zapf bullets my inherited

templates use for nested lists not rendering.



Eventually I figured out that the Type 1 font had never been installed

on my computer because the master font directory was missing the .pfb

file.



I didn't really want to install such an old font so I tried font

replacement of Zapfdingbat with ZapfDingbats BT, that didn't work

because the character set is not the same.



Eventually I decided to use Arial Black's Unicode characters 2022,

25E6, and 25AA instead.



Why Adobe mapped Zapf to Adobe Pi Std in the first place ...

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Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-16 Thread Mike Wickham

I, too, wish there were an upgrade path for fonts.

Though I haven't tried them, something else to look at might be the 
various font conversion utilities. Searching on font conversion turned 
up several free online utilities. You can also buy professional 
conversion utilities at http://www.fontlab.com.


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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but ... related in a way!

2013-01-16 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Thanks for that link, Mike. I will take a look at that site.

Although I hazard a guess that this would get me the same info in the new 
formats, but not really deal, of course, with font corrections/tweaks that the 
Adobe Designer might have made, or Unicode additions, etc.

Z

 I, too, wish there were an upgrade path for fonts.

 Though I haven't tried them, something else to look at might be the various 
 font conversion utilities. Searching on font conversion turned up several 
 free online utilities. You can also buy professional conversion utilities at 
 http://www.fontlab.com.

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RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-16 Thread Dov Isaacs
With regards to updating old versions of Adobe fonts ...

(1)For better or for worse, Adobe has never offered any upgrades for 
users of individual typefaces or full font families licensed from Adobe. This 
includes not only the original Type 1 fonts, but also Multiple Master and now 
OpenType fonts (yes, there have been significant updates and improvements in 
those fonts since they were first released over a dozen years ago). The only 
upgrades that Adobe offers are for licensees of the Adobe Font Folio products. 
(I will not even attempt to provide the business reasons for this or justify it 
any way, but those were the decisions made. FWIW, Adobe's policies in terms of 
font upgrades is fairly consistent with industry practice.)

(2)Originally, the OpenType format was also supposed to support a 
Multiple Master flavor of fonts, but this was dropped shortly before the first 
release of the OpenType fonts due to the objections of Microsoft who refused to 
support such a feature. When Adobe made the OpenType versions of the Type 1 
Multiple Master fonts, it made an individual font to match each and every one 
of the primary instances of the comparable Type 1 Multiple Master font in terms 
of weight, style, optical style, etc. In some cases, extra fonts were added to 
reflect common customized Multiple Master instances that were believed to be in 
use and of general usefulness to users. Migrating from Multiple Master to 
OpenType requires you to match the Type 1 Multiple Master font instance with 
the particular member of the comparable OpenType font family.

(3)With regards to converting fonts - let's say from Type 1 to 
OpenType, we strongly discourage that. Although this may sound self-serving and 
even assuming you use a product that preserves hinting and metrics, you gain 
virtually nothing from such conversions other than a repackaging of the font. 
In producing the OpenType version of its type library, quite a bit of work was 
done in the area of adjusting and correcting metrics, supporting Unicode, 
creating links that allow for automatic use of ligatures in page layout 
programs, easy access to alternative and swash characters, small caps, and old 
style figures, etc.

Given that Adobe hasn't release any Type 1 or Multiple Master fonts in a dozen 
years, from a business perspective, you can readily declare that your Type 1 
fonts from Adobe are fully depreciated. Adobe is not abandoning Type 1 support 
in any of its products (nor do we have any plans for such abandonment) and we 
absolutely cannot eliminate Type 1 and Multiple Master support for Acrobat (for 
the obvious reason that we will forever need to support embedded fonts in 
existing PDF files).

What I typically recommend is for users to continue to use their Type 1 fonts 
with existing documents and publications and add the OpenType fonts as 
necessary under any one or more of the following scenarios:

(1)You create a new publication (or artwork) or significantly modify 
the style of an existing publication (or artwork).

(2)You need to have cross-platform compatibility for editing.

(3)You need access to the typographical and multilingual features (via 
Unicode) of OpenType fonts.

Further note that the OpenType fonts from Adobe have different names (typically 
suffixed with either Std - standard character sets or Pro - extended character 
sets often with support for one or more non-Western Latin alphabets) than the 
Type 1 or Multiple Master fonts they replace. You will need to do some edit 
work to migrate an existing document to use of OpenType (note that this is 
where use of paragraph and character styles really pays off handsomely!). We 
purposely did this renaming in order to avoid any misperception of 100% 
compatibility of the Type 1 to OpenType migration. There is minor chance of 
text reflow, but also the possibility of problems with mapping of non-ASCII 
characters (this is especially true for all characters in fonts such as Symbol, 
Carta, Sonata, and Zapf Dingbats).

-Dov

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Subject: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but 
related in a way!

Hi, all (particularly Dov Isaacs, as I seem to remember that you know a lot 
about Adobe fonts).

Over the years, I bought a number of