On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:40 AM, Charlie Jolly wrote:
> Just interested in cross-platform issues. > > Is it possible to produce one OpenType font for a complex script e.g. > Hindi > that works with Uniscribe on Windows and ATSUI on the Mac? Or does the Mac > version need to be geared towards AAT? > ATSUI uses AAT. There is no technical reason why a font cannot contain both the data needed for OT to work on Windows and ATSUI/AAT on the Mac. > also > > Does Adobe's CoolType basically do what Uniscribe/ATSUI does, albeit with > less script support? > No. CoolType, so far, is geared mostly at typography for Latin and not at complex scirpt support. > thirdly > > Does MSOffice X for the Mac make use of Unscribe? > Uniscribe doesn't exist on the Mac. MS Office X converts Unicode text to runs of older Mac script systems and does not use ATSUI. It is therefore limited in the extent to which it supports Unicode. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
