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Opentype User Guide OpenType® User Guide A for Adobe® Fonts August What is OpenType? Minimum System Requirements for OpenType .otf Fonts Additional Software Installation a Installing OpenType .otf Fonts Removing OpenType .otf Fonts OpenType and Font Management Utilities Accessing Foreign Language Characters Application Support for Advanced OpenType Features OpenType and Adobe Applications š www.adobe.com/type/opentype ţ ffi Θ λ Ж 5⁄8 € bc 2 OpenType User Guide What is OpenType? “estimated” (), and litre (ℓ). Adobe’s “Pro” fonts add a full range of accented characters to support central and OpenType is a new cross-platform font fi le format devel- eastern European languages, such as Turkish and Polish. oped by Adobe and Microso . Based on Unicode, Open- Many of the Pro fonts also contain Cyrillic and Greek Type is an extension of the TrueType format that character extensions in the same font. can now support PostScript® font data and new typo- graphic features. OpenType fonts containing TrueType Advanced Typography with OpenType Pro fonts data have a .ttf or .ttc suffi x in the font fi le name, while PostScript based OpenType fonts have an .otf fi le name OpenType fonts may also contain more than , suffi x. is user guide deals primarily with the installa- glyphs, unleashing exciting typographic capabilities. tion and use of OpenType .otf fonts. Many non-standard glyphs, such as oldstyle fi gures, true small capitals, fractions, swashes, superiors, inferiors, OpenType fonts may include an expanded character ornaments, titling letters, contextual and stylistic alter- set and layout features to provide richer linguistic sup- nates, beginning and ending letterforms and a full range port and advanced typographic control. Feature-rich of ligatures may also be included in a single font. In the OpenType fonts from Adobe with support for central past, a typical Western PostScript font was limited to European (CE) languages can be distinguished by the glyphs, forcing users to install and manage two or more word “Pro,” which is part of the font name and appears style-related fonts in order to access “expert” or other in application font menus. OpenType fonts that do supplemental characters. OpenType signifi cantly simpli- not contain central European language support are fi es font management and the publishing workfl ow by labeled “Standard,” and are designated by an “Std” suffi x ensuring that all of the required glyphs for a document in the fonts’ menu names. All OpenType fonts can also are contained in one cross-platform font fi le throughout be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and the workfl ow. TrueType fonts. One Cross-Platform Font File All OpenType fonts use a single font fi le for all of their outline, metric, and bitmap data, making fi le manage- ment simpler. e fi le names for OpenType fonts from Adobe are clearly descriptive. In addition, the same font fi le works on Macintosh and Windows computers, improving cross-platform portability for documents. Macintosh Windows Historically, some of the highest-quality typefaces have had diff erent designs for diff erent print sizes. Called “opticals,” these variations have been optimized for use at specifi c point sizes. A number of OpenType fonts from Adobe include four optical size variations: caption, regu- lar, subhead and display. Although the exact intended sizes vary by family, the general size ranges include: caption (- point), regular (- point), subhead (- point) and display (- point). Better Language Support Unbelievable Caption Based on Unicode, an international multi-byte char- acter encoding that covers virtually all of the world’s Regular (Text) languages, OpenType fonts can make multilingual Unbelievable typography easier by including multiple language char- Subhead acter sets in one font. All OpenType fonts from Adobe Unbelievable include the standard range of Latin characters used throughout the western world, and several international Unbelievable Display characters, including the euro currency symbol (), OpenType User Guide 3 Overall, OpenType provides richer support for the your PostScript Type or OpenType .otf fonts to both world’s languages, more powerful typographic capa- PostScript and non PostScript printers. bilities, better cross-platform compatibility, as well as Note: Windows 2000 and Windows XP do not require simplifi ed font management. For more information ATM Light. Mac OS X only needs ATM Light to pro- on OpenType, please refer to the Adobe web site at vide support for “Classic” applications, not for Carbon or www.adobe.com/type/opentype. native applications. Minimum System Requirements To download ATM Light, go to: for OpenType .otf Fonts http://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/main.html. If using AdobePS . or later, you should also update Macintosh ATM to ..a/..a. e update is available at: http: • Macintosh with PowerPC® processor //www.adobe.com/support/downloads • Mac OS . to . or Mac OS X Note: Adobe recommends that once you install ATM • ATM® Light or Deluxe, version . or later (not Light, you increase the utility’s character cache setting (the required for Mac OS X native) amount of memory allocated for storing font information • AdobePS printer driver . or later recommended if and drawing it to your computer screen) to at least 512K using a PostScript printer with Mac OS . or in Windows 98/ME (newer versions of Windows do not • ATM updater to ..a/..a, have a character cache setting), and to at least 1MB in if using AdobePS . or later the Macintosh version. To increase this setting in the Win- • MB of RAM dows version, select the “Settings” tab in the ATM window. Windows On the Macintosh, it is in the main control panel for ATM • PC using a Pentium® or compatible processor Light; in ATM Deluxe, select the “Preferences…” command • Microso Windows® , , Millennium Edition (ME), in the File menu. Windows NT® (SP ), Windows or Windows XP • ATM Light or Deluxe . or later (not required for Windows /Windows XP) • AdobePS printer driver . or later, if using Windows //ME with a PostScript printer • AdobePS printer driver .. or later, if using Windows NT with a PostScript printer • MB of RAM Note: Mac OS X, Windows 2000 and Windows XP (Home and Professional) provide native support for OpenType .otf fonts (as well as PostScript Type 1 fonts) and do not require ATM Light or the AdobePS printer driver. Additional Software Installation AdobePS Printer Driver Before using your OpenType .otf fonts, you may need If you are printing to a PostScript printer or to install the latest versions of the Adobe Type Man- creating PostScript print fi les (perhaps for ager Light so ware and the AdobePS printer driver, Adobe Acrobat Distiller), the AdobePS printer driver which are both available as free downloads from the replaces your standard Mac or Windows printer driver www.adobe.com website. and off ers several improvements. Installation of this driver requires a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) Adobe Type Manager (ATM) Light fi le for your printer, which allows the driver to con- Adobe® Type Manager® (ATM®) Light is a trol all of your printer’s features, such as optional paper system so ware component that automati- trays, enhanced imaging modes, and duplex (two-sided) cally generates high-quality screen font bitmaps from printing. More instructions are included in the Read Me PostScript® Type 1 or OpenType .otf outline font data. fi le that comes with the AdobePS so ware. With ATM, you can use Type 1 and OpenType fonts at any size, and you can also enable “font smoothing,” (anti- To download the latest AdobePS printer driver aliasing) which further improves the appearance of your for the Macintosh, point your browser to http:// fonts on-screen. ATM Light also allows you to print www.adobe.com/support/downloads/pdrvmac.htm 4 OpenType User Guide To download the latest AdobePS printer driver for Win- e fonts are now installed and will appear in the font dows, point your browser to http://www.adobe.com/ menus of your applications. OpenType fonts installed in support/downloads/pdrvwin.htm Mac OS X Classic will also appear in the font menus of native and Carbon applications Note: Mac OS X, Windows 2000 and Windows XP include a native PostScript printer driver that supports Mac OS X native OpenType .otf fonts. Mac OS X has built-in support for OpenType .otf fonts. You do not need to install ATM Light to use fonts in the Installing OpenType .otf Fonts Mac OS X native environment, only for the Classic envi- All the information required for OpenType fonts is con- ronment. tained in a single fi le with an “.otf” suffi x at the end of Fonts installed under the Mac OS X native environment the fi lename. is font fi le is a cross-platform fi le, and will only by available to carbon and native applications can be installed on both the Macintosh and Windows running in OS X (not classic applications). Depending platforms. on how they are installed, they can be accessed by (a) Installing on Mac OS any user or (b) just by an individual user. Using your fonts on Mac OS . to . or Mac OS X 1 Before installing your OpenType fonts, quit all active “Classic” requires the presence of ATM Light . or later applications. (.. for Mac OS X Classic). Mac OS X has built-in sup- 2 port for OpenType fonts with carbon or native applica- Locate the folder that contains the OpenType fonts tions, and only requires ATM Light for “classic” apps. you want to install. If you are running Mac OS X, decide if you want to If you have purchased your fonts fonts online, they install fonts into both the Classic environment and the will have been decompressed to a folder on your OS X native environment, or only for carbon/native hard drive.
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