• TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the...
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  • OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. Derived from TrueType, it retains TrueType's basic structure but adds many intricate data structures...
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  • needed] Examples of outline fonts include: PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 fonts, TrueType, OpenType and Compugraphic. The primary advantage of outline fonts...
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  • support for TrueType outline fonts through a freely available system extension, providing functionality similar to ATM. Apple provided TrueType outline files...
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  • Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings, all of them in TrueType font format packaged in executable files (".exe") for Microsoft Windows...
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  • typical for font editors. The OpenType cmap table can reference a maximum of 65536 glyphs. Font editors supporting TrueType hinting can do that either automatically...
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  • QuickDraw GX (redirect from TrueType GX)
    curve-drawing commands that had been lacking from QD, as well as introducing TrueType as its basic font system. While GX addressed many of the problems that...
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  • Wingdings (category Typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow (type designer))
    symbols in the Wingdings and Webdings fonts in Unicode 7.0. Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows from version...
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    version of Arial in a Type 1-compatible format. In 1990, Robin Nicholas, Patricia Saunders and Steve Matteson developed a TrueType outline version of Arial...
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    support commonly used font formats. Support for the commonly used TrueType and OpenType font formats has since been implemented in Safari 3.1, Opera 10...
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    hinting data, much of which was accomplished manually by type engineer Tom Rickner. In the TrueType font format, released in 1991 by Apple Inc, hinting invokes...
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  • PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts. SFNT stands for spline font or scalable font, and was originally developed for TrueType fonts...
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    Apple's TrueType GX font variations. The technology was adapted to OpenType as OpenType variable fonts (OTVF) in version 1.8 of the OpenType specification...
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    (1984 by Susan Kare), sans-serif font inspired by Helvetica. Converted to TrueType format and still installed on Macs. Espy Sans (1993, Apple eWorld, Apple...
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    and Wingdings 2. Webdings, a TrueType dingbat font designed at Microsoft and published in 1997 Wingdings, a TrueType dingbat font assembled by Microsoft...
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    BSD-like license and the GPL. FreeType supports a number of font formats, including TrueType, Type 1, and OpenType. The FreeType rendering engine was started...
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  • manufacturers. However, most of the major commercial programs support OpenType and TrueType fonts. Note: Information on supported fonts is not readily available...
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    capabilities improved, Apple commissioned the type foundry Bigelow & Holmes to create a vector-based TrueType version. The typeface is named after the U...
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    font to TrueType format using FontForge. Paul Hardy adjusted these scripts to handle combining characters (accents, etc.) for the latest TrueType versions...
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  • Format (WOFF) is a font format for use in web pages. WOFF files are OpenType or TrueType fonts, with format-specific compression applied and additional XML...
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  • design their own system, TrueType, around 1991. Immediately following the announcement of TrueType, Adobe published ”Adobe type 1 font format”, a detailed...
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    restaurant, and has an asymmetric structure suggesting a child's handwriting. A TrueType version of Kristen is shipped with Microsoft Publisher 2000. Comic Sans...
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    Microsoft's ClearType website Fondu – program to convert (and separate) Mac OS X dfont data fork files to TrueType, OpenType, Type 1, and Glyph Bitmap...
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  • to execute malware components of Duqu. Currently one flaw is known, a TrueType-font related problem in win32k.sys. Operation Duqu is the process of only...
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    OpenType is a superset of TrueType kern tables are still supported for TrueType fonts packed as OpenType; however, PostScript-based (CFF) OpenType fonts...
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    PostScript (category Dynamically typed programming languages)
    their own system, TrueType, around 1991. Immediately following the announcement of TrueType, Adobe published the specification for the Type 1 font format...
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  • for the Apple Macintosh computer. Susan Kare designed it. An official TrueType version was never made, and Athens was rendered obsolete with the arrival...
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    bitmap and TrueType versions for various platforms. Originally developed as shareware by Andrew Welch for the Apple Macintosh in TrueType format, ProFont...
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    system supporting installation of "exe" or ".sit.hqx" files and supporting TrueType fonts. The downloadable files are still available legally from third-party...
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  • compression (LZ compression, part of Agfa's MicroType Express). Like OTF fonts, EOT supports both Postscript and TrueType outlines for the glyphs. Simply including...
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