Rotis: Adobe Fonts - How to install on my pc

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I am wondering how to add adobe fonts such as rotis as I am not sure where on my pc to load.

[mikmik]

I happenned across this site, it looks promising, even though it is primarily a commercial site

http://www.fonts.com/fontent/fontent...q=2K-XP&fmt=ps

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I think that there is a Microsoft site that is about the best resource on the net for using and installing fonts on Windows.
So, here it is :O) - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.mspx


Okay, lets go all out :O)

OpenType
OpenType™ is a new cross-platform font file format developed by Adobe Systems and Microsoft Corporation that can include an expanded character set and special layout features for richer linguistic support and advanced typographic control. OpenType fonts use a single font file for all of their outline, metric, and bitmap data, making file management simpler. In addition, the same font file works on Macintosh and Windows computers, improving cross-platform portability of documents.
Based on the extensible TrueType® file format, OpenType fonts can support either TrueType or PostScript® font data and new typographic layout features. OpenType fonts containing TrueType data have a .ttf or .ttc suffix in the font file name, while PostScript-based OpenType fonts have an .otf suffix. The file names for Adobe's OpenType fonts, such as “NuevaStd-Light.otf”, are also more user-friendly and descriptive than most Type 1 or TrueType file names.

At the heart of OpenType is Unicode, a platform-independent, international multi-byte character encoding that covers virtually all of the world’s languages. As a result, OpenType fonts make multilingual typography easier by allowing multiple language character sets in one font. All Adobe OpenType fonts include the standard range of Latin characters used throughout the western world, and several international characters, including the euro currency (€), “estimated”, and litre symbols.

Adobe OpenType “Pro” fonts add a full range of accented characters to support central and eastern European languages, such as Turkish and Polish. Some of these fonts also contain Cyrillic and Greek character sets. Adobe also offers a range of Japanese OpenType fonts with expanded character sets. These fonts can be distinguished by the word “Pro,” which is part of the font name and appears in application font menus. OpenType fonts that do not contain central European language support are labeled “Standard,” and are designated by an “Std” suffix in the font menu names.

OpenType fonts may also contain up to 65,000 glyphs, unleashing exciting typographic capabilities. Many non-standard glyphs, such as oldstyle figures, true small capitals, fractions, swashes, superiors, inferiors, ornaments, titling letters, contextual and stylistic alternates, beginning and ending letterforms and a full range of ligatures may also be included in a single font. In the past, a typical Western PostScript font was limited to 256 glyphs, forcing users to install and manage two or more style-related fonts in order to access “expert” or other supplemental characters. OpenType significantly simplifies font management and the publishing workflow by ensuring that all of the required glyphs for a document are contained in one cross-platform font file throughout the workflow.

All Adobe OpenType fonts can be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts, can be printed to most output devices, and can be embedded in PDF files. OpenType fonts are natively supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and are compatible with other operating systems via ATM Light, a free system software component from Adobe. Once installed, almost all applications can work with OpenType fonts, though applications must incorporate specific support to take advantage of certain advanced typographic features of the “Pro” fonts.

For more information about OpenType, visit our OpenType information page.

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PostScript Type 1
Developed by Adobe Systems and first released in 1985, the PostScript Type 1 font format is an extension of the PostScript page description language that helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. One of the most popular scalable outline font technolgies, Type 1 has become a standard for professional publishing and graphic arts because of its reliability and the fact that it is supported by virtually all printers, service bureaus and output houses.
On the Macintosh platform, there are two components to a Type 1 font: a screen font suitcase that contains bitmapped screen fonts in specific point sizes and the font’s metric information and a printer font (also known as an outline font) that is used when printing. The printer font is also used by the operating system to create screen fonts for point sizes that are outside of the sizes contained in the screen font suitcase. (Most Type 1 fonts also ship with a third file, called an Adobe Font Metrics (.AFM) file, a text file that also contains the font’s metrics information. Unless your application specifically requires this file, and few applications do, you can discard this file.)

On Windows, Type 1 fonts consist of a PostScript Font Binary (.PFB) file, plus a corresponding PostScript Font Metrics (.PFM) file. (Some Type 1 fonts may ship with a .PFB, .AFM, and .INF file. Installing such fonts with the ATM control panel will create a .PFM file from the .AFM and .INF files.)

Western Type 1 fonts are considered single-byte fonts and are limited to 256 glyphs. As a result, end users must install separate, supplmental fonts in order to receive multi-lingual support, such as Cyrillic or central European language coverage, or advanced typographic capabilities, such as the use of small capitals, oldstyle figures or swashes.

In 1991, Adobe introduced an extension to the Type 1 format called “multiple masters” that allowed end users to create a whole range of high-fidelity font “instances” by interpolating between two master font extremes, such as light and black, along a design axis.

Though originally proprietary, the Type 1 font specification was publicly released by Adobe in 1991, which allowed other foundries and software tool manufacturers to easily create Type 1 fonts. It is estimated that there are close to 20,000 Type 1 fonts available in the market today from a variety of font foundries, design studios and individuals.

PostScript Type 1 fonts are natively supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and are compatible with other operating systems via ATM Light, a free system software component from Adobe.

PostScript Type 1 fonts use a series of mathematical formulas to describe the curves and straight lines of a font's glyphs. A series of “hints,” or instructions, are also added to the font that assist a rasterizer in “drawing” the font on a low-resolution printer or on screen. Type 1 fonts can be printed on PostScript printers and imagesetters, and they can also be output to non-Postscript printers, such as inkjets, using ATM Light or the native PostScript rasterizers built into select operating systems.

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TrueType
Created at Apple Computer, TrueType is another scalable outline font technology that is supported by most operating systems. First released by Apple with System 6.0.5 in 1991, the technology was subsequently licensed to Microsoft, who introduced TrueType support in the Windows 3.1 operating system. Microsoft and Apple have continued to develop the font technology and have released TrueType fonts with each new release of their operating systems.
On the Macintosh platform, most TrueType fonts are delivered in font suitcases that contain one or more outline fonts—identified by an “AAA” icon—that correspond to each font weight or style. On Windows, each outline font consists of one file with a “TT” icon that contains all of the font’s outline and metrics information. Although TrueType is natively supported on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, you cannot always use the same TrueType font file on both platforms, though Mac OS X now supports the use of Windows TrueType font files.

TrueType features an extensible table architecture that allows for additional information to be contained in the font. TrueType also allows for extensive hinting controls that direct the exact placement of pixels on screen when the operating system attempts to draw text. While this extensive hinting language is a plus, few TrueType fonts—outside of the core fonts that ship with the Mac and Windows OSs—fully exploit these hinting capabilities. In 1995, Microsoft released an extension to the TrueType format, called TrueType Open, that was later replaced by OpenType.

While both are scalable outline font formats, TrueType differs from PostScript-based fonts in that it that uses different mathematical expressions—qua expressions instead of cubic expressions—to represent the curves of a font’s letterforms. TrueType also employs a different hinting mechanism that puts much of the intelligence for screen drawing and printing to low-resolution printers in the font itself, as opposed to PostScript fonts, which use a simpler hinting model and rely on the intelligence of the font rasterizer.

All Adobe applications support TrueType fonts, and TrueType can be reliably printed to virtually all output devices, included high-end imagesetters that include PostScript Level 2 or higher page description language. TrueType can be used in documents alongside Type 1 fonts, but you should avoid using TrueType and Type 1 versions of fonts with the same name in the same document. TrueType fonts that contain digital signatures for verifying data authenticty are considered OpenType fonts, and are denoted by the black and green OpenType icon.

Basically, all you do with 'TTF' is navigate to this folder(in windowsXP, anyways) - C:\WINDOWS\Fonts - and just drag and drop the font file "rotis.ttf" or whatever, into the fonts folder, and it will auto install.
I haven't done it for a while, but this is how it works, I think. ;0]

HTH, ERJS

[mikmik]

Font properties extension, version 2.1

If you right click on a font file in Windows its basic properties are displayed. This extension adds several new property tabs to this properties dialog box. These include information relating to font origination and copyright, the type sizes to which hinting and smoothing are applied, and the code pages supported by extended character sets.

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