At 09:29 1/30/2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>- Are OpenType fonts currently implemented in any platform other than
>Windows?
'OpenType support' means a number of different things.
Support for the font file format and rasterisation of the TT or CFF
outlines is widespread, including Windows, OSX (native), earlier Mac
systems (CFF only, using ATM), and implementations of FreeType.
Support for individual OpenType Layout typographic features varies from
application to application.
Support for script shaping features and character-level pre-formatting,
e.g. for Indic scripts, is supported in Windows apps that use Uniscribe for
text processing, and I believe the FreeType developers have also been
working on Indic shaping although I am not sure if this has been released yet.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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