OpenType edition of Font Folio bridges Mac and Windows

According to the company the new collection allows for richer linguistic support and more advanced typographic control in any print, web or dynamic media project. OpenType fonts are natively supported in Mac OS X, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Adobe and Microsoft Corporation created the OpenType font format to improve cross-platform document portability and simplify font management by introducing one font file. Creative professionals benefit from extended foreign language support and the inclusion of expert typographic glyphs, such as small caps, old style figures and swashes, in many OpenType fonts.

The Adobe Font Folio product includes a selection of Adobe Original typefaces as well as ornament and symbol fonts, and a versatile collection of handwriting fonts. Font Folio contains several sets of "Opticals" fonts, which include separate, optimised font designs for use at different point sizes, such as when typesetting captions, text, subheads and display headlines. In addition, many OpenType fonts contain an expanded glyph repertoire that may include expert typographic glyphs, such as small capitals, old style figures, swashes, proportional and lining numerals, stylistic alternates, titling capitals, non-standard ligatures and fractions.

Customers with international publishing requirements can take advantage of the Adobe Font Folio [OpenType Edition] product's extensive language support and the OpenType format's use of Unicode, a platform-independent text-encoding standard that supports virtually all of the world's languages and provides better text representation and transport. Standard OpenType fonts from Adobe cover most Western languages and many OpenType ‘Pro’ fonts support central and eastern European languages, as well as Greek and Cyrillic. Adobe Font Folio [OpenType Edition] contains a collection of Japanese fonts in OpenType format.

OpenType fonts from Adobe can be used in documents alongside existing PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.


Older operating systems obtain OpenType support through Adobe Type Manager (ATM) Light, a free system software component download available at www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/main.html OpenType fonts are also supported by leading font management applications.