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Web fonts: A quick introduction to Wrapper and Glyph…

I was planning to write about WOFF 2.0 this week, and wanted to link to a previous article I’d written which explains the structure...
Sam Howard
1 min read

Top 4 problems in PDF CFF Fonts (and we…

  One of the most common of the many font formats PDFs support is the Compact Font Format (CFF, also known as Type 2)...
Sam Howard
1 min read

Why are fonts so complicated?

I do a lot of work with fonts, and when I tell people this they often seem surprised – surely there can’t be that...
Sam Howard
2 min read

6 tools for making fonts work in browsers

One part of writing a PDF converter is making sure that the fonts embedded within the PDF are accessible to the target platform. For...
Sam Howard
3 min read

How to use Type 1 fonts on the Web

Back in the 1980s, Adobe saw that the existing methods of displaying text digitally – bitmapped fonts – were not up to the task...
Sam Howard
2 min read

Table order in OTF fonts

As part of our TrueType to OpenType font conversion (we need this for PDF to HTML5 conversion to ensure fonts display on all browsers),...
Mark Stephens
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