21 Stories by Sam Howard
I do a lot of work with fonts, and when I tell people this they often seem surprised – surely there can’t be that... Due to a recent problem with a font on OSX, I found myself investigating OSX’s font validator. It actually ships with one which is... Mark has previously written about how to edit PDF files by adding a second reference table, and Daniel made a whole series on making... It’s hard to put a label on VisualVM – it has a profiler, but it’s more than that. It also has tools for tracking... The PDF format has been around for at least 20 years now, and throughout that time it’s continued to add the latest and greatest... One part of writing a PDF converter is making sure that the fonts embedded within the PDF are accessible to the target platform. For...
