There are three types of fonts, True Type is an outline font standard developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe’s Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on both the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
OpenType fonts are related to TrueType fonts, but have a greater basic character set, including small capitalization, an old-style numerals system, and more capable of detailing shapes, such as glyphs and ligatures. OpenType fonts easier to read and readable in all sizes and can be sent to any printer or other output device that is supported by Windows.
PostScript fonts (like Adobe type 1 & type 2 fonts are smooth, detailed, and of high quality and are good for printing, especially professional printing, for example books or magazines.

Fonts

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),...
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How are Embedded CMAP tables defined in a PDF…

Every glyf inside a PDF file can have a display value and a different extraction value. This is useful because often you need to...
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Why are CID fonts far more complicated than non-CID…

We get lots of emails asking about fonts so this articles tries to explain some of the potential issues. Loading fonts All fonts used...
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How does TrueType Hinting work?

TrueType hinting use a program inside the TrueType file to modify the outlines for fonts. This allows it to do clever things like optimise...
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Problems caused by Arial font in PDF files

Arial is a very popular font for use in PDF files. It is also one of the font families assumed to be present for...
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