Search results for: fonts

3 Reasons why we don’t convert Type 1 glyphs…

As we’ve discussed before, PDF files can contain a whole bunch of different fonts, but in the end most of them come down to two...
Sam Howard
1 min read

What is font hinting? The basics explained.

In the early days of fonts, each glyph was stored as a bitmap at a range of sizes. Drawing it was a simple case...
Sam Howard
1 min read

Three Font terminology complications explained

Everyone knows a bit about fonts, but understanding them in more detail is a bit of a niche subject. Niche subjects tend to come...
Sam Howard
1 min read

Using OS X’s font validator

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...
Sam Howard
1 min read

iOS and HTML5: Gotcha with Absolute Positioning

One of the aims of our PDF to HTML5 converter and all of it’s various view modes (all 9 of them) was to make...
Lyndon Armitage
4 min read