fonts

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

Should Type 3 Font support be dropped from the…

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...
Sam Howard
1 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

How do Browsers auto reverse the Right to left…

You might have encountered a situation where you tried to read from pdf or other text input streams and writing the raw data into...
suda
1 min read