Milwaukee: March 15, 2005
Tom Petrillo began his interesting discussion of OpenType fonts, with an explanation of their basic characteristics.
PDF: Apple Computer: Using and Managing Fonts in Mac OS X
PDF: Apple Computer: Advanced Typography with Mac OS X
PDF: Extensis: Font Management in Mac OS X
PDF: Sells Printing Company: Managing Fonts in Mac OS X
New York City: February 17, 2005
This meeting of the New York City InDesign® user group was titled “Fonts and Foibles.” Ilene Strizver, author of Type Rules!, spent 45 minutes offering a taste of what she calls “gourmet typography," and Caleb Clauset launched into his “Think Different About Fonts” presentation.
Milwaukee: January 13, 2005
InDesign power-user tips and critical keyboard shortcuts for paragraph, character, and nested type styles.
PDF: Cathy Palmer's Super-Powered Type Styles
Sydney: September 29, 2004
Steve Nichols from Lasers Edge opened the evening by demonstrating the powerful typography controls and features of InDesign.
Minneapolis: August 12, 2004
PDF: Keith Gilbert’s OpenType Fonts
Seattle: May 11, 2004
Thomas Phinney of Adobe Systems gave a great presentation on OpenType technology and typography.
Boston: February 3, 2004
Thomas Phinney of Adobe Systems gave an entertaining and informative explanation of the inner workings of OpenType.
PDF: Adobe InDesign and Advanced Typography
PDF: Unicode
PDF: OpenType and Top Issues
New York City: July 14, 2003
Ron Hall, of Creative Solutions Group, part of the Apple Consultants Network, expounded upon the mysteries of the system’s multiple fonts folders. Dave Saunders, of TinyURL.com, talked about other font issues specific to InDesign.
PDF: Mac OS X Fonts
PDF: Installation of Fonts
PDF: Using and Managing Fonts in Mac OS X
PDF: OpenType User Guide for Adobe Fonts
Washington, D.C.: May 28, 2003
Thomas Phinney, of Adobe Systems and a font guru from San Jose, held the audience spellbound as he shared with the assembled publishing professionals insights into OpenType.
PDF: Adobe InDesign and OpenType
Atlanta: April 24, 2003
Bill Carberry, of PDF Experts, offered some insights into the mysteries of OpenType.
San Francisco: March 6, 2003
Steve Werner gave a great presentation on font types and a brief overview of the history of fonts. Harold Grey addressed how OpenType’s base in Unicode is a more reliable typographic experience. Harold Grey and Thomas Phinney also covered many of the fine typographic controls, including hanging punctuation and optical margin alignment, multiline composer, optical kerning, and the Insert Glyph palette.
PDF: Why Are Fonts Such a Problem?
