re atm or truetype which to choose in article apr microsoft com davidgl microsoft com david glenn writes again not true the characters in a tt or type font depend on the maker if someone converts a type font to tt they ll only get the characters in the font of orgin tt allows for much more flexibility in this area as well you can have thousands of glyphs in a tt font file mac ps windows unicode char set and use the characters appropriate for the particular platform you are running the font on well yes both type and truetype fonts can contain lots of characters and in both cases plain text fonts will be reencoded to windows ansi in windows and to mac standard roman encoding on the mac no difference there between t and tt and as for fonts with thousands of glyphs right know these are a liabiliaty rather than a great new thing reason is that a font with characters is very large and if you can only access of them you are paying a heavy price in downloading time and printer storage and at the moment there is only one program of that uses partial font downloading for instance all or our fontpack tt fonts have the mac windows char set in them the metrics of the fonts are such that if the font is brought over to the mac the user will have access to the full mac char set yes and t text fonts all have the iso adobe character set which is a superset of windows ansi and macintosh standard roman enocding the question is whether you can get at the glyphs in windows for example you cannot get at the ligatures fi anfd fl both t and tt even though a font may very well have them and while it is somewhat painful to reencode a type font and to create a new windows metric file pfm for it there are utilities out there to allow you do this how do i reencode a truetype font how can i get at the fi and fl ligatures in windows or on the mac are there utilities that make it possible to circumvent the hard wired windows ansi encoding regards a east harmony road bob niland suite internet rjn csn org fort collins co compuserve berthold k p horn cambridge massachusetts usa
