Re: inDesign2
Re: inDesign2
- Subject: Re: inDesign2
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 15:14:54 +0200
Ryan Thrash <email@hidden> wrote:
>it's text-handling engine far surpasses
>Quark and it's native OS X right now. Optical margin alignment for
>paragraphs is a definite thing of beauty.
Optical margin alignment came out of the sfnt format for GX (for both
outline formats, PostScript and TrueType, if the font had the necessary
tables), and was incorporated into the open standards OpenType format.
Like kerning OMA did not exist in cold set which lived into the late
1970s (cross-font kerning was not supported at the font level in Type 1
so one might argue that kerning for full Roman font families started in
1994). The line layout engine in InDesign supports OMA for non-OT
fonts, and it's a multi-line composing engine where GX was a single
line composing engine. IMO InDesign is the application which currently
best supports both of the extended and enhanced formats which came out
of GX, snft smart fonts and ICC profiles. You don't need a fast Mac,
OpenType fonts and ICC profiling software to use it, but it shines if
you do. (Which is not to say that letting a smart font loose on a
layout without bridling adds to the quality of the layout.)
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