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InDesign How-To: Using OpenType
OpenType fonts give page designers greater typographic flexibility than ever before. Now with a new onslaught of OpenType fonts coming onto the scene and with support for the format built into Adobe InDesign 2.0, it's a good time to learn how to use them in your page layout.
Written on September 26, 2002
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OpenType is a new font format that gives you access to thousands of special characters within your page layout or illustration -- providing the application supports the format. One application that does support OpenType is InDesign 2.0. With this software combination you can automatically insert ligatures and special accents without trudging off to specialty helper apps -- or worse, through laborious trial and error.
And now that Adobe is releasing all its PostScript fonts in the OpenType format, it's a good time learn how to use OpenType fonts in InDesign as seen in this tutorial from Adobe.
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Just don't do it.
Please. Is there anyone out there who does not recognize that this is just a way to make everyone repurchase their fonts?
I have hundreds of fonts representing 15 years of purchases. I will not be spending thousands of dollars to replace them!
Considering how many "professionals" still don't have a good understanding of leading and kerning, is it really time to introduce ligatures and accents?
Please don't buy into this.