Thursday, November 28, 2002

One of the first tasks in designing the font technology foundation of Mac OS X was to ensure that the architecture led to a high performance system and was flexible enough to support a world of varied font formats. ATS, the Apple Type Solution, centrally manages font management and rendering on behalf of the system and applications, resulting in a memory efficient and fast platform for text display. It is very flexible and can support major font formats including: PostScript Type 1 - including double-byte formats used for non-Roman languages Multiple Master - Jaguar supports any instances already defined in the font TrueType - standard Mac resource based TrueType fonts TrueType (Windows) - cross platform font files with the .ttf extension OpenType - improved PostScript format for Unicode fonts System fonts - TrueType fonts packaged as .dfont files where all font info is stored in the data fork   10:51:09 AM

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