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- groundst
Maybe a font history person could help me on this one. What's the deal with incompatible fonts? Why not just make them all compatible? I went to purchase Friz Quadrata and if I wanted to have it for both PC and Mac I would have to pay twice. That's some BS!
- johndiggity0
it comes down to adobe wanting to charge a lisence fee for post script, and ms not wanting to pay and starting their own game.
os x pretty much lets you use whatever font you need though opentype is changing everything with a near universal format.
- Concrete0
Open type
- Baskerville0
apple was the first company to make a home printer with PostScript which meant people could print their own work for the first time at home, this was groundbreaking. All their fonts had to be compatible with PostSript technology and used adobe's type 1 fonts.
Then later apple invented truetype to get away from adobe, they liscened this to microsoft.
so apple pretty much started everything. Now both windows xp and osx can read truetype files fine.
Hopefully in the end though we'll all use the far superior opentype format which can store 1000s of character in one font.
- groundst0
So, I'm SOL if it's not offered in OpenType or TrueType?
Any good suggestions on where I can get this font (legit) for cheaper than $22.00 USD?
- Baskerville0
$22 is cheap for a font, don't skimp on things like fonts.
- ********0
agreed.
$22 is nothing.
- groundst0
Why shouldn't I shop around if I can find the same PS font for less? It's not like I'm skimping on a used car or something. The quality doesn't diminish with the less money I spend.
I've never purchased a font before, so I wasn't sure.
BTW, What's your story Baskerville? Are you a font history buff or something? You're very insightful.
- Baskerville0
my dissertation at uni was on the history of character sets, from guttenberg's first set of type up to Opentype and everything in between. It's about the only thing I know lots about.
Plus by my name you should tell that I'm interested in typography
- Typographica0
Friz Quadrata as OpenType will work on all platforms:
- go_st0
think of it this way, if you designed the typeface, or converted a non digital typeface into a digital font, would you give it away for free? or would you like to be paid for all your hard work that went into digitizing the typeface?
Before we had the computer and type was hand-set, the printshop would have to buy each individual font if they wanted a typeface family (font meaning one size and one weight per typeface, numerals and caps sold seperately)
Today, we can buy a typeface family for a mere couple hundred dollars (for the more expensive fonts) as opposed to paying the same price for a few sizes and weights of a typeface.
with this said, i hope you realize that $22.00 for a typeface is a steal.