Apple’s site, apple.com has a page where new features of Mac OsX 10.5, Leopard are explained. I’ve just started to gaze through this stuff. 300+ new or changed features is more than enough to justify the upgrade. It is, by the way, much cheaper to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard than lets say from Windows … Read More
Year: 2007
Real World Font Management with FontExplorer X
Font Management applications are the best help one can have to get control over the fonts on the mac, both the fonts you actually want to work with and the fonts the System needs to run. Few applications are available to do this task, FontAgent Pro, Suitcase Fusion and Linotype FontExplorer X. Each of them … Read More
The Making of Thorn, thorn, Eth, eth
However there are many cases where the characters are not drawn right or even that the font designer may have chosen to make the characters in a style that is unacceptable for use. … Be careful because I and P don’t always have the same ascender thickness like in this example. þ thorn The most common way to make a thorn is to add the ascender of a b to a p .