Gary Hustwit has directed the film Helvetica: "Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives." Web Reference: Helvetica – A […]
Fonts…
It’s funny how when you are writing/developing course material, you realise you’re never 100% certain about the facts 🙂 and I hate writing things down when I’m not 100% sure. So, here I found myself — the Adobe Certified Expert and print specialist — digging back into the archives, looking more in-depth at font embedding […]
PDFs in a time capsule
ISO 19005-1 Document Management – Electronic document file format for long-term preservation, Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1), p. 11 states that font subsetting is permissable as long as "glyph definitions for all characters" are referenced within the file. And — as if file size is important for archival purposes — further notes that […]