Member pit… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Hello, i can't understand the substantial differences between postscipt type1 & truetype fonts! Can anybody help me?(pleeeeeease) Link to comment
Member alt… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Are you looking for the practical differences from a user's POV, or the internal technical differences, or both? Link to comment
Member Kar… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 These Wikipedia entries should get you started: Postscript Type 1 TrueType Also, this infographic by Ralf Herrmann breaks down some of the differences very clearly. Link to comment
Member pit… Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 the internal technical differences Link to comment
Member The… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 the internal technical differences Internally, there are hardly bytes that are the same. The file format is different, the character map system is different, the looking up of glyphs is different, and the encoding of individual glyphs itself is vastly different. You need to know anything concrete? Locate Apple's The TrueType Font File (a Microsoft Word document! How quaint!) and Adobe's Type 1 Format. Read them both, and you'll see how very little they actually have in common. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 In terms of designing glyph outlines, to me the only essential difference is that PS uses cubic béziers while TT uses quadratic. hhp Link to comment
Member pat… Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 only the technology difference. Link to comment
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