InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources]

OpenType Font Support

The biggest advance in fonts in the past decade is the advent of OpenType fonts, a new font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft and introduced in 2000.

OpenType fonts have several advantages:

• They use a cross-platform format and store their data in a single file. The same font file can be used on either the Macintosh or Windows platforms.

• They use in an industry-standard double-byte encoding called Unicode which can support over 64,000 glyphs. As a result, a single font can now contain all the characters for several different languagesand also contain the glyphs used in fine typography.

• They support high quality typography through the use of standardized layout tables. This makes it possible for an Open Type-smart application like InDesign to automatically call out these typographic features without extra effort.

InDesign 2 comes with five OpenType font families: three Roman familiesAdobe Garamond Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, and Caflisch Script Proand two Japanese familiesKozuka Gothic and Kozuka Mincho. If these fonts aren't installed automatically, you can find them in the Goodies folder on the InDesign installation CD.

OpenType fonts work in in XPress, but you only get access to the first 256 characters, as though they were normal PostScript fonts. InDesign 2.0 gives access to all the glyphs of an OpenType font, which we also discuss in Chapter 51.