Introduction
Fonts are today pieces of software. There is a huge amount of work in a every single font that can’t be done without the proper know-how.
A complete font set (let’s say Garamond) requires years to be built and compiled. Behind every single character there are dozens of pathpoints, measurements, hint metadata, scripts.
In order to prevent fonts issues, many standards has been created and other has been adopted.
The strict respect of those standards (both from font publishers and from users) will results in 0% problems during the everyday work.
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To meet the right quality and usability, a font should be well designed and, at the same time, programmed with the right metadata that systems will use to compose the text stream.
Needless to say, free fonts cannot achieve this result and cannot guarantee stability.
CHILI Scenario
In order to get the highest quality and standard compatibility, the CHILI Publisher supports fonts that meets the following simple requisites:
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Font producers compile their fonts in different formats and standards.
For CHILI Publisher you have the option between “OpenType and OpenType TrueType”:
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In case a font is not available in OpenType
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